Mulk

As in the American West and something in the manner of "Homesteading," these were and are (Ottoman Land Law having been absorbed into both Israel and Jordan Law) lands outside of cities and public spaces connected to cities whose title according to the Ottoman Land Law of 1856 (and, in fact, strict Islamic legal theory and customary practice upon which it was based) had never either been determined or registered by anyone, but which carried with it a right of "Vivification," that is, if you fenced off an uninhabited area of this kind with no registered legal title and cultivated it for three years continuously, you had the right to register it as "mulk" - freehold property. ❋ Unknown (2008)

I wanted only 'mulk' or freehold land; and 'wakf' (land held in tail or mortmain) of various and awful kinds is much more common. ❋ Marmaduke William Pickthall (1905)

The name is in Marathi and sounds like hailing a mughal entering the court like, "Ba mulayza, shajahan, malik e mulk, bashah ..." ❋ Anjali (2009)

(˜Ã¢lam al-mulk), further to causes that exist in the celestial spheres, the “world of sovereignty” ❋ Unknown (2009)

But I have a hunch that, judging from his posts, WWJRD has no inkling of the differenced between mulk land, miri land and the other varieties, and why that makes all the difference when it comes to quieting titles in that part of the world, even under Arablaw. ❋ Unknown (2007)

It was of a night, late, lang time agone, in an auldstane eld, when Adam was delvin and his madameen spinning watersilts, when mulk mountynotty man was everybully and the first leal ribberrobber that ever had her ainway everybuddy to his love-saking eyes and everybilly lived alove with everybiddy else, and ❋ Unknown (2006)

The property of the gardens is either mulk or wakf; the former, if they belong to an individual; the latter, if they belong to the mosque, or any of the medreses or pious foundations, from which they are farmed, at very long leases, by the people of Medina themselves, who re-let them on shorter terms to the cultivators. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Much state land was subsequently converted into private property (mulk) by legal and illegal means. ❋ Unknown (2001)

The Warnier Law promulgated by the French government provided a means for the dispossession of privately owned Muslim land (mulk). ❋ Unknown (2001)

While he ruled as a caliph, opponents defined his regime as a form of kingship (mulk), an un-Islamic departure from the precedent of the Rashidun caliphs. ❋ Unknown (2001)

"What do ye mean?" he asked angrily; "that's as much as sayin 'ye hav'na' enough mulk." ❋ Anonymous (N/A)

The Arab proverb, "Al mulk wa dín tawáminí" -- country and religion are twins -- is the popular form of expressing the unity of Church and State. ❋ Edward Sell (N/A)

At last a sheykh came who declared his land was 'mulk,' and certain of our neighbours, men of worth, testified of their certain knowledge that he spoke the truth. ❋ Marmaduke William Pickthall (1905)

Inquiries follow about the _mulk_ or countries one has crossed on one's journey, and whether the people have treated one kindly. ❋ Arnold Henry Savage Landor (1894)

Row, where, over a supper "o 'parritch an' soor mulk," Andrew Black heard from Jock Bruce all about the Declaration of Rutherglen, and the defeat of Claverhouse by the Covenanters at Drumclog. ❋ Unknown (1859)

"Tatties and mulk" were at the bottom of the whole affair. ❋ Unknown (1859)

And at p. 256, Translation (v. 4620), I read, 'Lorsque Nizam ul-mulk fut a l'agonie, il dit: "O mon Dieu, je m'en vais entre les mains du vent."' ❋ Edward FitzGerald (1846)

Servian, pointed out those shops belonging to the sultan, still marked with the letter f, intended, I suppose, for _mulk_ or imperial property. ❋ Andrew Archibald Paton (1842)

Misser Mulford run, why put him down run, and let him go, I say, on'y mulk his wages; but what good it do anybody to starve him? ❋ James Fenimore Cooper (1820)