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.
First page of the new Sulu Code in the Sulu dialect
Photo by Martin. (About one-half original size.)
Second page of the new Sulu Code in the Sulu dialect
Photo by Martin. (About one-half original size.)