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Property, Inheritance and Land Tenure
- EnglishLaws relating to the following areas are deemed ordinary laws:
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- The fundamental principles of property laws, real property rights, … (Art. 65) - Arabicتتخذ شكل قوانين عادية النصوص المتعلقة ب:
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- المبادئ الأساسية لنظام الملكية والحقوق العينية. ... (الفصل 65) - FrenchSont pris sous forme de loi ordinaire, les textes relatifs :
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- aux principes fondamentaux du régime de la propriété et des droits réels ... (Art. 65)
Property, Inheritance and Land Tenure
- EnglishThe right of property is guaranteed. Every person has the right to the use, enjoyment, usufruct and disposal of his or her goods. … (Art. 115)
- SpanishSe garantiza el derecho de propiedad. Toda persona tiene derecho al uso, goce, disfrute y disposición de sus bienes. … (Art. 115)
Property, Inheritance and Land Tenure
- English
5. Agriculture and Livestock Breeding Sector
(a) Land administration;
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10. Management Sector
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(b) Administration of town and village land;
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11. Judicial Sector
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(d) Civil Laws and procedures including contract, arbitration, actionable wrong, insolvency, trust and trustees, administrator and receiver, family laws, guardians and wards, transfer of property and inheritance;
… (Schedule One, Union Legislative List [Section 96]) - Burmese
၅။ စိုက်ပျိုးရေးနှင့်မွေးမြူရေးကဏ္ဍ
(က) မြေယာစီမံခန့်ခွဲမှု၊
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၁၀။ စီမံခန့်ခွဲရေးကဏ္ဍ
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(ခ) ရွာမြေနှင့်မြို့မြေခန့်ခွဲရေး
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၁၁။ တရားစီရင်ရေးကဏ္ဍ
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(ဃ) တရားမဥပဒေများ၊ ကျင့်ထုံးများအပါအဝင်၊ ပဋိညာဉ်၊အနုညာတစီရင်ဆုံးဖြတ်ရေး၊ တရားစွဲဆိုပိုင်ခွင့်ရှိသော နစ်နာချက်များ၊ လူမွဲအဖြစ်ခံယူခြင်း၊ ယုံမှတ်အပ်နှံခြင်းနှင့်၊ ယုံမှတ်အပ်နှံထားသဖြင့် စီမံပိုင်ခွင့်ရှိသူများ၊ အမွေထိန်းနှင့်ပစ္စည်းထိန်း၊မိသားစုဆိုင်ရာဥပဒေများ၊အုပ်ထိန်းသူများနှင့် အုပ်ထိန်းခံရသူများ၊ ပစ္စည်းလွှဲပြောင်းခြင်း၊ အမွေဆက်ခံရေး၊
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Property, Inheritance and Land Tenure
- EnglishIt shall not be lawful or competent for any person to make any alienation or disposition of customary land or of any interest in customary land, whether by way of sale, mortgage or otherwise howsoever, nor shall customary land or any interest therein be capable of being taken in execution or be assets for the payment of the debts of any person on his decease or insolvency:
PROVIDED THAT an Act of Parliament may authorise:
(a) the granting of a lease or licence of any customary land or of any interest therein;
(b) the taking of any customary land or any interest therein for public purposes. (Art. 102) - SamoanO le a le tusa ai ma le tulafono po o le le mafai e so o se tagata ona faaliliueseina atu po o le aveesea mai ia te ia o eleele tau le aganuu po o se itu e tau atu ai i eleele tau le aganuu, i se auala o le faatau atu, lisi, laisene, mokesi, po o se tasi lava faiga, o le a le mafaia lava se eleele tau le aganuu po o se itu e tau i ai ona avea i le faamaapeina po o le fai ma mea e totogiina ai ni aitalafu a so o se tagata ina ua maliu po o le le mafai ona togia o aitalafu:
VAGANA AI ONA UA FAAPEA, o se Tulafono a le Palemene e mafai ona faatagaina:
(a) le tuuina atu o se lisi po o se laisene o so o se eleele faale-aganuu po o so o se itu e tau atu i ai i lea eleele;
(e) le aveina o so o se eleele faale-aganuu po o le tau i ai i lea eleele mo galuega tau le Malo. (Mataupu 102)
Property, Inheritance and Land Tenure
- EnglishThe State must take appropriate measures, including legislative measures, to give security of tenure to every person lawfully owning or occupying agricultural land. (Sec. 292)
Property, Inheritance and Land Tenure
- English(1) Subject to any restrictions imposed by law, every citizen shall have the right to acquire, hold, transfer or otherwise dispose of property, and no property shall be compulsorily acquired, nationalised or requisitioned save by authority of law.
