Acknowledgement of a loan taken by Sayyed Hilal bin Said bin Mohammad bin Sulaiman Al-Busaidi from Ratansi Purshottam
Sayyed Hilal bin Said bin Mohammad bin Sulaiman Al-Busaidi acknowledges the loan of 243.75 silver coins (qurush) that he took from Ratansi and the [temporary] sale of land to Ratansi. Such temporary sales functioned in lieu of interest.
Functional document type: Private Deeds
Formal document type: Iqrar
Themes: Buying and Selling, Debt and Mortgage, Money, Property
Date:
Hijri-qamri calendar: 20 Shawwal 1305
Gregorian calendar:
30 June 1888
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invocation (top centre): Arabic
بمنّه تعالى
By the Grace of God
main text: Arabic
1اقر
السيد هلال بن سعيد بن محمد بن سليمان البسعيدي
بأن عليه
لرطنسيه بن برشوتم البانياني
ثلاثة ارباع قرش فضه
2و ثلاثة قروش افرنسيسيات فضة واربعين قرشا فضة افرنسيسياً و مأتين قرش فضة افرنسيسي و قد باع له بحقه
3هذا ماله القطعة اللذي شرقي الساقية من الباده التاسعة من
حيل الغاف
بما بها النخل والفسل والشجر و ماله
4من الحدود والطرق والسواقي مع مشربه المعتاد لسقيه من فلج
حیل الغاف
على دوب اواده بيع القطع وله الإقالة
5في ذلك الى مضي تسعة اشهر زمانا من يومنا هذا باقراره له بذلك بتاريخ
يوم العشرين من شهر شوال
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6و كتبه الفقير
حمود بن عبدالله بن محمد المنذري
بيده
1The Sayyed Hilal bin Said bin Mohammed bin Sulaiman Al-Busaidi acknowledges that he owes Ratansi bin Purshottam Al-Banyani three-quarters of a silver qirsh
2and three silver French qurush, and forty silver French qurush, and two hundred French qurush, and that he has sold to him his rights to
3this land that is east of the irrigation canal, including the ninth time-share in Hayl Al-Ghaf, and what it has in palms and saplings and trees and what appertains to it
4in terms of boundaries and roads and irrigation canals, and its usual amount of irrigation from the falaj of Hayl Al-Ghaf
…
[and this is] a complete sale, and he has the right to cancel
5it for up to nine months’ time from this date, by his acknowledgment of it, this twentieth day of Shawwal 1305.
6And it was written by the wretched Hamoud bin Abdullah bin Mohammed Al-Mandhiri, by his own hand.
a silver coin, equivalent to a Maria Theresa Dollar
a silver coin, equivalent to a Maria Theresa Dollar
a silver coin, equivalent to a Maria Theresa Dollar
a silver coin, equivalent to a Maria Theresa Dollar
a type of irrigation canal
Participants
Debtor:
Sayyed
Hilal bin Said bin Mohammad bin Sulaiman Al-Busaidi
Creditor:
Seth
Ratansi Purshottam
Writer:
Hamoud bin Abdullah bin Mohammed Al-Mandhiri
Language(s)
Arabic
Source
Vimal Purecha Family Collection, no shelfmark
Archival Collection: Ratansi Purshottam collection
Transcribed from manuscript image.
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