From the Pages of the Defter (ص 58)

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From the Pages of the Defter (ص 58)

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mukhtars, and council of elders of the place to which the milk belonged.” Registrants were
asked to bring to the commission their title deeds, whether issued from the courts or other
places. Provision for registration for those who did not possess title deeds was also made.
Mulk had been defined in Article 2 of the Land Code of 1858. It consists of a range of
properties: buildings within inhabited areas; lands no bigger than one-half a dunam that are
adjacent to inhabited places; land conferred by the sultan as private property; and lands in
the possession of non-Muslims which had not been seized by the Ottomans at the time of
their conquest.®” This 1874 Emlak law was both more and less specific regarding mui/k than
the 1858 Land Code had been. It explicitly mentioned as mu/k trees, shops, vineyards, and
gardens in addition to buildings, but neglected to delimit a maximum size for garden lands,
as had been done in 1858.
Fees for registration increased proportionately along with the assessed value of a
property, as can be seen in Table 1.1 below. The table shows that these fees were nominal in
relation to property value. The jump in the rate-scale of fees between properties valued
between 90,000 and 100,000 kurus, and those valued above 100,000 kurus, together with
the singular-sum fee charged for the category, suggests that there were few privately-owned
properties in the Empire that were valued above 100,000 kurus.
” Ibid., Chapter 1, Article 5, p. 231.
80 Ongley, 1-2.
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