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1. Beth Din, n. View full entry 1795
...A Jewish court composed of the Chief Rabbi and two or more assistants, responsible for matters of Jewish ecclesiastical law and the settlement of disputes between Jews....
2. cadi, n. View full entry 1590
...A civil judge among the Turks, Arabs, Persians, etc.; usually the judge of a town or village....
3. divan, n. View full entry 1586
...An Oriental council of state; spec. in Turkey, the privy council of the Porte, presided over by the Sultan, or in his absence by the grand vizier....
4. duffaˈdar, n. View full entry 1800
...‘A petty officer of native police; and in regiments of Irregular Cavalry, a non-commissioned officer corresponding in rank to a corporal’ (Yule)....
5. fatwa, n. View full entry 1625
...A decision given (usually in writing) by a Mufti or other Muslim juridical authority....
6. firman, n. View full entry 1616
...An edict or order issued by an Oriental sovereign, esp. the Sultan of Turkey; a grant, licence, passport, permit....
7. foujdar, n. View full entry 1683
...‘In India, an officer of the Moghul Government, who was invested with the charge of the police, and jurisdiction in criminal matters. Also, used in Bengal last century for a criminal judge’...
8. ghaffir, n. View full entry 1831
...A native Egyptian policeman; a guardian, watchman....
9. Halachah | Halakah, n. View full entry 1856
...A legal decision regarding a matter or case for which there is no direct enactment in the Mosaic law, deduced by analogy from this law or from the Scriptures, and included as...
10. hatti, n. View full entry 1688
...During the Ottoman Empire: a decree or edict issued by the government of Turkey, differing from a firman in being personally approved of by the Sultan, and bearing his special...
11. kazi, n. View full entry 1625
...A civil judge; = cadi...
12. Mossad, n. View full entry 1954
...An underground organization formed in 1938 for the purpose of bringing Jews from Europe to Palestine. Now hist....
13. muchalka, n. View full entry 1679
...A written bond....
14. mufti, n.1 View full entry 1586
...Islam. A Muslim cleric or expert in Islamic law empowered to give rulings on religious matters, esp. a legal scholar competent to deliver a fatwa. In the Ottoman Empire:...
15. mukhtar, n. View full entry 1786
...Originally in the late Ottoman Empire and subsequently in Turkey and certain other successor states: the headman or local government chief of a town, district, village, or tribe. Also: a minor provincial...
16. munsif, n. View full entry 1779
...In South Asia: a judge; spec. a junior-grade judge in a civil court....
17. ryotwar, adj. View full entry 1812
...= ryotwari...
18. ryotwari, adj. and n. View full entry 1807
...Designating or relating to land tenure in India characterized by direct settlement between the government and the cultivators, without the intervention of a zamindar or landlord....
19. sanhedrim | sanhedrin, n. View full entry 1588
...‘The name applied to the highest court of justice and supreme council at Jerusalem, and in a wider sense also to lower courts of justice’ (W. Bacher in Hastings' Dict. of...
20. SAVAK, n. View full entry 1962
...The secret intelligence organization of Iran, established in 1957 and disbanded in 1979....
