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(1) Every person has the right to own, use, enjoy, sell, and transfer property.
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(15) Land and buildings other than land and buildings vested in the Crown and specifically appropriated to the use of the Government, including holding of land by persons who are not citizens.
… (Schedule 5 - Legislative Powers, Part 1 - Matters with respect to which the Nevis Island Legislature has exclusive power to make laws)

Everyone shall have the right to ownership and inheritance. … (Art. 32)

Every person has the right to property. ... (Art. 22)

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iii. In furtherance of social justice, the State may regulate the acquisition, ownership, use and disposition of land and other property, in accordance with the Constitution. (National Objectives and Directive Principles of State Policy, XI)

The State recognizes the existence of native peoples and communities, their social, political and economic organization, their cultures, practices and customs, languages and religions, as well as their habitat and original rights to the lands they ancestrally and traditionally occupy, and which are necessary to develop and guarantee their way of life. It shall be the responsibility of the National Executive, with the participation of the native peoples, to demarcate and guarantee the right to collective ownership of their lands, which shall be inalienable, not subject to the law of limitations or distrait, and nontransferable, in accordance with this Constitution and the law. (Art. 119)

1. Everyone has the right to ownership of his or her lawful income, savings, housing, chattels, means of production and capital contributions to enterprises or other economic entities.
2. The right to private ownership and the right to inheritance shall be protected by law.
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[The following] are of the domain of the law:
The rules concerning the following matters:
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– … the status and the capacity of persons, the matrimonial regimes, inheritance and gifts;
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The fundamental principles:
– of the regime of property [and] of civil and commercial rights and obligations;
… (Art. 80)

(1) The State may alienate for value any agricultural land vested in it, whether through the transfer of ownership to any other person or through the grant of a lease or other right of occupation or use, but any such alienation must be in accordance with the principles specified in section 289.
(2) The State may not alienate more than one piece of agricultural land to the same person and his or her dependants.
(3) An Act of Parliament must prescribe procedures for the alienation and allocation of agricultural land by the State, and any such law must be consistent with the principles specified in section 289. (Sec. 293)

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9. A Bhutanese citizen shall have the right to own property, but shall not have the right to sell or transfer land or any immovable property to a person who is not a citizen of Bhutan, except in keeping with laws enacted by Parliament.
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