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'File 18/4 Jurisdiction Over Foreigners in Qatar: Qatar Order in Council' [97v] (194/520)
The record is made up of 1 file (260 folios). It was created in 18 Jul 1935-14 Oct 1950. It was written in English and Arabic. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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50 . — (i) If an Officer of the Court, employed to execute a
decree or order, loses, by neglect or omission, the opportunity
of executing it, then, on complaint of the person aggrieved and
proof of the fact alleged, the Court may, if it thinks fit, order
the Officer to pay the damages sustained by the person com
plaining, or part thereof.
f2) The order may be enforced as an order directing payment
oi|r^oney.
Part V.— Mixed Cases: Qatar Subjects and Persons
Subject to this Order.
(a) Criminal.
51 . When a Qatar subject desires to institute a complaint
against a person to whom this order applies, or a person to
whom this order applies desires to institute a complaint against
a Qatar subject, the
Political Agent
A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency.
shall entertain the same
and send it to the Joint Court.
(b) Civil.
52 . — (i) When a Qatar subject desires to bring a suit against
a person to whom this order applies, or a person to whom
^Ms order applies desires to bring a suit against a Qatar subject,
tne
Political Agent
A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency.
shall admit the complaint and refer it to
a Joint Court.
(2) Nothing herein mentioned shall prevent the Joint Court
from referring any matter in the progress of a suit which in
volves a point of Mahommedan law to a Kazi for decision, or
from sending any party or witness, being a Mahommadan, to
a Kazi for the administration of an oath.
53 . — (1) Where a person to whom this Order does not apply
obtains, in a Court established under this Order, a decree
or order against a defendant, being a person subject to this
Order, and in another suit that defendant is plaintiff and the
person to whom this Order does not apply is defendant, the
Court may, if it thinks fit, on the application of the person
subject to^ this Order, stay the enforcement of the decree or
order pending that other suit, and may set off any amount
decreed or ordered to be paid by one party in one suit against
any amount decreed or ordered to be paid by the other party
in the other suit.
(2) Where a plaintiff, being a person to whom this Order does
not apply, obtains a decree or order, in a Court established
under this Order, against two or more defendants being persons
subject to this Order jointly, and in another suit one of them is
a plaintiff and the person to whom this Order does not apply
is defendant, the Court may, if it thinks fit, on the application
of the persons subject to this Order, stay the enforcement of
the decree or order pending that other suit, and may set off any
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This file contains correspondence between British officials regarding jurisdiction over foreigners in Qatar as per the Order in Council A regulation issued by the sovereign of the United Kingdom on the advice of the Privy Council. agreed between the two countries. The file contains correspondence regarding the wording and details of the Order in Council A regulation issued by the sovereign of the United Kingdom on the advice of the Privy Council. and contains versions of the document from 1938 (folios 156-171) and 1939 (folios 244-259) as well a draft from 1937 (folios 88-103).
Much of the correspondence compares the situation in Qatar with Bahrain, Muscat and Kuwait and a copy of the Kuwait Order in Council A regulation issued by the sovereign of the United Kingdom on the advice of the Privy Council. (1935) is contained on folios 226-233.
The file also contains a limited amount of correspondence in Arabic (with English translations) between the ruler of Qatar, Shaikh ‘Abdullāh bin Jāsim Āl Thānī and the Political Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. in Bahrain.
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- 1 file (260 folios)
- Arrangement
The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the front to the rear of the file.
- Physical characteristics
Foliation: the main foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1 and terminates at the inside back cover with 260; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio. An additional foliation sequence is also present in parallel between ff 2-218; these numbers are written in a combination of blue ink and pencil, but are not circled (except for a few circled numbers which have been crossed out).
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- IOR/R/15/2/2004
- Title
- 'File 18/4 Jurisdiction Over Foreigners in Qatar: Qatar Order in Council'
- Pages
- front, front-i, 2r:137v, 138v:147v, 148v:204v, 205v:211v, 212v:213v, 214v:259v, back-i, back
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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