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IJA 2632

Legal Materials and Correspondence Related to the Daniel Family Endowment

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Description

This is archival material in from the Baghdadi Jewish Community containing documents related to a legal case dealing with the disbursement and management of an endowment from the Daniel family. It includes court testimony, correspondence with the local endowment administrating official, the Jewish Lay Council, the President of the Jewish Community, school administrators; and the transfer of management of the waqf. There are original title property deeds dated 1924-1931.

Metadata

Archive Reference
IJA 2632
Item Number
12735
Date
Approx. January 1, 1921 to December 31, 1930
Languages
Arabic
Keywords
Financial, Chart, Court of Cassation, Menahem S. Daniel's School, Illustration, Legal Document, Revenue Stamp, Ministry of Justice, Ledger, Deed, Form, Court of Baghdad, Contract, Typed, Ezra Menahem Daniel, Iraqi Government, Endowment, Baghdadi Jewish Community, Crown Crest, Legal, Ministry of Education, Ink Stamp, Torah, British Consulate, Administrative Committee for Iraqi Jews, Jewish Law, Court of Personal Property, Letterhead, Mayor of Baghdad, Jewish Lay Council, Fragment, Heskel Menahem Daniel, President of the Jewish Community, Waqf, Property, Receipt, Budget, Correspondence, Architectural Plans, Annotation, Schools, Handwritten, Printed Text, Land Registry, Ezra Menahem Daniel Sports-Ground Committee

AI en Translation, Pages 276-300

Page 276

Title Deed
Kingdom of Iraq
The Government
Record Date: ⟦illegible⟧ 1931
Record Number: 12
Volume Number: 66
Record Page Number: 72
Old Tapu Number:
Daily Journal Number:
Province | District | Sub-district | Village | Site | Neighborhood | Street | Remarks
Baghdad | Baghdad | ⟦illegible⟧ |  | ⟦illegible⟧ | ⟦illegible⟧ |  |
Type and Boundaries: Plot
Category: Waqf (Endowment)
Area: Thirty-three square meters and twenty-eight square centimeters
Shares:
First Owner:
The orchard named Zat Al-Salasil, previously bounded on the west side entirely by the public road, south by the wall of the property of the heirs of
Al-Ani, Volume ⟦illegible⟧, east by the public road, and west by the orchard of the heirs of Al-Salem ⟦illegible⟧. The entitlement has devolved
of the mentioned orchard ⟦illegible⟧ south by the public road and by the building of the Left School ⟦illegible⟧ according to deeds
Tapu numbered 86, 87, 71, 70, 12, 8, 15, 7 and dated ⟦illegible⟧ and 22nd and 21st
of November 1924, which was built by the late Menachem Saleh Daniel as a valid endowment ⟦illegible⟧. Due to
the opening of the public avenue, it has become two pieces, one of which is a large piece surrounded by ⟦illegible⟧ another to its left
and the first, which by means of the road has been partitioned from the mentioned large piece ⟦illegible⟧ according to the ⟦illegible⟧
plots, which are plot numbers 14/2, 14/4, 14/5, 14/6 ⟦illegible⟧ at a site belonging to the hospital
of Daniel and located on the right side of the public avenue as bounded ⟦illegible⟧
This transaction ⟦illegible⟧
According to the partitioning transaction No. 10 dated May 14, 1931, registered in the transaction register No. 10 on May 14, 1931
Value | Equivalent/Auction Value | Redemption Price | Registration Fee | Tax | Shares | Total
500 |  |  | 2 |  |  | 502
The plots whose boundaries and partitioning transaction image are described above have been registered in the Baghdad Tapu Department in the name of the deed
of the Menachem Saleh Daniel Endowments
Accordingly, this deed was written and delivered to the trustee of the Tapu deed
On May 14, 1931
Director of Tapu for the Baghdad Region
⟦illegible⟧