Comment by dotancohen
2 years ago
Thank you. You are correct, I did not want to make an already-complicated matter more complicated for purpose of discussion, as the relevant part (real estate) remained Ottoman.
2 years ago
Thank you. You are correct, I did not want to make an already-complicated matter more complicated for purpose of discussion, as the relevant part (real estate) remained Ottoman.
Thanks.
As far as I’m aware, the reason why the UK retained Ottoman real estate law in Mandatory Palestine was pragmatic rather than due to any international obligation that they do so-all the existing land titles were based on Ottoman law, changing them to a different system of real estate law would have involved a lot of work for little practical benefit, so the British decided to leave the existing Ottoman system in place. But, if they’d felt strongly enough about it, they could have done otherwise