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The term Malay custom or “adat Melayu” is often confused or misunderstood to mean merely the habit, usage and the tradition of the Malay people. This is largely untrue. Custom in the days gone by was the institution whose laws and usage regulated the social, political and constitutional pattern of the government of the day. Those laws were expressed in hallowed maxims of great antiquity.
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Buxbaum, D.C. (1968). Malay Customary Law and the Family. In: Buxbaum, D.C. (eds) Family Law and Customary Law in Asia. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-6216-8_10
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