Chapter XVI: Appendix: III

INCOMPLETE TABLE OF CONTENTS OF THE KANUN-NAMEH, OR COLLECTION OF EDICTS, OF SULEIMAN THE MAGNIFICENT AS ARRANGED BY THE MUFTI EBU SU’UD

Translated from the Turkish

[From folios 69-70 of the Turkish MS. Fluegel No. 1816, Imperial Library, Vienna: “Fundamental Laws of Sultan Suleiman, according to the arrangement of the Mufti Ebu-Su’ud.” The table does not begin till folio 27 of the manuscript. The page references are to Hammer’s _Staatsverfassung_, where a translation of the paragraphs may be found.]

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27. Law concerning mortgage and loan contracts. p. 396

28. Law concerning fallow fields. p. 397

29. Law concerning uncultivated lands. p. 398

29. Law concerning absent and missing [tenants]. p. 398

30. Law concerning the hereditary tenancy of land (_tapu_), and
regulations determining what sort of lands are given in
hereditary tenancy. p. 399

31. Regulations for the case when a _Spahi_ of either a large
or a small fief possesses his fief in common ownership. p. 401

32. Regulations for the case when a _Spahi_ dies or is
dispossessed before the delivery of the hereditary lease.
(In Hammer the heading is different and is not logically
placed.) p. 403

33. Regulations for the case when the tenant dies before the
expiration of the hereditary lease. p. 404

33. Law concerning the giving out of the winter and summer
pastures and concerning the legal relationships of
meadow lands. p. 199

34. Law concerning the ground tax, concerning the taxes upon
state-lands, sandy fields, peasants’ houses, etc. p. 406

35. Law concerning the tenth, the tax upon vineyards, leased
vineyards, the bushel, and the bushel-tax. p. 407

36. Law concerning the tenth, the fifth, and the fodder tenth
(_salariyeh_). p. 407

37. Regulations for the case of joint ownership when more than
the tenth of the crop, namely, the half or the fifth, is
demanded from the _Spahi_. (Not found in Hammer.)

38. Special regulations regarding the tenths of the _Spahis_.
(Not found in Hammer.)

39. Law concerning the taxes on mills and green produce. p. 408

39. Law concerning the landlord’s share, the tenths and the
fruits. p. 408

40. Law concerning the tenths [of honey, the tax on] bees,
other taxes, etc. p. 409

41. Law concerning the sheep-tax and the fold-tax. p. 410

42. Law concerning the obligations of subjects and the tax on
prisoners. (Hammer, the slave-tax.) p. 410

42. Law concerning the half-hide-tax. (Hammer, the bride-tax.) p. 411

43. Law concerning the hide-tax and the taxes on abandoned lands. p. 411

44. Law concerning fleeing the country. p. 412

45. Law concerning the wandering hordes. p. 413

46. Law concerning the wagoners. p. 413

47. Law concerning the irregular cavalry. (Hammer, fiefs for
public service.) p. 414

48. Law concerning the Yayas and Mosellems (free foot-soldiers). p. 415

49. Law concerning the imperial foundations and the _vakfs_. p. 416

49. Regulations concerning lawsuits over land. p. 417

51. Law concerning the time of the harvest. p. 418

52. Law concerning the harvest and the designation of those
persons who receive their income out of landed property
but not at the time of harvest. (Not a separate heading
in Hammer.) p. 419

53. Special regulations concerning fiefs in regard to dating,
registering, etc. (Not found in Hammer.)

54. Law concerning the intendants of the fiscus, the receivers
of taxes, and regulations concerning the revenues of the
court. p. 419

55. Law concerning the holders of great and small fiefs, and
concerning the freedom of some military persons from
certain occasional taxes. p. 421

56. Law concerning the _Beylerbeys_, the _Sanjak Beys_, and
the _Kapuji-bashis_. p. 422

57. Law concerning the fees of judges. p. 423

57. Law concerning the contents of the _berats_ of the judges
(their diplomas of appointment). (Omitted in Hammer.)

58. Regulations concerning lawsuits between _Spahis_ and
non-Mohammedans or between two _Spahis_. p. 424

60. Law concerning taxes which are demanded from leased land
when the tenth alone is insufficient. (Not found in Hammer.)