The legal and political jurisdiction of a Landheer was regulated by a mixture of laws and customary rules developed under the
Dutch East India Company. The landsheerlijke rechten of the landlords were very extensive in scope. Instead of the colonial government, it was the Landheer who – in his domain – nominated and remunerated the local government bureaucracy. The Landheer appointed the district heads or
Camat in his domain, other bureaucrats as he saw fit and, at the lowest level,
village heads who (in these particuliere landerijen) went by the title of
Mandor. Minor crimes committed by inhabitants of the particuliere landen were adjudicated and punished by courts set up by the Landheer. The Landheer was also responsible for the provision of education, health and other social services and public infrastructures for the inhabitants of the domain. As part of his landsheerlijke rechten, the Landheer was entitled to certain dues from his subjects, including
tjoekee or
contingent, which consisted of 20% of the
harvest from dependent holdings worked on by his tenant farmers. The Landheer also collected
padjeg, which was his predetermined share of his tenant farmers’ harvest, fixed for a certain period of time. The collection of all these dues was overseen by officials called
Potia, who were assisted by deputies called
Komitier. Also part of his landsheerlijke rechten was the Landheer's right to impose
kompenian or
corvee labour on his subjects, amounting to sixty days of unpaid work each year from his tenant farmers at times determined by the Landheer or his bureaucrats. Kompenian labour included work on
public infrastructures, such as roads or bridges on the domain, or work on the Landheer's own tanah kongsi. By Ommelanden custom, tenant farmers were only allowed to harvest their crops after receiving the Landheer's permission. ==List of Landheeren==