caa a22 4500 378857398 CHVBK 20180305123338.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161128e20031002xx s 000 0 eng 10.2202/1565-3404.1074 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)gruyter-10.2202/1565-3404.1074 Colonialism, Colonization and Land Law in Mandate Palestine: The Zor al-Zarqa and Barrat Qisarya Land Disputes in Historical Perspective [Elektronische Daten] [Geremy Forman, Alexandre Kedar] This article focuses on land rights, land law, and land administration within a multilayered colonial setting by examining a major land dispute in British-ruled Palestine (1917-1948). Our research reveals that the Mandate legal system extinguished indigenous rights to much land in the Zor al-Zarqa and Barrat Qisarya regions through its use of "colonial law"--the interpretation of Ottoman law by colonial officials, the use of foreign legal concepts, and the transformation of Ottoman law through supplementary legislation. However, the colonial legal system was also the site of local resistance by some Palestinian Arabs attempting to remain on their land in the face of the pressure of the Mandate authorities and Jewish colonization officials. This article sheds light on the dynamics of the Mandate legal system and colonial law in the realm of land tenure relations. It also suggests that the joint efforts of Mandate and Jewish colonization officials to appropriate land and undertake "development" operations in the area were fueled by neither the interests of colonial rule nor those of Jewish colonization alone, but, rather, by the integrated impact of both forces. ©2011 Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG, Berlin/Boston Forman Geremy University of Haifa aut Kedar Alexandre University of Haifa aut Theoretical Inquiries in Law De Gruyter 4/2(2003-10-02) 4:2 2003 4 til https://doi.org/10.2202/1565-3404.1074 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.2202/1565-3404.1074 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Forman Geremy University of Haifa aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Kedar Alexandre University of Haifa aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Theoretical Inquiries in Law De Gruyter 4/2(2003-10-02) 4:2 2003 4 til CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-gruyter