The pageue (Atjehnese; Malay pagar) was the fence or enclosure by which a cultivator in Atjeh completed the marking of his occupation of cleared land, and whose remains served afterwards as evidence of earlier cultivation.
In the law of occupation
Occupation of waste land was indicated first by corner stakes joined by a rintisan, and in a further stage by complete afpaling — total enclosure — the pageue. Erection of the fence was thus the visible completion of appropriation.
In the law of proof
In disputes over land said to have been previously cultivated, the remains of an earlier pageue counted among the visible traces on which a claimant had to be able to point. Where the ground in question was fit only for laying out a garden or ladang, a plaintiff asserting prior use had to point, together with his witnesses, either to trees or shrubs surviving from an earlier crop or to the remnants of a former pageue. Where no such remains could be discerned outside the gampong, and only a single isolated tree stood on the disputed ground, recourse was formerly had to the haq thilangkob, the right of the felling-length.
In garden contracts
The pageue was also a cost item in mawaih contracts over gardens: the party providing the land customarily furnished the bibit, the material and the labour costs for laying out the pageue, together with a pangkaj in advance, while the other party contributed only his bodily strength.
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.