Sri Lanka / Ceylon: The land council (Dutch East Indies) meeting in Colombo. Pencil and watercolour on paper, Jan Brandes, 1785-1786 (Rijksmuseum)

The land council was a judicial body in the Dutch East Indies. It was the ordinary court for both indigenous people in civil and criminal cases and for non-European foreigners in criminal cases.

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