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Marriage contract of Dilbar Khanum and ʻAli Bayg, 1847
Marriage contract of Dilbar Khanum, the daughter of Bala Bayg, and ʻAli Bayg, the eldest son of Allah Quli Bayg, dated December 3, 1847. The mahr is 200 tumans, which remains the groom's debt, to be paid whenever the bride asks for it and the groom can afford it. The groom's attorney is ʻAli Panah, son of Akhund Mulla ʻAli and the bride's attorney is Husaynʻali Khan.
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Dispute among inheritors of Mashhadi Gulshan Khanum
Bala Bayg, an inheritor of Mashhadi Gulshan Khanum, claims that her mother gave her properties to him and his brothers, Qahraman Khan and Shirin Bayg, that he has the bestowal settlement written in Mulla Hasan Mardanqumi's handwriting, and that the bestowal settlement the children of his deceased brother, Qasim Khan, claim to have is not valid because Qasim Khan coerced his mother into writing it. Moreover, since Qahraman Khan, Qasim Khan, and Shirin Bayg died before their mother, according to Sharia law, one sixth of their property was inherited by their mother. Therefore, after her death,...