Content Structure of Lease Contracts of the Qajarid period historical documents, leases, Qajarids

Lease contracts may be legal, financial, private, or state documents. They can be utilized in writing social and economic history. This research aims to explain the value of such documents for historical research. This paper describes their structure in order to facilitate better description in archives.Method/Research Design: 250 leases held in the historical archives are examined.Findings and Leases contain principal as well as secondary elements. Principal elements are written based on Sharia' and have a fixed structure. Secondary elements reflect community traditions. Like other contracts, there were instructions which scribers employed in preparing leases. Leases contain valuable data such as genealogical, geographical, historical and legal information.