Concerning lease instruments relating to Awqaf properties

Type

Decision

Number

79

Date of the text

29/01/1926

Official Gazette

published in 1926

Status today

In force as of 27/08/2026

Articles

6

What it provides

This decision limits long leases of waqf property to single or double leases or the muqata'a arrangement, caps a single lease at ninety-nine years, and bars the sharia courts from validating any other long-lease instrument, which it declares void.

The full text

This act was published in the Lebanese Official Gazette in 1926. Its full text and the original scan are in the Gherbal National Gazette archive.