Iskaz o ostavinama kotarskog šerijatskog suda u Gračanici iz druge polovine 1889. godine
Testimony on the inheritance statements of the district sharia court in Gračanica from the second half of 1889

Summary/Abstract: The paper discusses the legal regulation of the conduct of testimony as a form of report that the Qadis had to send regularly to the Supreme Sharia Court. Statements of inheritance were sent semi-annually and their sum was incorporated in the Main Activity Report which was filled out by the start of each New Year, beginning in 1886. Special attention is paid to the inheritance statement of the Gračanica District Sharia Court, which is a first-class source for reviewing socio-economic and statistical questions. The analysis of the document shows the material condition of the deceased and the general characteristic which could be summed up as poverty.

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