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Settlement of Bibi Husná Jan and her daughters, 1911
According to a previous document of inheritance and settlement, a house located in the Sang-i Siyah neighborhood of Shiraz, including the yard, trees, a well, and a kitchen, had been transferred from Mulla Lutf Allah, the son of the late Mulla Fazl‘ali, to his wife, Bibi Husná Jan, and his two daughters, Bibi Mah Tal‘at and Bibi Jiliyyah. The inheritors have divided the shares as follows: as a result of a settlement Husná Jan owns two sixths of the house and Bibi Mah Tal‘at and Bibi Jiliyyah have each inherited two sixths of the house. With some witnesses and builders present, the division...
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Request for testimony regarding inheritance
Mirza Muhammad Rahim requests testimony on the following: that four-sixths of a house, located in Sang-i Siyah neighborhood [Shiraz], belonged to the late Hajiyah Khanum Sultan, the daughter of the late Haj Muhammad ‘Ali Sayyid Mirzayi, and her inheritors are Mirza Muhammad Rahim and his sister (on his mother's side), Shams Hajiyah, the daughter of the late Haji Mirza ‘Abd Allah. The house is currently in Mirza Muhammad Rahim's possession. On the margin seven people have testified.
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Letter to determine Khanum Sahib's share of a house, 1907
Letter to Shaykh ‘Abd al-Vahhab and Haji Mirza Fath Allah Khan, requesting them to determine Khanum Sahib (daughter of the late Haji ‘Ali Akbar)'s share of a house and to estimate its fair price
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Testimony of neighbors on the ownership of seven donkeys
Testimony of residents of [illegible] neighborhood and anyone who has knowledge on the matter; they declare that the seven donkeys belong to Vazir [the Minister?], Sulayman Bayg, and Tahmasb Bayg, not to Muhammad Karim Bayg, who had possession of the donkeys for the last forty days. The testimony also regards the ownership of two cows, which belong to the mother of ‘Abd al-Rasul and his sister. Fourteen people have signed the testimony.
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Power of attorney to get shares, 1905
‘Abd al-Majid and ‘Abd al-Rasul (sons of Haji Muhammad Ibrahim Sahib Tajir [the merchant] from Shiraz) and Khanum Sultan (permanent wife of Muhammad Ibrahim and daughter of Karbalayi Muhammad Husayn Bazzaz [the draper] from Shiraz) give power of attorney to get their rights and shares from Haji Muhammad Rahim Tajir [the merchant], brother of Haji Muhammad Ibrahim to Haji Muhammad Hasan from Shiraz. Dated December 4, 1905.
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Letter, 1903
Letter from Mustafa al-Husayni to Mirza Zayn al-‘Abidin, including greetings, the news of scarcity of camel-wool cloaks, asking if Aqa Shaykh Mahmud's wife has returned, inviting the addressee to his house in the summer to visit his sister, and some other news
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Power of attorney to get share of inheritance, 1906
Power of attorney given by Mashhadi Muhammad Riza Saffar from Shiraz (son of Haji ‘Abbas), Mashhadi Muhammad Husayn Basat-andaz [the street vendor] (son of Karbalayi Ghulam Husayn), Bibi Mah Rukh (permanent wife of Karbalayi Ghulam Husayn Saffar and daughter of Karbalayi Ghulam Husayn), and Bibi Habibah Sultan Khanum (permanent wife of Sayyid Isma‘il from Shiraz and daughter of the late Haji ‘Abbas) to Mirza Zayn al-‘Abidin (son of Haji Muhammad Hasan from Shiraz) in order to get their inheritance from Mashhadi ‘Ali Muhammad Basat-andaz, which Sayyid Mahmud Hakkak from Shiraz is holding....
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Petition regarding inheritance
Petition written by Haji Muhammadi, Karbalayi Muhammad Karim, Karbalayi Jalil [Khalil?], and Agha Bibi, children of the late Haji Muhammad Ja‘far Razzaz [the rice dealer], to Hujjat al-Islam Aqa-yi Haji, prayer-leader of Fars, in order to resolve the issue of their father's inheritance; now that their oldest brother, Karbalayi ‘Ali, is also deceased, their other brother, Karbalayi Majid, has falsely claimed the ownership of their father’s stable, rice selling store, and bakery.
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Settlement over agricultural lands, 1898
Settlement of the daughters of the late Haji Muhammad Hasan (known as Salih of Shiraz) and the children of the late Bibi Khanum Mah (another daughter of Haji Muhammad Hasan) and the late Muhammad Kazim Qannad [the baker] from Shiraz with Haji ‘Ali Akbar Tajir [the merchant], son of the late Abu Talib Tajir Namazi, over the specific agricultural lands located outside of Shiraz for forty-five tumans, one hundred mans [unit of weight] of onion, and twenty-five mans of pickled eggplant for each year
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Letter
Letter about the writer's illness and loneliness, a fifty-two year old woman who wants to get married, discontent about staying in Shiraz, promising to send orange seedlings before Nawruz, complaining about the mujtahid who has instructed the addressee's sister to ask for alimony, and some other news