The shares are known. The title cannot express them.
WHERE IT STICKS
Nobody is confused about the arithmetic. Anyone can compute six equal portions. The problem is that a single indivisible title has no way to carry them, so every transaction needs unanimity from a group that grows each generation.
- Heir 11/6Bogor
- Heir 21/6Bogor
- Heir 31/6Jakarta
- Heir 41/6Kalimantan
- Heir 5deceased3 children
- Heir 6deceased5 children
Each fraction is real in law and unusable in practice. There is no object an heir can hold, sell, or pledge that corresponds to their share.
- 7In Bogor, reachable
- 5Elsewhere in Java, needs notice
- 3Outside the province
- 4No current address
Every signature must land on the same document. Four of the nineteen have no address anyone holds, so the count that matters is not nineteen. It is zero.
One object, many holders
The certificate is one thing. It can be transferred or it can sit. There is no version of it that represents one heir's portion separately from the rest.
Unanimity is the default
Any dealing requires every heir present and willing on the same day. One absent sibling is enough to stop everything indefinitely.
The party grows
Each heir who dies replaces themselves with their own heirs. The number of signatures required only ever increases.
Informal sales make it worse
A portion sold decades ago with only a witness to confirm it leaves a claim nobody can locate and nobody can extinguish.