Selective Judicial Competence
The Cirebon-Priangan Legal Administration, 1680-1792
1st Edition
Published on 31. May 2018
185 pages
978-1-5017-1926-4 (ISBN)
Description
A major contribution to the understanding of Indonesian legal history. Hoadley shows how European colonialism skewed local legal institutions to serve colonial ends, and he discusses a fascinating series of cases that illustrate the evolution of this process.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Ithaca
United States
Publishing group
Cornell University Press
Edition type
Digital original
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978-1-5017-1926-4 (9781501719264)
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01/1994
Southeast Asia Program Publications, Cornell University
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Mason C. Hoadley
Content
- Cover
- Contents
- Preface
- Chapter 1. Colonialism, Procedural Law, and the Cirebon-Priangan Region
- Procedural Law
- Cirebon
- Priangan Lands
- Sources
- Case Record
- Organization and Time Span
- Section I. Preludes 1681-1706/08
- Chapter 2. Javanese Legal Competence
- Padu and Pradata in the Earliest Cirebon Texts
- Relevant Sources
- Undifferentiated Padu and Pradata Competence
- Distinctively Padu
- Distinctively Pradata
- Padu Affairs Handled by the Jaksa Pipitu
- Padu-The Economic Dimension
- Pradata Court of Princes and Jaksa
- Pradata-The Sovereignty Dimension
- 1681-1690-Continuity with an Exception
- Chapter 3. Court Performance to 1706
- Pradata
- Padu
- Padu or Pradata Competence?
- Javanese courts-Company Modifications
- Change in Venue = Change in Legal Principles
- Cirebon
- Administrative Settlements at Batavia
- Administrative Mediating in the Priangan
- Summary
- Section II. Dutch Take-Over 1706/08-1728
- Chapter 4. A Cirebon-Priangan Legal System 1706-1708
- Whither Company Rule?
- Resolution of 1706
- Pangeran Aria Cirebon
- Lack of Court Directive
- Resolution of 1708
- Padu Courts
- Pradata Courts
- Criminal" Courts
- Civil" Competence and Administrative Tendencies
- Rebirth of Javanese Justice?
- Section IIA. Failure of Padu Legal Procedure 1706-1728
- Chapter 5. Modification of Padu Legal Procedure 1706-1717
- Cirebon Residents
- Performance-Descriptions
- Performance-Actual Cases
- Regents' Disputes-Acceptability of Jaksa Authority
- Resolution of 1713
- "Self-Colonialization"
- Alienation of Javanese Litigants
- Company Criticism v Company Need
- Jaksa Success-Megat Sari v Suba Mangala, 1715
- Summary
- Chapter 6. Demise of Padu Procedure-the 1720s
- Van Tets' Innovations in Land Disputes
- Resolution of 1719
- Resolutions of 1720 and 1723
- Death of Pangeran Aria Cirebon
- Demise of the Jaksa Pipitu
- Resolution of 1727
- Tersmitten as a Patron of Law
- Undang Nitih Cirebon
- Van Tets and Tersmitten Innovations
- Section IIB. Pradata/Criminal Justice
- Chapter 7. Pradata Competence in "Criminal" Cases
- Pradata Judgment
- Paepen and Vagabonds
- Puspa Nagara Affair, 1717
- Kruger's Murder
- Pradata Responsibility-Associates
- Javanese Law in Company Service
- Trials before the Jaksa College
- Gobius' Case Against Puspa Nagara
- Jaksa Conception of the Case
- Summary
- Chapter 8. Pradata/Criminal Courts 1708-1728
- Executive Council
- Van Tets' Reform of 1718
- Jaksa on the Executive Council, 1718-1721
- Jaksa Responsibilities
- Case Examples
- Expropriation and Extortion
- Lim Hoeko's Murder
- Resident as Inquisitor
- Islam in Judicial Procedure-The Kalia Affair, 1720
- The Executive Council after 1721
- Gallows "Tempat Volewijk"
- Section III. Consolidation of the Legal System after 1728
- Chapter 9. Alternatives to Padu Competence 1728-1750
- Alternatives to Padu-Toyagama
- Alternatives to Padu-Administrative Decisions
- The Executive Council and the Legal Administration
- Ceribon Land Disputes-Chaos
- The Pinjalin Affair in Retrospect
- Chapter 10. Triumph of the Executive Courts 1750-1792
- Tumenggung-Patih
- Personnel Shift
- After Mid-Century
- Tumenggung in Criminal Affairs
- Tumenggung in Cirebon Land Disputes
- Bookish Law
- Admissible Evidence
- Tumenggung Authority
- Kali Andul Summary
- Tumenggung Authority to the Turn of the Century
- Chapter 11. Institutional Change
- Time Point
- Mechanisms
- Administrative Tendencies
- Causation
- Appendix I. Cirebon Royal House
- Appendix II. Dutch Residents in Cirebon
- Appendix III. Case Records
- Appendix IV. Contracts, Edicts, Resolutions, Memorie, Special Reports, and Javanese Legal Texts
- Sources Utilized
- Glossary
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- Index
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