Women's Worlds in Qajar Iran

Women's Worlds in Qajar Iran

Legal and financial documents about inheritance, 1914-1939

Legal and financial documents about inheritance, 1914-1939

Legal and financial documents about inheritance, including: a settlement regarding the transfer of property from Fatimah Baygum, daughter of Karbala’i Asghar, to Karbala’i Akbar and the dispossession of her brothers; an inheritance transfer from Fatimah Baygum, daughter of Karbala’i Asghar, to Karbala’i Akbar, her husband’s nephew, and the dispute by her brothers (her brothers, Haji Baqir and Haji Hasan, objected to this settlement, claiming that Fatimah Baygum did not receive any property from their father and the inheritance was theirs. Besides, she had transferred her properties to her brothers. Despite the settlement between Fatimah Baygum and her brothers, they had to give all of Fatimah Baygum’s properties to Karbala’i Akbar because their settlement was after the settlement between Fatimah Baygum and Karbala’i Akbar and was considered void); a petition from Fatimah Baygum, daughter of Karbala’i Asghar, against her brothers who took possession of her inheritance; a claim from Mashhadi ʻAli Akbar, son of Karbala’i Taqi, to a settlement to transfer Fatimah Baygum’s inherited property to him; a settlement of Mashhadi ʻAli Asghar’s property to his wife and children; a settlement between Fatimah Sughra Khanum, Haji Aqa and Mahmud Aqa, children of Fatimah Baygum and Karbala’i ʻAli Asghar regarding their father inheritance; a settlement of property between Fatimah Baygum and her son, Aqa Mahmud, worth 40 tumans; power of attorney from Fatimah Sughra Khanum Yakhshi to her brother, Mashhadi Aqa Mahmud, concerning a request for selling her property; Verdict of Fatimah Baygum’s conviction against a claim of her son, Mashhadi Haji Aqa, concerning illegal occupation of a property.

Item Details

  • Date 14 July 1914 - 28 August 1939
  • Collections Farhad
  • Repository Farhad Collection
  • Restrictions No restrictions
  • Accessed 10 January 2013
  • Last Edited 21 May 2013
  • Record no. 1266A5
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