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Petition concerning Muhtaram al-Saltanah's legal case against Jahanshah Khan Afshar
Muhtaram al-Saltanah's attorney's objections to Jahan Shah Khan Amir Afshar's power of attorney in the court of appeals. In this petition, Muhtaram al-Saltanah's attorney objects to the claims made by Jahan Shah Amir Afshar's attorney and mentions matters of dispute, such as Muhtaram al-Saltanah's place of residence in Tehran, the date of foreign military deployments, the price of wheat, etc.
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Qamar Khanum's petition against Shahrbanu Khanum
Qamar Khanum writes to the Majlis that Shahrbanu Khanum owed her 100 tuman and refused to return it. She kept promissing to give it back, but did not do so.
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Petition of Khanum Banu Musamma
Different people owed Khanum Banu Musamma, the daughter of Dabir ʻAli Kirmanshahani, some money, but since she was a woman, no one paid the debt. In despair, she asked the Majlis to help her.
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Petition of Maʻsumah Khanum, daughter of Aqa Muhammad ʻAli Khazanah
Maʻsumah Khanum, the daughter of Aqa Muhammad ʻAli Khzanah complained that Iʻtisam al-Saltanah owed her ten thousand tumans and that although the Ministry of Justice voted in her favor, he did not return the money. The Ministry of Justice said that they had no executive power and refused to help her get her money back.
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Petition of ʻIsmat, the mother of Mirza Ibrahim Aqa
ʻIsmat, the mother of Mirza Ibrahim Aqa, former member of Parliament, wrote that Haji ʻAli Akbar, the nephew of Haji Mirza Hasan Mujtahid borrowed 230 tuman from her and refused to return the money. She had a verdict in her favor from the court in Tabriz, but Haji ʻAli Akbar would not return the money.
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Mufarrah al-Saltanah's petitions, 1923-1931
Mufarrah al-Saltanah's petitions against Qasim Khan Sardar Humayun: the first petition dates to 16 Jan 1923, in which Mufarrah al-Saltanah, mother of the Sardar Rashid's children, gives 1500 tumans as a lawyer's fee to Sayyid Husayn Aqa Hujjat al-Islamzadah as a lawyer's fee if she receives 12000 tumans from Sardar Humayun. The second petition, written on 24 Feb 1923, again considers Sardar Humayun's debt to Sardar Rashid's inheritors. In the third petition, addressed to the Ministry of Justice on 2 March 1931, Mufarrah al-Saltanah complains that Sardar Humayun has not paid his debt of...
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Regarding the petition of Haji Mirza Sayyid ʻAli Muhammad Larijani's daughter
The documents include a petition from Haji Mirza Sayyid ʻAli Muhammad Larijani's daughter to the Majlis and some related correspondence. The petition is about the money that Haji Sayyid Ibrahim Larijani owed her and refused to pay. Though she compromised to get 1700 tumans instead of the original 4000 tumans debt, he still refused to pay.
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Regarding Fakhr al-Hajiyah's petition
Fakhr al-Hajiyah asks Majlis to help her get her money back from Banu-yi ʻUzma (4000 tumans) and Khalil Khan Vazir (1400 Tumans). They refused to return her money and then claimed that the money was lost. The Majlis forwarded her petition to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Justice. The responses indicate that Banu-yi ʻUzma changed her citizenship and Akbar, the brother of Khalil Khan who had to pay Fakhr al-Hajiyah on his behalf, was out of the country.
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‘Abd al-Rahman's petition, 1928 or 1929
Petition by ‘Abd al-Rahman Dihlavi (from Delhi) to the Majlis, stating that when he filed a claim against Murtaza Khan Shuja‘ Lashkar Ardalan for what he owed him, his petitions remained unanswered. But, someone else's claim against the writer, concerning a debt much smaller than Murtaza Khan's, has been immediately acted upon by sending agents to the writer's house, disturbing his pregnant wife with their search. Impacted by the incident, his wife has been in bed for two months.