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Petition of Fatimah Sultan to assign a guardian for her children, 1918
Petition requested by Fatimah Sultan, daughter of the late Muhammad Sadiq Bayg from Shiraz and wife of the late Muhammad Karim Bayg, asking Hujjat al-Islam Sayyid Muhammad Ja‘far al-Musavi to assign someone as the guardian for her underage children named ‘Ali Aqa, Khanum Zinat, and Khanum Shawkat; the receiver of this petition replies with assigning Fatimah Sultan as the children's guardian and her brother, Aqa ‘Abbas Khan, as the supervisor.
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Petition of the wife of Mirza Muhammad ʻAli, the gardener of Salar al-Saltanah
Mirza Muhammad ʻAli, the gardener of Salar al-Saltanah, passed away and Salar al-Saltanah was supposed to pay a stipend for his three under aged children, but had not paid anything at the time of writing. Mirza Muhammad ʻAli's wife asked the police and was referred to the Ministry of Justice. They asked her to bring proof to confirm that she was the legal guardian of the children and Shaykh ʻAli Akbar, the prayer Imam, confirmed that she is their guardian. But the Ministry of Justice refused to help her. She asked the Majlis to help her with the case. The Majlis forwarded the petition to...
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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...