From the Pages of the Defter (ص 258)

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that was valid. Further, it has been shown that it was not necessary to have a tapu certificate
in order to claim ownership for the emlak commission and pay taxes. Taxes were another
way of claiming ownership. This demonstrates that proving tenure through tapu and tapu
alone is a requirement imposed after the Ottoman period, anachronistically. Under
subsequent regimes, the tapu ironically has come to have more legal weight than it did
under the government that created it.
Further, these court cases establish that villagers in Hebron were aware of and
familiar with the law. The way that villagers in these three cases constructed their
arguments, arranged their proofs, and presented their demands to the court proves that one
generation after the land and tax commissions, reforms had been integrated into societal
procedure, and villagers were conversant in the ins and outs of the new laws.
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2016

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Susynne McElrone

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