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Marriage contract of Hajar Khanum and Habib Allah Khan, 1914
Marriage contract of Hajar Khanum, daughter of Mashhadi Mirza Jan, and Habib Allah Khan, son of Ibrahim; the mahr is one hundred tumans, of which forty tumans, four gold coins worth nine tumans, and a pair of earrings worth eight tumans were received. The rest remains the groom's debt.
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Khvurshid Khanum's petitions, 1908
Petitions by Khvurshid Khanum, daughter of Aqa Riza, from Barfurush, to Mukhbir al-Saltanah, Minister of Justice, explaining how following her parents death, when she was three years old, her uncle, ‘Abbasquli Khan, seeking her inheritance of more than fifty thousand tumans worth of property, took her in. After ten years, he married her off to his grandson, son of I‘timad Divan, despite her discontent. I‘timad Divan never paid her her share of inheritance with the excuse that she was his son's wife. Khvurshid Khanum wants a divorce and is willing to waive her mahr, which is more than ten...