Mecelle

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Mecelle was the 19th-century Ottoman civil code that systematically codified Islamic (Hanafi) jurisprudence into a modern legal framework.

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Ottoman Mecelle (civil code) 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Islamic law codification
Ottoman legal code
civil code
aimedAt systematic codification of Islamic civil law
appliesToJurisdiction Ottoman Empire NERFINISHED
later successor states of the Ottoman Empire
basedOn Hanafi jurisprudence NERFINISHED
Islamic law
chairOfDraftingCommission Ahmet Cevdet Pasha NERFINISHED
contains 99 legal maxims at the beginning
country Ottoman Empire
dateOfCompletion 1876
dateOfFirstAdoption 1869
describedAs first systematic codification of Islamic civil law in a modern code form
draftedBy Ahmet Cevdet Pasha NERFINISHED
draftingCommission Mecelle Commission NERFINISHED
endTime 1876
excludes criminal law
family law
inheritance law
follows Hanafi school of Islamic jurisprudence NERFINISHED
genre legal code
hasPart contract law provisions
evidence and procedure provisions
general principles section (qawaid fiqhiyya)
obligations and torts provisions
property law provisions
historicalPeriod Tanzimat era NERFINISHED
inception 19th century
influenced Iraqi civil law
Jordanian civil law
Palestinian civil law practice
Syrian civil law
civil law in parts of the Balkans under Ottoman rule
civil law in some Middle Eastern countries
influencedBy European codification movements
language Ottoman Turkish NERFINISHED
legalDomain civil law
legalStatus civil code NERFINISHED
legalSystem Hanafi fiqh NERFINISHED
numberOfArticles 1851
numberOfBooks 16
purpose codification of Hanafi jurisprudence in a modern legal framework
modernization of Ottoman civil law
religion Islam
replacedBy Swiss-inspired civil codes in the Republic of Turkey
startTime 1869
subjectMatter contracts
evidence
obligations
property

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Ottoman law codifiedIn Mecelle
Turkish Civil Code reforms replaced Mecelle
this entity surface form: Ottoman Mecelle (civil code)