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IJA 2818

Documents Dealing with Rent Contracts for Property Owned by the Baghdadi Jewish Community

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These are archival documents from the Baghdadi Jewish community, primarily dealing with rent contracts. Included are calculation of expenses and a rent dispute that resulted from Jewish immigration from the area; an official court case letter regarding a lease dispute between a representative of the Jewish Lay Council and the decision of their case; an official court case; receipts from the Administrative Committee for Iraqi Jews; an official court registration of endowment of a property notarized with a wax seal; a letter from an attorney to the Administrative Committee for Iraqi Jews listing the expenses of the court case and requesting payment.

Metadata

Archive Reference
IJA 2818
Item Number
5838
Date
Approx. January 1, 1951 to December 31, 1960
Languages
Arabic
Keywords
Financial, Legal, Fragment, Revenue Stamp, Contract, Rent, Annotation, President of the Mosaic Community, Ink Stamp, Handwritten, Administrative Committee for Iraqi Jews, Baghdadi Jewish Community, Lawyer, Jewish Lay Council, President of the Jewish Community, Receipts, First Court of Baghdad, Wax Seal, Lease, Typed, Endowment

AI en Translation, Pages 51-75

Page 51

His Excellency, the Honorable Chairman of the Administrative Committee
Procedural File
With reference to the report submitted by me on September 29, 1957.
The judgment issued by the Baghdad Court of First Instance under file number 956/2547 has been executed, which ordered
Ahmed al-Salloum and Abdul Hadi Hamza to pay an amount of (192) Dinars along with costs and attorney
fees, covering the rent for a full year from March 13, 1956 to March 12, 1957
for the vacant plot sequence 330 located in the Kawlat neighborhood, which is the endowment of the late Rabbi Musa Sadqa.
Following the placement of a procedural seizure on the assets of the aforementioned judgment debtors, they delivered
to the Execution Department a total sum of (203/286) Dinars, consisting of (192) Dinars as the principal amount
claimed, and the remaining (11/286) Dinars for the awarded costs and attorney fees. The Execution Department
has issued a check for the mentioned amount to the order of your honorable committee, received by the secretary Mr. Naji, who
recorded the amount as revenue. Thus, this lawsuit has concluded and nothing remains to be executed.
Since your honorable committee had decided to postpone the payment of the remaining fee owed to me, amounting to
(9/600) Dinars, until the completion of the execution process, and indeed the judgment has been executed and the awarded amount
was obtained with costs, I therefore request your order to the community accountant to pay me the mentioned amount. To your Excellency
utmost respect
17 / 12 / 1957
Sincerely, Lawyer
Ibrahim Khazzoum
⟦illegible - very faded handwritten text in pencil or washed ink⟧