By Martin Bunton
Bunton finds how the British have been reason on keeping the established order of Ottoman land legislation, which (when few Britons may well learn Ottoman or have been good grounded in its criminal codes) resulted in a sequence of translations, interpretations, and accordingly new purposes of land legislation. The feel of value the British attributed to their paintings surveying and registering homes and transactions, is captured within the efforts of British officers to microfilm all in their documents on the top of the second one global battle. regardless of this even though, land regulations remained in flux.
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