APPENDIX III
INCOMPLETE TABLE OF CONTENTS OF THE KANUN-NAMEH, OR COLLECTION OF EDICTS, OF SULEIMAN THE MAGNIFICENT AS ARRANGED BY THE MUFTI EBU SU’UD

Translated from the Turkish

[From folios 69-70 of the Turkish MS. Fluegel No. 1816, Imperial Library, Vienna: “Fundamental Laws of Sultan Suleiman, according to the arrangement of the Mufti Ebu-Su’ud.” The table does not begin till folio 27 of the manuscript. The page references are to Hammer’s Staatsverfassung, where a translation of the paragraphs may be found.]

FOLIO
27. Law concerning mortgage and loan contracts. p. 396
28. Law concerning fallow fields. p. 397
29. Law concerning uncultivated lands. p. 398
29. Law concerning absent and missing [tenants]. p. 398
30. Law concerning the hereditary tenancy of land (tapu), and regulations determining what sort of lands are given in hereditary tenancy. p. 399
31. Regulations for the case when a Spahi of either a large or a small fief possesses his fief in common ownership. p. 401
32. Regulations for the case when a Spahi dies or is dispossessed before the delivery of the hereditary lease. (In Hammer the heading is different and is not logically placed.) p. 403
33. Regulations for the case when the tenant dies before the expiration of the hereditary lease. p. 404
33. Law concerning the giving out of the winter and summer pastures and concerning the legal relationships of meadow lands. p. 199
34. Law concerning the ground tax, concerning the taxes upon state-lands, sandy fields, peasants’ houses, etc. p. 406
35. Law concerning the tenth, the tax upon vineyards, leased vineyards, the bushel, and the bushel-tax. p. 407
36. Law concerning the tenth, the fifth, and the fodder tenth (salariyeh). p. 407
37. Regulations for the case of joint ownership when more than the tenth of the crop, namely, the half or the fifth, is demanded from the Spahi. (Not found in Hammer.)
38. Special regulations regarding the tenths of the Spahis. (Not found in Hammer.)
39. Law concerning the taxes on mills and green produce. p. 408
39. Law concerning the landlord’s share, the tenths and the fruits. p. 408
40. Law concerning the tenths [of honey, the tax on] bees, other taxes, etc. p. 409
41. Law concerning the sheep-tax and the fold-tax. p. 410
42. Law concerning the obligations of subjects and the tax on prisoners. (Hammer, the slave-tax.) p. 410
42. Law concerning the half-hide-tax. (Hammer, the bride-tax.) p. 411
43. Law concerning the hide-tax and the taxes on abandoned lands. p. 411
44. Law concerning fleeing the country. p. 412
45. Law concerning the wandering hordes. p. 413
46. Law concerning the wagoners. p. 413
47. Law concerning the irregular cavalry. (Hammer, fiefs for public service.) p. 414
48. Law concerning the Yayas and Mosellems (free foot-soldiers). p. 415
49. Law concerning the imperial foundations and the vakfs. p. 416
49. Regulations concerning lawsuits over land. p. 417
51. Law concerning the time of the harvest. p. 418
52. Law concerning the harvest and the designation of those persons who receive their income out of landed property but not at the time of harvest. (Not a separate heading in Hammer.) p. 419
53. Special regulations concerning fiefs in regard to dating, registering, etc. (Not found in Hammer.)
54. Law concerning the intendants of the fiscus, the receivers of taxes, and regulations concerning the revenues of the court. p. 419
55. Law concerning the holders of great and small fiefs, and concerning the freedom of some military persons from certain occasional taxes. p. 421
56. Law concerning the Beylerbeys, the Sanjak Beys, and the Kapuji-bashis. p. 422
57. Law concerning the fees of judges. p. 423
57. Law concerning the contents of the berats of the judges (their diplomas of appointment). (Omitted in Hammer.)
58. Regulations concerning lawsuits between Spahis and non-Mohammedans or between two Spahis. p. 424
60. Law concerning taxes which are demanded from leased land when the tenth alone is insufficient. (Not found in Hammer.)