5 results for “Ottoman Land Code”
The instruments governing forced displacement carry no term of years. Where duration is legally operative, it is in property law.
Article 68 of the Ottoman Land Code says fallow land becomes the right of Tapu, not that it reverts to the state. Reading the articles as enacted.
1.3 million dunums registered since 2016, 24,258 dunams declared state land in 2024, and what a 1907 treaty text says about a land register.
Published shares of Jewish landholding at the end of the Mandate run from 2.1% to 7.6%. Reading the registers, the purchases and the 1948 instruments.
Published totals run from about 1 million to more than 17 million dunams. What each figure counts, and which body measured it.