During my research in the Ottoman registers at he shari’a court in Beirut, I came across an unusual register titled ‘wuqu’at kharijiya 4: 1322-1325’, which would translate roughly as ‘external occurrences or data 4: 1904-1908’. Number 4 probably means volume 4. Based on a preliminary reading of the contents of the register, it is evident that court representatives and at times judges attended to people’s legal affairs in homes, hotels, and hospitals. A significant number of cases involve high profile Beiruti families, both Christian and Muslim. The entries in the register include: power of attorney drawn in Arabic and Ottoman Turkish, high profile inheritance cases, charitable endowments, and the appointment of guardians. The purpose of my paper is to shed light on this important legal practice during the late Ottoman period. The importance of the register lies in the questions that it raises. My paper hence seeks to answer the following questions: 1- How does the practice of ‘mobile’ justice fit within the context of Ottoman legal reforms? 2- What can we learn about the local practice of justice in late Ottoman Beirut? 3- What was the gender, socioeconomic, and religious background of people who requested such services? 4- What trends, if any, emerge from studying the entries in the register? 5- What new understandings of the role, function, and activities of the shari’a court can we gain by examining the practice of administering justice outside the confines of the courtroom? Despite the centrality of sectarian personal status laws to the sectarian system in modern-day Lebanon, studies that have attempted to examine the functioning of the legal system during the late Ottoman period remain very rare. By examining the contents of the register mentioned above, I hope to make a humble contribution toward a better historical understanding of the legal system during the late Ottoman period.