From the Pages of the Defter (ص 142)

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From the Pages of the Defter (ص 142)

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register signified ownership and, most significantly, it could be used to help prove ownership in
cases of dispute or application for a tapu deed.
Appendix | to this study reproduces an image of two register pages and a translation of
the form headlines on the pages of Hebron’s Esas-: Emlak register. The heading on the column
for names, esam-! ashab-i emlak, indicates that the tax obligation was to be registered in the
“name of the owner(s) of the property”. However, as will be discussed in Chapter 4, there did
not necessarily need to be congruency between the tapu and tax lists, although this was
undoubtedly the long-term Ottoman goal.*”° It was possible to register a property in the emlak
without registering it in the tapu. In the absence of a tapu register for Hebron with which we
can compare, it is impossible to estimate the degree to which one was divergent from the other
in Hebron. It can be reasonably assumed, though, that at this juncture the tax register was the
more thorough record, at least in the early decades of reform.*?"
Emlak registration as a strategy
One who wishes to discuss average or typical patterns of rural land ownership in Hebron
quickly runs into difficulties. While we can divide claimed ownership into two typologies,
individual/partner and communal, an examination of patterns of registration from village to
village reveals that there was flexibility allowed in registration. Individuals, family groupings
230 Mundy and Saumarez-Smith, 108-109, 135, 204.
*31 Gerber (1985),
125

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Susynne McElrone

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