Revival of Dead Land and Demarcation

Question: There may be two neighboring villages. The people of one of them have wide, far-stretching maḥājir, while the people of the other village have no maḥājir; indeed they are very constrained, and the people of the first village permit...

Question: A group lodged a claim against a man’s heirs that their ancestor had consumed from the maḥājir that were shared between him and them more than his portion; he had been the agent for all of them in litigation...

Question: A man took from the debtor’s maḥjar the shares of four liable parties—namely his own share and the shares of three of his sons. After some time, the man wanted to divide those four portions among his three sons...

Question: Does the fusḥah (concession of space) practiced by the people of our lands entail ownership?

Question: If a man has trees in a piece of land, and the water of that land flows to another man’s farm, and all of that has been acknowledged; then a third man comes and claims that he is entitled...

Question: Does a man own the place from which he extracted stones by blasting?

Question: A frequently recurring incident is that people in these lands have hastened to revive tracts of land and to sell and buy them, and there are roads that pass through these demarcated plots which people habitually use to go...