mulk

As in the American West and something in the manner of "Homesteading," these were and are (Ottoman Land Law having been absorbed into both Israel and Jordan Law) lands outside of cities and public spaces connected to cities whose title according to the Ottoman Land Law of 1856 (and, in fact, strict Islamic legal theory and customary practice upon which it was based) had never either been determined or registered by anyone, but which carried with it a right of "Vivification," that is, if you fenced off an uninhabited area of this kind with no registered legal title and cultivated it for three years continuously, you had the right to register it as "mulk" - freehold property.

Robert Eisenman: Christiane Amanpour's God's Warriors, "the Jews," and "the Occupied Territories": Is this for Real? 2008

I wanted only 'mulk' or freehold land; and 'wakf' (land held in tail or mortmain) of various and awful kinds is much more common.

Oriental Encounters Palestine and Syria, 1894-6 Marmaduke William Pickthall 1905

The name is in Marathi and sounds like hailing a mughal entering the court like, "Ba mulayza, shajahan, malik e mulk, bashah ..."

Archive 2009-04-01 Anjali 2009

The name is in Marathi and sounds like hailing a mughal entering the court like, "Ba mulayza, shajahan, malik e mulk, bashah ..."

Vangya.cha Rassa DaNya.cha Koot Lavun Anjali 2009

(˜Ã¢lam al-mulk), further to causes that exist in the celestial spheres, the “world of sovereignty”

Guess Who Was At The Party? 2009

But I have a hunch that, judging from his posts, WWJRD has no inkling of the differenced between mulk land, miri land and the other varieties, and why that makes all the difference when it comes to quieting titles in that part of the world, even under Arablaw.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Remarkable Editorializing in the New York Times: 2007

It was of a night, late, lang time agone, in an auldstane eld, when Adam was delvin and his madameen spinning watersilts, when mulk mountynotty man was everybully and the first leal ribberrobber that ever had her ainway everybuddy to his love-saking eyes and everybilly lived alove with everybiddy else, and

Finnegans Wake 2006

The property of the gardens is either mulk or wakf; the former, if they belong to an individual; the latter, if they belong to the mosque, or any of the medreses or pious foundations, from which they are farmed, at very long leases, by the people of Medina themselves, who re-let them on shorter terms to the cultivators.

Travels in Arabia 2003

Much state land was subsequently converted into private property (mulk) by legal and illegal means.

1853 2001

The Warnier Law promulgated by the French government provided a means for the dispossession of privately owned Muslim land (mulk).

1857-67 2001