Kedudukan Perempuan dalam Hukum Waris Adat Batak Toba
Customary law is the law of life (living low) that grow and develop in the midst of the community in accordancewith the development of society. Customary law who live in midst of ethnic Indonesia is very strategic to be knownand understood by law enforcement officials, legal observers and guidance in applying the appropriate legal andfair for Indonesian society. The common law does not give the right role and the same degree between men andwomen in life, social, culture, political, economic and domestic life and marriage property and inheritance.Landing directly above the law would cause problems among indigenous peoples, especially the indigenous peopleembrace patrilinieal or matrilineal kinship system, such as that experienced by the Batak people who mbracepatrilineal kindship systems knows in Toba Batak society is patrilineal system, which through the male lineage andis the next generation of his parents while girls not the generation of their parents, as a result of this system is veryinfluential on the position of girls in matters of inheritance.