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Malay customary law is called adat, a word borrowed from the Arabic. Adat, in general, means right conduct; and in common usage, it stands for a variety of things all connected with proper social behaviour.1 Thus it will connote rules of etiquette and the ceremonies prescribed for a particular occasion, such as marriage, as well as those customs which have “legal consequences.”2 It is in this last sense that the word is generally used in this paper.
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Buxbaum, D.C. (1968). The Nature of Malay Customary Law. In: Buxbaum, D.C. (eds) Family Law and Customary Law in Asia. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-6216-8_2
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