<![CDATA[Most studies on marital property in the archipelago's customs, such as pick-up money in Pariaman or money in Bugis-Makassar, place the male as the giver of property to the woman. This article raises the opposite pattern, namely the tradition of meli uhang bupangkat in Siulak Deras Village, Gunung Kerinci District, Kerinci Regency, which requires the woman to prepare a certain amount of property for her future husband, with the amount determined by the social status or position of the man. The article is compiled from field research based on interviews, observations, and documentation of customary and religious elements in the village, with an empirical juridical approach and legal anthropology. Three main findings are obtained. First, this tradition takes place through five interlocking stages, from Batuwek to Baralek, so that the handover of property becomes a condition for the sustainability of the proposal, not just a complement to the reception. Second, the direction of the granting of property is different from the dominant pattern in similar traditions in Sumatra and Sulawesi, thus placing Kerinci as a variant that has not been widely discussed in the literature of marriage 'urf. Third, both the traditional elite and the religious elite affirm this tradition as a custom that does not contradict Islamic law because it does not touch the harmony and conditions of marriage, but the inauguration goes hand in hand with the recognition of the biased economic burden on women's families. This article concludes that the qualification of 'urf sahih for this tradition needs to be read side by side with the principle of maslahah, so that normative validity does not close the evaluation of its social impact on the party who bears the burden.]]>
