The Burgerlijk Wetboek — the Netherlands Civil Code, as received in the Netherlands Indies — served D. W. N. de Boer as the point of contrast against which the Atjehnese law of real security was defined.
Use in the description of Atjehnese security rights
De Boer noted that land encumbered with an Atjehnese hypotheek fell to the money-lender in its entirety, either on the expiry of the agreed term or on non-payment of the stipulated interest, just as with the indigenous pledge (gala) — and thus not merely, in the words of the Burgerlijk Wetboek, “om daaruit het hem competeerende te verhalen,” in order to recover out of it what was due to him.
The same contrast governed his description of the gala: the Atjehnese pledge differed from the Western law of pledge in that, after the expiry of the term of redemption, the whole of the pledged object remained with the pledgee, who was not confined to selling it and restoring the surplus to the pledgor.
See Also
Source
Het recht op den grond in Atjeh, by D. W. N. de Boer, dated Scheveningen, November 1931, pp. 59-80. Offprint DLP-141, Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde, ‘s-Gravenhage; Bibliotheek KITLV accession 0060 4460 60 081470 428.