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11-698: According to the Corps de droit ottoman , the ministry included: Circa 1905 the budget of the ministry was 495,300 Ottoman lira out of 954,364 for the government. Other departments included: In 1913 the Office for the Settlement of Tribes and Immigrants was established to deal with the refugee crisis following the Balkan Wars . The office played an important role during the Armenian genocide . Previously

22-682: A second secretary. An archivist and other officials assisted him in his efforts. He had no background in Asian studies nor in law. Young used non-public material, including the archives of the UK embassy in Constantinople, to build his book. In regards to the embassy archival work Hogarth stated that it was done "under certain well-known restrictions, of course". Each book has a table of contents, as well as an introduction written in English. There

33-578: Is a credit" to his publishers and to the British diplomatic staff. Law Quarterly Review The Law Quarterly Review is a peer-reviewed academic journal covering common law throughout the world. It was established in 1885 and is published by Sweet & Maxwell . It is one of the leading law journals in the United Kingdom . The LQR ' s founding editor was Frederick Pollock , then Corpus Professor of Jurisprudence at

44-520: Is no index. Young provided explanatory notes for each category. Volume I describes law relating to the courts and government, including immovable property. Volume II describes law relating to the military, non-Muslim millets , and public order. Volume III describes foreign affairs, maritime affairs, and public health. Hogarth wrote that the book highlights "the inferior position which British capital and enterprise hold in Turkey in comparison with

55-783: The Grand Vizier , upon the counsel of his advisor, managed the internal affairs of the state, but in 1860 a western-style ministry of the interior was established as part of a reform of the empire's administration. Ministry of the Interior (Turkey) currently governs domestic affairs in Turkey. Sources: This Turkish politics -related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Corps de droit ottoman Corps de droit ottoman; recueil des codes, lois, règlements, ordonnances et actes les plus importants du droit intérieur, et d'études sur le droit coutumier de l'Empire ottoman ("Ottoman Body of Law: Compendium

66-802: The University of Oxford . Founded in 1885, it is one of the oldest law journals in the English-speaking world, after only the University of Pennsylvania Law Review and the South African Law Journal . The editors' intention was that the journal would help to establish law as a worthy field of academic study. In this purpose it has "triumphed". In the first volume alone its contributors included, in addition to Pollock himself, Sir William Anson , Albert Venn Dicey , and Thomas Erskine Holland , each of whom had assisted in

77-562: The Most Important Codes, Laws, Regulations, and Acts of Domestic Law, and Studies of Customary Law, of the Ottoman Empire") is a 1905–1906 seven-volume French-language collection of Ottoman Empire law edited by George Young (1872–1952), published by Clarendon Press in the United Kingdom . D. G. Hogarth of The English Historical Review wrote that the author's main concern was constituent legislation and that

88-754: The capital and enterprise of other nations, notably the French." Hogarth also stated "Whenever possible he puts in a good word for the existing régime in Turkey" and that "It is obvious that (as he warns us in his preface) he has not said the whole truth in every case. Certain susceptibilities and interests have had to be considered." Hogarth praised the book, stating that there was no hitherto book covering its ground. Hogarth concluded "We hope enough has been said to recommend these valuable volumes to historical students." He stated that it would have been nice had Ottoman Turkish original documents been included, as that while there were relatively few people who would study

99-530: The founding of the journal, as well as Oliver Wendell Holmes , F. W. Maitland , T. E. Scrutton (later Lord Justice ), James Fitzjames Stephen , and Paul Vinogradoff . Pollock edited the LQR for its first 35 years (1885-1919). He was succeeded by A. E. Randall, then editor of Leake's Law of Contracts . When Randall died suddenly in April 1925, Pollock returned to edit the final two issues of that year. From 1926

110-423: The originals, including the originals would have benefited them and the inclusion "unquestionably would have secured the fame of this book as a permanent and final work of reference." Hogarth added that there were some minor errors, "but none of much importance." Law Quarterly Review wrote that while the work was not likely to be read by a large audience, "he has made excellent use of his opportunities" and "it

121-640: The work "is not intended to be a complete publication of either the civil or the criminal code in use." Part I, Volumes I–III, were published in 1905, while Part II, Volumes IV–VI, were published in 1906. Young worked for Embassy of the United Kingdom in the Ottoman Empire in Constantinople (now Istanbul ). At the time of publication he worked for the Embassy of the United Kingdom in Spain as

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