Ottoman Land Code of 1858

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The Ottoman Land Code of 1858 was a major 19th-century legal reform that restructured land ownership and registration in the Ottoman Empire, laying the groundwork for many modern property systems in the region.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf 19th-century legislation
Ottoman legal reform
land law
appliesToJurisdiction Anatolia
Arab provinces of the Ottoman Empire
Ottoman Iraq
surface form: Iraq (Ottoman period)

Ottoman Empire
Ottoman Palestine
surface form: Palestine (Ottoman period)

Ottoman Syria
surface form: Syria (Ottoman period)
countryOfOrigin Ottoman Empire
dateEnacted 1858
effect creation of formal land title deeds
dispossession of some peasant cultivators
expansion of large estates in some regions
increased land registration by urban notables
fieldOfWork agricultural land regulation
real property law
hasPart provisions on land classification
provisions on land registration
provisions on land taxation
rules on inheritance of land
rules on mevat (dead) lands
rules on miri lands
rules on mulk lands
rules on musha (communal) lands
rules on state lands
rules on transfer of land
rules on waqf lands
historicalPeriod Tanzimat
surface form: Tanzimat era
influenced land law in Iraq
land law in Jordan
land law in Lebanon
land law in Mandatory Palestine
land law in Syria
land law in Turkey
land law in modern Israel
modern land laws in the Middle East
influencedBy European legal concepts
language Ottoman Turkish
legalStatus codified statute
legalSystem Ottoman law
mainSubject land registration
land tenure
property rights
partOf Tanzimat
surface form: Tanzimat reforms
purpose to centralize state control over land
to encourage land registration
to formalize land ownership
to increase tax revenues

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Tanzimat hasPart Ottoman Land Code of 1858