Mecelle
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25 sectionsContents
- Title
- History
- Enactment
- Post-Ottoman application
- Overview
- Book 1: Sale
- Book 2: Hire
- Book 3: Guarantee
- Book 4: Transfer of Debt
- Book 5: Pledges
- Book 6: Trust and Trusteeship
- Book 7: Gift
- Book 8: Wrongful Appropriation and Destruction
- Book 9: Interdiction, Constraint and Pre-emption
- Book 10: Joint Ownership
- Book 11: Agency
- Book 12: Settlement and Release
- Book 13: Admissions
- Book 14: Actions
- Book 15: Evidence and Administration of an Oath
- Book 16: Administration of Justice by the Courts
- Translations
- Notes
- References
- External links
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The Mecelle was the civil code of the Ottoman Empire in the late 19th and early 20th century. It is the first codification of Sharia law by an Islamic nation.