From the Pages of the Defter (ص 42)

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From the Pages of the Defter (ص 42)

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are only part of the story and, cavaliering aside, if the Jarrars had hakk al-garar, ten years’
uncontested ownership on the land, or could have proven their ownership of the land by
one of a number of possible avenues that, by law, remained open to them, they could have
contested someone else’s registration of their lands.*? Further, by law, there should have
been local families on the tapu commissions charged with the compiling of land registries,
the yoklama commissions. One wonders what really happened.
Third, and finally, this study does not argue that all or even most Palestinian villagers
and city-dwellers registered their properties with the tapu as soon as they were able to, or
even when the yoklama commissions went from locale to locale. An investigation of yoklama
tapu registers would more accurately address this.
This study does argue, however, that the history is more complex than has been
realized. In 1876 by all indications it appears that the overwhelming majority of villagers in
Hebron registered the overwhelming majority of their properties with the emlak commission
and assumed responsibility to pay the new property tax, which was charged uniformly on all
property at a rate of 0.004 percent of its assessed value. They did not evade the commission.
They did not fear conscription. Or taxes.
“8 Meltem Tokséz found many such cases of contestation took place in the Cukurova region of southern
Turkey in the 1870s. “Modernisation in the Ottoman Empire: The 1858 Land Code and Property Regimes
from a Regional Perspective”, in Elias Kolovos, ed., Halcyon Days in Crete Vill: Ottoman Rural Societies
and Economies(Crete University Press, 2015). | am grateful to the author for kindly sharing with mea
pre-publication copy of her article. This book was being published as this dissertation neared its
completion and was not yet available in the United States.
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