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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| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ottoman Land Code of 1858 canonical | 1 |
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
19th-century legislation
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Ottoman legal reform ⓘ land law ⓘ |
| appliesToJurisdiction |
Anatolia
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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
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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
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land tenure ⓘ property rights ⓘ |
| partOf |
Tanzimat
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surface form:
Tanzimat reforms
|
| purpose |
to centralize state control over land
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to encourage land registration ⓘ to formalize land ownership ⓘ to increase tax revenues ⓘ |
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