. Facts and fancies about Java . llotted to another memberof the community. Disobedience to the com-mands of the village authorities is punishableby forfeiture of the right of occupation. In most districts, this communal right alter-nates with private proprietorship. According to the ancient custom, whichhas been ratified by the Colonial Regulat-ions, whosoever, of his own free will, re-claims a piece of waste ground, by that actacquires the possession of the same, and theright to transmit it to his heirs, the here-ditary individual right, as the legal termis. Any native, desirous to obtaia la
. Facts and fancies about Java . llotted to another memberof the community. Disobedience to the com-mands of the village authorities is punishableby forfeiture of the right of occupation. In most districts, this communal right alter-nates with private proprietorship. According to the ancient custom, whichhas been ratified by the Colonial Regulat-ions, whosoever, of his own free will, re-claims a piece of waste ground, by that actacquires the possession of the same, and theright to transmit it to his heirs, the here-ditary individual right, as the legal termis. Any native, desirous to obtaia land onthese terms, can apply for permission to theGrovernment, which, having taken the placeof the ancient Sultans, is considered as the„Sovereign of the Soil. This permission isnever refused. So that, under the communalregime as under the system of hereditaryindividual ownership, anyone who has thewUl to work is sure of being able to earn asufficiency for himself and his family. Thereneed be no unemployed: there are no paupers. Native nobleman and his wife. IN THE DESSA 283 in our sense of the word. It should be added,that the right of usufruct under the systemof communal possession, can be convertedinto that of hereditary individual the inherited communistic sentiment isso strongly developed in the people of thedessa, that they but rarely, if ever, availthemselves of the facihties, which the lawoffers them in this respect; they prefer thatthe community should own the soil. As might be expected the principle ofsolidarity which pervades these laws andcustoms, manifests itself even more stronglyin the domestic life of the dessa-folk. The ties of kinship—though not those ofraarriage—are much respected by are so absolutely sure of the loveand filial piety of their children, that theyoften, as they grow older, abandon all theirproperty to them, content to Uve for theremainder of their days as their sons anddaughters pensioners. And even the mostdista
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