Governing property, making the modern state - PSI424

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Figure 10.4 Kufr `Awan, sequence of inheritance of one share
in family-10, 1884–1931
had been prepared and a clearance certificate from the civil registry had to
accompany a tapu mutation, daughters could not easily be excluded. Rather,
the way to exclude daughters was either to persuade them to sell their rights
to their brothers or male agnates, or for a father before his death to give his
rights to his sons. Why Kufr ‘Awan came to accept the registration of daughters,
while Bait Ra’s and Hawwara did not, is a question that goes to the heart of
their different agrarian systems.
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