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Confirmation of debt to Zinat al-Shari‘ah, 1925
Hidayat Allah and Muhammad ‘Ali Nazim al-Sadat confirm they owed three hundred mans [unit of weight] of rice to Zinat al-Shari‘ah. They have used two hundred and ten mans of it as taxes and they will pay back the remaining ninety mans in three months.
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Copy of Fatimah Baygum's petition to Ayatollah Mirza Muhammad Husayn al-Najafi, 1926
Copy of a complaint petition from Fatimah Baygum to Ayatollah Mirza Muhammad Husayn al-Najafi regarding her brutal treatment at the hands of her husband, Haj Mirza Muhammad Sahib Anjavi. Fatimah Baygum claims that her husband has beaten her and thrown her and their children out of their house. She has sent the children to ask their father for permission to go back, but he refused every time. She next sent some acquaintances to her husband, but he never let her or the children return home. She finally sent this petition to Ayatollah Mirza Muhammad Husayn al-Najafi, requesting that he would...
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Correspondence to the court regarding the ownership of a house
Correspondence of the attorneys of Rubabah Sultan (wife of Haji ‘Ali Akbar) and Haj Mirza Habib Allah to the court regarding the ownership of the house that Rubabah Sultan is living in
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Deed regarding Mahrukh Sultan and Mirza Hasan ‘Ali's debt to Karbalayi Mahmud, 1915
Deed certifying that Mirza Hasan ‘Ali, son of the late Mirza Muhammad Husayn from Shiraz, and Mahrukh Sultan, permanent wife of the late Mirza Muhammad Husayn (and daughter of the late Haji Mirza Muhammad Javad from Shiraz), owe fifty tumans to Karbalayi Mahmud Dukhtah-duz [the tailor/dressmaker], son of the late Muhammad Isma‘il from Shiraz. First, they agreed that the debt should be paid in three years, but then they settled it for one hundred dinars and one charik [unit of weight] of hard sugar.
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Deposition about debt, 1900
Karbalayi Abu al-Qasim Nahhas [the copper seller], son of Karbalayi Zayn al-‘Abidin Nahhas, confirms that he owes two hundred tumans to his wife Bibi Ruqiyah, daughter of Karbalayi Muhammad Riza ‘Attar [the herbalist], which he will pay back in five years. He also puts one-third of a house in the Sarbagh neighborhood of Shiraz as a security deposit until he pays his debt completely.
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Deposition about recording a marriage, 1910
Sayyid Ahmad A‘mi [the blind] from Kazirun, son of Mirza Kuchak from Kazirun, testifies about his presence at the marriage ceremony between the late Hajiyah Zivar Sultan, daughter of Haji Muhammad Hasan the merchant, and Mirza Zayn al-‘Abidin, son of Haji Muhammad Hasan, in August of 1904. The mahr was one hundred tumans and a volume of the Qur’an. Shaykh Lutf Allah, son of Haj Shaykh ‘Ali Muhammad, was the other witness to the marriage present at the Imam's courthouse.
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Deposition about shares of inheritance and a will
Draft by Mashhadi Lutf‘ali and Mashhadi Ghulam ‘Ali, sons of the late Mashhadi Ghulam Riza, confirming their shares of their father's inheritance; additionally, Mashhadi Lutf‘ali confirms that his permanent wife, Khanum Safi, is the executor of his will and the guardian of his underage children, and if he dies before pilgrimages to Mecca and the shrines in Iraq, his wife, with his brother's supervision, should take his body to burry in Vadi al-Salam in Najaf.
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Deposition of Haj Ghulam Riza's children, 1907
Deposition of ʻAli Riza, Muhammad Husayn, Mashhadi Husayn, and Khanum Nawbar, the children of Haj Ghulam Riza Baqqal [the grocer] from Shiraz, about the ownership of a grocery store, a wood and grain trading shop, and two [illegible] shops worth one hundred and ninety-five tumans. All the properties mentioned are the mahr of Zivar Sultan, daughter of the late Karbalayi Mahdi and wife of the late Haj Ghulam Riza. The sons of Haj Ghulam Riza settled all of the mentioned shops with their mother for one man [unit of weight] of Nurah hard sugar and one hundred dinars. Khanum Nawbar should also...
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Dispute over a sale contract, 1915
Dispute between the inheritors of the late ‘Ali Akbar and the children of Maryam Sultan and Mashhadi Abu al-Qasim (Muhammad Isma‘il, Muhammad Ibrahim, Khanum Masha’ Allah, and Khanum Malik) over the sale contract of four-sixths of a house located in Sang Siyah neighborhood for two hundred tumans
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Drafts written by a woman's attorney
Drafts of three letters written by the attorney of a woman (whose name is not mentioned) regarding a quarrel about the ownership of a house