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He who turns from the law of the Netherlands to the law of the Dutch East Indies enters a new world.

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  1. [Act No. 2 of 1854, replaced in 1925 by the so-called Indische Staatsregeling (Act No. 327/1925, Wet op de Staatsinrichting van Nederlandsch-Indië), both enacted by the Dutch parliament — Ed.]

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  2. [Van Vollenhoven’s references were often exhaustive. For the purpose of this publication only a representative sample has been selected from the long list to be found in his Adatrecht, Vol. I, p. 6. — Ed.]

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  3. RNI 68(1897):299, 307; IG (1902)I:42ff.; Carpentier Alting (1902:88).

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  4. MZg 49(1905):236f.

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  5. Snouck Hurgronje (1893:16, 386; 1894:304, cf. 307 and 1893:374) — the English translation (1960) gives ‘adat law’ —; 1903:55 (cf. 318); Nederburgh (196:71); Juynboll (1903:9, 223); Scheuer (1904:24).

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  6. In the circular letter of the Secretary of Justice [Batavia] d.d. 9/8/1904 — see also p. [35, above]; in two places in the preliminary reports of the Lower House on the previously mentioned bill to amend sections 75 and 109 of the Regeringsreglement (BI. 1904–5, 121 No. 12:87, col. 1 & 2); and finally in the explanatory memorandum on the bill dealing with the training of civil officers for the Indies (Bl. 1905–6, 226, No. 3).

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Holleman, J.F. (1981). Adat, Adat Law, Native Law. In: Holleman, J.F. (eds) Van Vollenhoven on Indonesian Adat Law. Koninklijk Instituut Voor Taal-, Land- En Volkenkunde. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-5878-9_1

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