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Settlement between Khanum Bashi and children of Haj Riza, 1940
Settlement between Khanum Bashi and the children of the late Haj Riza, Husayn (husband of Khanum Bashi) and Isma‘il, over land and its water rights, which were part of her mahr, and a garden and its water rights, also part of her mahr.
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Settlement between Mansurah Buluri and Habib Allah Vaziri, 1947
Settlement between Mansurah Buluri Tafrishi, the daughter of Mahdi, and her husband, Habib Allah Vaziri, the son of Muhammad, regarding Mansurah's mahr. In their marriage contract, Mansurah's mahr was eight thousand rials and a later contract added fifty two thousand to the mahr, yielding a total of sixty thousand rials. Based on this settlement, Habib Allah transfers his share of the inheritance from his father, worth fifty nine thousand, four hundred and eighteen rials, to Mansurah Khanum for her mahr. Habib Allah's share includes the following: part of a house in Tehran, part of an...
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Marriage contract of Ma‘sumah Khanum and Qadam‘ali, 1927
Marriage contract of Ma‘sumah Khanum, the daughter of Aqa Muhammad ‘Ali, and Qadam‘ali, the son of Aqa ‘Ali. The mahr is eighty nine tumans. The groom settled the following, which his father had settled to him earlier, to the bride: one-sixth of a house, some shares of water (worth 20 tumans), a set of bedding (10 tumans), rugs (15 tumans), copperwares (5 tumans), and a cow (five tumans). These amount to seventy seven tumans from the mahr in total, and the remaining twelve tumans remains the groom's debt.
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Marriage agreement of Humayun and Amir, 1928
Marriage agreement of Humayun, daughter of Karbalayi Riza son of Sadiq from Khuzan, and Amir, son of the late Haj Abu al-Hasan from Andan. The mahr includes twenty-six tumans and two thousand five hundred dinars, part of a house in Andan village, a share of water and a building in Andan, and seven misqals [unit of weight] of gold worth eighteen tumans. Ten tumans will additionally be paid for kitchen expenses and to buy a set of clothing.
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Marriage contract of Sadiqah Khanum and Mirza Mahdi Quli, 1927
Marriage contract of Sadiqah Khanum, daughter of Mirza Sayyid Muhammad Husayn, and Mirza Mahdi Quli, son of Mirza Sayyid Asad Allah. The mahr is one hundred tumans, which includes a Qurʼan worth twenty-five tumans, white gold worth twenty-five tumans, women's clothing worth twenty-five tumans, and twenty-five tumans in cash. The groom and his father settled some properties and some water channels for fourteen riyals of the mahr with the bride.
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Settlement between Khadijah Bayg Layk and Ja‘far Quli Khan, 1931
Ja‘far Quli Khan Sari, son of Haj ‘Ali Aqa Khan Yavar, transfers his properties in two villages, including pieces of land and a water share to his wife, Khadijah Khanum, in exchange for two thousand five hundred and fifty tumans. He then hands her this amount in addition to another four hundred and fifty tumans as the price of the properties that were included in her mahr.
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Marriage contract between Bibi Layla and Muhammad Husayn, 1927
Marriage contract between Bibi Layla, the daughter of Karbalayi Sayyid ʻAbbas (son of Karbalayi Sayyid Maʻsum from Birjand), and Muhammad Husayn, son of Mulla Zayn al-ʻAbidin, on January 24, 1927. The mahr, which is 84 tumans and will remain the bridegroom's debt, includes: two shares of half of a day's use of the water from the qanat of Hasanabad farm for 32 tumans, half of a house in Arviz village for 6 tumans, kilims and felt for carpeting one room for four tumans, four women's dresses to buy and to make for five tumans, ten mans [each man equals three kilograms] of copper for six...