The Handbook of Palestine (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Harry Charles Luke

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 133189946X ISBN 13 : 9781331899464

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Explore early British Palestine’s legal system and how justice was administered for a new era.

This practical guide lays out how courts functioned, from Civil and Sharia courts to tribal and municipal tribunals, in a region balancing Ottoman legacy with a modern administration. It offers clear explanations of jurisdiction, languages of pleading, and the roles of judges, advocates, and religious authorities in everyday legal life. In these pages you’ll discover how justice was delivered across civil, criminal, and personal-status cases, how land and commercial law took shape, and how new laws and registration processes affected residents. The book also covers education for lawyers, the government’s approach to taxation and revenue, and how courts handled diverse communities under one administrative framework.

• How magistrates’ courts and the police functioned in a developing legal system.
• Ways in which Arabic, English, and Hebrew shaped pleadings and proceedings.
• The distinct roles of Moslem, Christian, and Jewish religious courts.
• How new laws, registries, and corporate rules supported governance.

Ideal for readers of legal history, colonial administration, and Middle Eastern studies who want a concise view of how law, order, and public life operated in 1920s Palestine.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Excerpt from The Handbook of Palestine

The Handbook of Palestine has been written and printed during a period of transition in the administration of the country. While the book was in the press the Council of the League of Nations formally approved the conferment on Great Britain of the Mandate for Palestine; and, consequent upon this act, a new constitution is to come into force, the nominated Advisory Council will be succeeded by a partly elected Legislative Council, and other changes in the direction of greater self-government, which had awaited the ratification of the Mandate, are becoming operative. Again, on the 1st July, 1922, the administrative divisions of the country were reorganized. The editors of the Handbook have endeavoured, to the best of their ability, to keep pace with these changes and to make the work as up-to-date as possible; but, in view of the difficulties with which they have been faced in this connexion, they ask the indulgence of their readers if, at times, events have moved faster than the printer.

They desire gratefully to acknowledge the assistance that has been so readily placed at their disposal. In the first place they wish to thank the High Commissioner for the encouragement he has given them in their task, and for being good enough to contribute the introduction to the volume.

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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 133189946X
• ISBN 13: 9781331899464
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 329
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible