From the Pages of the Defter (ص 210)

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From the Pages of the Defter (ص 210)

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The village-to-village registration-pattern variations are seemingly slight, yet they are,
nonetheless, important to note. In Sa’ir, for example, the list of properties is organized by
families. In other villages, like Tel al-Saff and Yatta, the village’s list was arranged and
recorded according to crops — all the fig trees, followed by the vegetable gardens, followed
by fields and olive-tree plots. In other villages, such as in Shuyukh, the list of properties was
ordered according to locations, first all the plots (olive trees, vineyards, and fields) in Sh’ib al-
360 (fields, vineyards, figs, and olives), Kan‘an (olives,
Faris, followed by those in Wadi al-Hrha
figs, fields, vegetable gardens, and vineyards), and etc. These variations suggest that the
Ottoman surveyors heading the Em/ak survey committee were flexible in their survey
methodology in order to win the much-needed cooperation of the populace so that the most
complete registration of properties and equitable evaluation of property values could be
conducted.
But how far were they willing to bend? Or was this bending at all? Was it generally
permitted in the district, and elsewhere, to issue tapu certificates to property shareholders
who were not registered or otherwise noted as taxpayers? An examination of the case of co-
partnerships indicates that the answer is “yes”. Throughout the Hebron district one finds in
the Emlak survey evidence of joint partnerships of property, from houses to olive presses to
farmlands. This is not surprising; Islamic laws of inheritance facilitated the creation of intra-
360 dx yall ol 9: Hirha? Harha? Hurha? | could not locate this wadi.
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