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In this way here, as in the East, the crown• Iands and agri deserti passed from the government to the private individual8• The tax, payable by the tenant, was determined by the individual contract but, according · to the theorists, tenants only paid a tenth of the pro· ceeds9• They, indeed, were not better off than the ordinary {l) Kremer, Einnahmebudgei der Abbasiden, 309, 823; Qodamah, 289 : Wuz, 189.
Thus the property of Khatib al-Baghdadi (200 dinars) passed, after his death, to the State7• According to a saying of the Prophet : " A Muslim cannot inherit from an unbeliever and vice-versa" ; the Caliph in 311/923 rules that the property of heirless Christians and Jews should pass on to their respective communities and not to the State8• Among the jurists many principles, surprisingly modern were fought out, such as the principle that property should go to the State in· preference to distant kindred.
Some such practice was, indeed, legalized in England in the 13th Century but in Islam it was never applied to the propery of deceased Muslims5• · In 401/1010 a considerable sum of money was brought to the Buwayyid Governor at Baghdad, which had been class of' sharers ' or 'Residuaries,' or 'distant kindred' are entitled to succeed to the inheritance depends on the circumstances of each case.