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Coll 30/19 'Persian Gulf: Kuwait and Muscat, Persian Request for Service of Judicial Documents upon Persons Resident in' [84r] (167/172)
The record is made up of 1 file (84 folios). It was created in 10 Dec 1931-27 Oct 1933. It was written in English. 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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The attached documents consist of a notification in triplicate
issued through the Court of Justice in Bushire by the tailor
Ustad Evaz Daghayeqi of Bushire against His Excellency
Haji Sheikh Ahmad, Sheikh of Kuwait, a Kuwait National, to
the following effect :
’’That on the complaint of Ustad Evaz against Abdul Karim
Haji Uryan, the Sheikh of Kuwait arrested the latter who
^subsequently arranged to pay Ustad Evaz’ claim during one
year. As security for the enforcement of this arrangement
the house of the debtor was confiscated by the Sheikh who
fixed a rent of
Rupees
Indian silver coin also widely used in the Persian Gulf.
8 per mensem for the same stating
that.if the debtor failed to fulfill his promise, he (the
Sheikh) will definitely self-appropriate the house and pay
the debt. Three years instead of one year have now elapsed
since this arrangement and none of the three petitions
of Ustad Evaz to the Sheikh has been favoured with a reply.
Ustad Evaz now requests to know what the Sheikh has done in
order to collect this debt. The
writer
The lowest of the four classes into which East India Company civil servants were divided. A Writer’s duties originally consisted mostly of copying documents and book-keeping.
requests that the
result of the steps of the Sheikh may be written by himself
on the opposite column and returned to him”.
These notifications are usually issued by claimants
on persons amenable to Persian jurisdiction with the purpose
that the debtor may keep one copy and write a reply on the
two other copies and send them back to the claimant thiough
the court. The matter of sending a reply on the two
copies is optional but the signature and return of two of
the copies through the court is obligatory for those amenable
to Persian jurisdiction. The idea is to try to get the
claim
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This file contains correspondence between British officials concerning the legality, political context and practicalities involved in the possible extradition of a number of individuals, primarily Persian subjects, from Kuwait and Muscat to Persia at request of the Government of Persia. As such, the file contains a number of English language translations of letters (and relevant court summons) from the Persian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
In addition, the file also contains the following documents:
- A memorandum related to legal summons issued by foreign countries and Britain's responsibility to respond to them (folios 55-56)
- 'Memorandum as to the Obtaining of Evidence in England for Foreign Tribunals in Civil and Commercial Matters' (folios 57-60)
- 'Memorandum as to the Obtaining of Evidence in Scotland and Northern Ireland for Foreign Tribunals in Civil and Commercial Matters' (folio 61).
The file includes a divider, which gives a list of correspondence references contained in the file by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.
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- 1 file (84 folios)
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The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the file.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 86; these numbers are written in pencil 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.
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- IOR/L/PS/12/3730
- Title
- Coll 30/19 'Persian Gulf: Kuwait and Muscat, Persian Request for Service of Judicial Documents upon Persons Resident in'
- Pages
- 12r:13v, 30r:30v, 36r:39v, 53r:54v, 83r:85v
- Author
- Government of Iran
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