Studies in Moro History, Law, and ReligionSaleeby, Najeeb M. (Najeeb Mitry)
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Studies in Moro History, Law, and Religion
Saleeby, Najeeb M. (Najeeb Mitry)
Law -- Philippines; Mindanao Island (Philippines) -- History; Muslims -- Philippines
Sec. 4. Any person who makes a find shall make it known to the public,
or bring it to the governor, or return it to its owner. If this is
not done, and the find is not submitted to the governor within seven
days, the case shall be regarded as robbery and the finder shall be
fined seventy pesos, to be paid to the treasury. The same rule shall
govern similar cases that occur out in the country or on the sea,
except that the fine shall be equally divided between the governor
and the treasury. The share that belongs to the treasury shall be
intrusted to the governor for safe-keeping and future payment to the
treasury. Any dishonesty committed in this matter will be a sin that
results in loss both in this world and in the world to come.
Article X
All subordinate officers of state are hereby enjoined to exercise all
care and justice in their judgments and to adhere with all devotion
to the seven articles of Mohammedan law.
In case any complainant appeals to one of you from the decision
of another authority, do not accept the appellant's statement and
render your decision without inquiring well about the case from the
previous authority who judged it. In case you find the decision of that
authority wrong, do not be ready and quick to blame and criticise him,
but try to act in conformity and union.
In case you find his decision right, bring both the appellant and the
appellee to the panglima. If the panglima does not furnish a solution,
he shall bring them to the sultan, together with the authority from
whose decision the appeal was made and the authority to whom the
appeal was made.
If the authority to whom they appeal does not investigate or inquire
from the authority from whom they have appealed, his decision shall
be null and void.
Any person who exercises the right to judge without authority from
the sultan shall be fined one male unmarried slave.
All governors and their subjects shall abide by and aid in carrying
out all the articles and provisions of this code. Any person who does
not fulfill this duty will have all the curses and the calamities of
this world and of the world to come that befall the man who swears
falsely by the thirty parts of the Quran.
CHAPTER III
TWO SULU ORATIONS
THE SULU ORATION FOR THE FEAST OF RAMADAN
(Written in the six semicircles)
PRAISE BE TO GOD. GLORY BE TO GOD. THERE IS NO GOD BUT GOD. GOD
IS ALMIGHTY
This oration was finished at noon, Friday, the 29th of Rabi-el-Akhir,
in the year 1321 Hejira.
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