Eeang male was the Atjehnese term recorded by D. W. N. de Boer for the proceeds of the goods left by a deceased person, out of which the ghafan — the funeral costs appropriate to his rank and station — were defrayed before the residue of an unadministered estate was transferred by the oeléëbalang to the bait ul-mâl.
Context
The term appears in De Boer’s account of the treatment of estates left by persons dying without heirs and by deceased strangers, a matter on which he insisted that no adat-lawful rule entitled the oeléëbalang to annex the land for himself, whatever the practice of many zelfbestuurders (self-governing rulers) might be.
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.