… (Art. 42) - Bengali(১) আইনের দ্বারা আরোপিত বাধানিষেধ-সাপেক্ষে প্রত্যেক নাগরিকের সম্পত্তি অর্জন, ধারণ, হস্তান্তর বা অন্যভাবে বিলি-ব্যবস্থা করিবার অধিকার থাকিবে এবং আইনের কর্তৃত্ব ব্যতীত কোন সম্পত্তি বাধ্যতামূলকভাবে গ্রহণ, রাষ্ট্রায়ত্ত বা দখল করা যাইবে না।
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Property, Inheritance and Land Tenure
- EnglishLand in the cities is owned by the state.
Land in the rural and suburban areas is owned by collectives except for those portions which belong to the state in accordance with the law; house sites and private plots of cropland and hilly land are also owned by collectives.
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No organization or individual may appropriate, buy, sell or otherwise engage in the transfer of land by unlawful means. The right to the use of land may be transferred according to law.
All organizations and individuals who use land must make rational use of the land. (Art. 10) - Chinese城市的土地属于国家所有。
农村和城市郊区的土地,除由法律规定属于国家所有的以外,属于集体所有;宅基地和自留地、自留山,也属于集体所有。
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任何组织或者个人不得侵占、买卖或者以其他形式非法转让土地。土地的使用权可以依照法律的规定转让。
一切使用土地的组织和个人必须合理地利用土地。(第十条)
Property, Inheritance and Land Tenure
- EnglishThe State shall, by law, undertake an agrarian reform program founded on the right of farmers and regular farmworkers who are landless, to own directly or collectively the lands they till or, in the case of other farmworkers, to receive a just share of the fruits thereof. To this end, the State shall encourage and undertake the just distribution of all agricultural lands, subject to such priorities and reasonable retention limits as the Congress may prescribe, taking into account ecological, developmental, or equity considerations, and subject to the payment of just compensation. In determining retention limits, the State shall respect the right of small landowners. The State shall further provide incentives for voluntary land-sharing. (Art. XIII, Sec. 4)
- FilipinoDapat magsagawa ang Estado, sa pamamagitan ng batas, ng programa sa repormang pansakahan na nakasalig sa karapatan ng mga magsasaka at mga regular na manggagawa sa bukid, na mga walang lupa, na tuwiran o sama-samang magmay-ari ng mga lupang kanilang sinasaka o, sa kalagayan ng iba pang mga manggagawa sa bukid, tumanggap ng karampatang kaparte sa mga bunga niyon. Tungo sa layuning ito, dapat magpasigla at magsagawa ang Estado ng makatwirang pamamahagi ng lahat ng mga lupang pansakahan, na sasailalim sa mga priority at makatwirang mapapanatiling mga sukat na maaaring itakda ng Kongreso, na nagsasaalang-alang sa mga konsiderasyong pang-ekolohiya, pangkaunlaran, o pagkamatarungan, at batay sa pagbabayad ng makatwirang kabayaran. Dapat igalang ng Estado ang mga karapatan ng mga maliliit na may-ari ng lupa sa pagtatakda ng mga limitasyon sa retensyon. Dapat ding maglaan ang Estado ng mga insentibo para sa boluntaryong pagbabahagi ng lupa. (Art. XIII, Seksyon 4)
Property, Inheritance and Land Tenure
- English1. Parliament by enactment shall formalise the recognition of appropriate customary institutions or procedures to resolve land ownership or any disputes over custom land.
2. Parliament may recognise an institution as a customary institution by enactment for the purposes of subarticle (1).
... (Art. 78) - French1) Le Parlement formalise par la Loi la reconnaissance d’une institution coutumière compétente ou d’une procédure pertinente pour résoudre la question de propriété foncière ou tout litige lié aux terres coutumières.
2) Le Parlement peut, par la loi, reconnaître une institution coutumière aux fins du paragraphe 1).
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Property, Inheritance and Land Tenure
- EnglishThe State recognizes, protects and guarantees individual and communitarian or collective property of land, as long as it fulfills a social purpose or social economic purposes, as the case may be. (Art. 393)
- SpanishEl Estado reconoce, protege y garantiza la propiedad individual y comunitaria o colectiva de la tierra, en tanto cumpla una función social o una función económica social, según corresponda. (Art. 393)