From the Pages of the Defter (ص 226)

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From the Pages of the Defter (ص 226)

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386 When the court case took
garden in the village, two dunams in size, valued at 1,000 kurus.
place two decades later, he was blind and unfit for travel, so a representative of the court
was appointed to go to Idhna to take his testimony about the land principally in his name in
the tapu. His testimony was needed to clarify which parcel of the Salimt land had been
apportioned to Khalil’s father. As recorded into the court record, he said:
This land ... in Wadi al-Afranj in Jawrat Salim was registered in my name
and in the name of my extended family (hamula) at the time of the
apportioning (takhsis) of the tapu. We have the right to farm it according
to the tapu registry (daftar). And we divided this land, and to Muhammad
Salame was apportioned (khussat) this [parcel].
This division took place in the years following the Eml/ak survey.
The Bayt Kahil case: survival through mortgage
The third sharia court case in this study involves a mortgage sale in mid-February 1895 by
Bayt Kahil villagers of 39 of their olive trees and 320 dunams of the village’s 840 dunams in
- 387.
Jamrura.
The village of Bayt Kahil, estimated by the Palestinian Authority to have a
population of 8,350 in 2015, was comprised of just twenty-two residences in 1876, as well as
a village guesthouse and a mosque. Ten years after the court case to be discussed here, the
386 Esas-1 Emlak, entries #6141 and 6195.
387 HR 16 / 120 / 76 ( 20 Sha’ban 1312 / 16 February 1895).
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