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Sharaf al-Muluk's complaint, 1920
Sharaf al-Muluk, wife of the deceased ʻAli Akbar Khan Sharaf al-Mulk Kurdistani and an heir of Muzaffar al-Saltanah, complains against Iʻtizad Divan for seizing the properties of Khan-i Kurdistani [her husband], which belongs to her and her children.
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Power of attorney from Lutf‘ali's wife, 1915
Mirza ‘Abd Allah, having the power of attorney from Lutf‘ali's wife, receives two hundred thirty tumans from Haj Mas‘ud al-Dawlah for an inheritance related matter; after Haj Mas‘ud al-Dawlah's complaint, the court rules his money be returned by Mirza ‘Abd Allah, whom in turn should receive the same amount from Lutf‘ali's wife; the woman's attorney appeals the ruling and is granted a grace period, while agents request Mirza ‘Abd Allah give immediate payment; Mirza ‘Abd Allah then complains that the two parties should be treated equally and he should also be given a grace period.
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Daughters of Vakil al-Sifarah's complaint, 1919-1920
Documents relating the follow-up to the daughters of Vakil al-Sifarat's complaint about not receiving their share of inheritance, including: Farah al-Saltanah's call for justice to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. She writes that after her father's death, his financial documents were kept in two boxes sealed at the embassies of Britain and the Ottoman Empire, but they are now in the posession of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and she wants the boxes opened. In another document, Sayf Allah Khan, the son of Amir Muqtadir Kirmanshahi, lodges a complaint against his wife, Farah al-Saltanah,...
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Sulayman's complaint regarding his wife's share of inheritance, 1919
Sulayman (the son of Haji Baba Muhammad'uf), the merchant of Russian nationality and resident of Istanbul, writes to the Russian consulate in Tabriz regarding the breach of his late wife (Sughra Khanum)'s right of inheritance. The inheritance of Najaf Muhammad'uf (Sughra Khanum's father) was divided among his other children, Muhsin, Mahmud, and Sariyah Khanum, as well as Haji Javad, Sariyah Khanum's husband and the executor of her will. Sulayman states that Sughra Khanum, the eldest child of Najaf Muhammad'uf, died in Istanbul, leaving him as her lawful inheritor. He has emphasized that...
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Petition to collect husband's rights
Copy of the petition written by the wife of the late Haji Muhammad ‘Alaqah-band [silk dealer] from Shiraz to the governor of Fars asking him to retrieve her entitlement from a sale agreement between her husband and Mu‘tamad al-Sultan Muhammad Hasan Khan Sartip [brigadier], son of the late Fath‘ali Khan from Nayriz, over one-sixth of Hasanabad farm of Nayriz
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Letter
The writer pleads with the Ayatollah to review the following case: the late Aqa Shaykh Muhammad ‘Ali's will was confirmed by Shabistar's ‘ulama’ after the dispute between the inheritors had been resolved. The Ayatollah and Hujjat al-Islam Haj Mirza Muhsin Aqa verified this confirmation. But, a villain named Muhammad Sadiq, who represented his wife and the children of the deceased, has caused some trouble. Having the support of the local government of Muqtadir al-Mulk, Muhammad Sadiq objected to the sale document of Aqa Haj Mirza Aqa, handwritten by the deceased, regarding one-eighth of the...
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Petition to replace underage children's guardian, 1905
Petition written by Bibi Sughra Sultan, daughter of the late Muhammad Kazim Qannadi [baker of sweets] and one of wives of the late Haji Muhammad ‘Alaqah-band's [the silk dealer] from Shiraz (son of Haj Muhammad Karim ‘Alaqah-band), to Haji Shaykh Yahya, the prayer leader of Fars, about inadequacy of Hajiyah Zivar Sultan, daughter of Haji Muhammad Hasan Salih and one of the late Haji Muhammad ‘Alaqah-band's wives, in handling the responsibilities of the deceased Haji's underage children and the request to replace Hajiyah Zivar Sultan as the children's guardian. The receiver of the petition...
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Petition by Mulla Karim's wife
Petition by the wife of Mulla Karim ‘Attar (herbalist) from Marand to Hujjat al-Islam regarding Shaykh Manaf, who had deprived the wife of Mulla Karim's brother from her mahr and rights, demanding that she should have proof of marriage while they had been married for 40 or 50 years. After Mulla Karim's death, Shaykh Manaf also deprived his wife, the petitioner, from her rights and assigned Dadashi from Huchqan as the guardian of her underage daughter. Then, they divided the child's share of inheritance between themselves.
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Sulayman's petition, 1919
Sulayman (the son of Haji Baba Muhammad'uf), the merchant of Russian nationality and resident of Istanbul, writes to the Russian Consulate regarding the breach of his late wife (Sughra Khanum)'s right of inheritance. The inheritance of Najaf Muhammad'uf (Sughra Khanum's father) was divided among his other children, Muhsin, Mahmud, and Sariyah Khanum, as well as Haji Javad, Sariyah Khanum's husband and the executor of her will. Sulayman states that Sughra Khanum, the eldest child of Najaf Muhammad'uf, died in Istanbul, leaving him as her lawful inheritor. He has emphasized that Najaf...
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Baba Ganjah Muhammad'uf's petition to Russian Consulate, 1920
The writer describes the way that Haji Javad took advantage of his illness and deceitfully obtained his signature on a petition; the division of properties among the inheritors leaves out the share of the late Sughra Khanum, the daughter of the late Aqa Mashhadi Najaf, whose inheritor is her husband Sulayman Bayg; the usurpation of the writer's properties by Haji Javad and Aqa Riza [his nephew], the share of Aqa Riza's late mother, who was also the writer's wife; and Hasan Aqa's share (one-fifth from his partnership in addition to his mother's inheritance); he requests that the consulate...
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