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This article aims to present an assessment of Musa Efendi’s, a rural Kadi in Ottoman, life, family, his house, daily life, fortune, and his commercial activities. These assessments largely depend on the data obtained from court records. Court records are among the most important data sources to assess someone’s daily life activities. The events that contain clues of the social and economic structure of the society such as division of the inheritance, appointing an executor, disagreements between individuals, and commercial activities, which are brought to the court, play an important role in revealing the adventures of individuals, relationship between relatives, and the structure of families. In this context, by referencing the court records by Musa Efendi who was a Kadi in different cities and died during his mission as a Kadi in Konya, this paper will attempt to reveal his life, albeit partially, and a general assessment of his socio-economic status and family ties. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]