Foreigners are admitted by the same privilege as Ottoman
subjects, and without any other restriction, to enjoy the right of
holding real estate, whether in the city or the country, throughout the
Empire, with the exception of the Province of the Hedjaz, by submitting
themselves to the laws and the regulations which govern Ottoman subjects
as is hereafter stated.
This arrangement does not concern subjects of Ottoman birth who have
changed their nationality, who shall be governed in this matter by a
special law.
ART. II. Foreigners, proprietors of real estate in town or in country,
are in consequence placed upon terms of equality with Ottoman subjects
in all things that concern their landed property.
The legal effect of this equality is--
First. To oblige them to conform to all the laws and regulations of the
police or of the municipality which govern at present or may govern
hereafter the enjoyment, the transmission, the alienation, and the
hypothecation of landed property.
Second. To pay all charges and taxes, under whatever form or
denomination they may be, that are levied, or may be levied hereafter,
upon city or country property.
Third. To render them directly amenable to the Ottoman civil tribunals
in all questions relating to landed property and in all real actions,
whether as plaintiffs or as defendants, even when either party is a
foreigner.
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