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Property, Inheritance and Land Tenure
- EnglishThe 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)
- SpanishEl Estado reconocerá la existencia de los pueblos y comunidades indígenas, su organización social, política y económica, sus culturas, usos y costumbres, idiomas y religiones, así como su hábitat y derechos originarios sobre las tierras que ancestral y tradicionalmente ocupan y que son necesarias para desarrollar y garantizar sus formas de vida. Corresponderá al Ejecutivo Nacional, con la participación de los pueblos indígenas, demarcar y garantizar el derecho a la propiedad colectiva de sus tierras, las cuales serán inalienables, imprescriptibles, inembargables e intransferibles de acuerdo con lo establecido en esta Constitución y en la ley. (Art. 119)
Property, Inheritance and Land Tenure
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F. The economic system is free, guaranteeing individual initiative and private ownership.
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و. النظام الاقتصادي حر يكفل المبادرة الفردية و الملكية الخاصة
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Property, Inheritance and Land Tenure
- EnglishWE, THE PEOPLE OF FIJI,
RECOGNISING the indigenous people or the iTaukei, their ownership of iTaukei lands, their unique culture, customs, traditions and language;
RECOGNISING the indigenous people or the Rotuman from the island of Rotuma, their ownership of Rotuman lands, their unique culture, customs, traditions and language;
… (Preamble) - iTaukeiO KEIMAMI NA LEWEI VITI,
ROKOVA na itaukei ni vanua se kawa itaukei, na nodra taukena na kedra qele, na nodra itovo, ivakarau kei na vosa;
ROKOVA na itaukei ni vanua o Rotuma, mai na yanuyanu o Rotuma, na nodra taukena na kedra qele, nodra itovo, ivakarau kei na vosa;
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Property, Inheritance and Land Tenure
- English(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)
Property, Inheritance and Land Tenure
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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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༩) འབྲུག་པའི་མི་སེར་ཅིག་ལུ་ རྒྱུ་དངོས་བདག་བཟུང་གི་ཐོབ་དབང་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་རུང་ སྤྱི་ཚོགས་ཀྱིས་བརྩམས་པའི་ ཁྲིམས་དང་འཁྲིལ་ཏེ་མ་གཏོགས་ འབྲུག་པའི་མི་སེར་མ་ཡིན་མི་ཅིག་ལུ་ ས་ཆའམ་ བསྒུལ་མེད་ཀྱི་རྒྱུ་དངོས་གང་རུང་ཅིག་ བཙོང་ནི་ ཡང་ན་ མིང་ཐོ་སྤོ་ནིའི་ཐོབ་དབང་མེད།
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Property, Inheritance and Land Tenure
- EnglishThe Union shall protect the privacy and security of home, property, correspondence and other communications of citizens under the law subject to the provisions of this Constitution. (Sec. 357)
- Burmeseဤဖွဲ့စည်းပုံအခြေခံဥပဒေပါ ပြဌာန်းချက်များနှင့် မဆန့်ကျင်လျှင် နိုင်ငံတော်သည် နိုင်ငံသား များ၏ နေအိမ်ဥပစာလုံခြုံမှု၊ ပစ္စည်းလုံခြုံမှု၊ စာပေးစာယူနှင့် အခြားဆက်သွယ်ရေးဆိုင်ရာ လုံခြုံမှု များအတွက် ဥပဒေအရ ကာကွယ်ပေးရမည်။ (ပုဒ်မ-၃၅၇)
Property, Inheritance and Land Tenure
- English(1) Only citizens other than citizens who have dual citizenship may-
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(b) acquire freehold land.
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Property, Inheritance and Land Tenure
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II. In the framework of the unity of the State, and in accordance with this Constitution, the nations and rural native indigenous peoples enjoy the following rights:
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6. To the collective ownership of land and territories.
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17. To autonomous indigenous territorial management, and to the exclusive use and exploitation of renewable natural resources existing in their territory without prejudice to the legitimate rights acquired by third parties.
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II. En el marco de la unidad del Estado y de acuerdo con esta Constitución las naciones y pueblos indígena originario campesinos gozan de los siguientes derechos:
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6. A la titulación colectiva de tierras y territorios.
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17. A la gestión territorial indígena autónoma, y al uso y aprovechamiento exclusivo de los recursos naturales renovables existentes en su territorio sin perjuicio de los derechos legítimamente adquiridos por terceros.
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Property, Inheritance and Land Tenure
- English(1) Majlis-e-Shoora (Parliament) may by law--
(a) prescribe the maximum limits as to property or any class thereof which may be owned, held, possessed or controlled by any person;
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(2) Any law which permits a person to own beneficially or possess beneficially an area of land greater than that which, immediately before the commencing day, he could have lawfully owned beneficially or possessed beneficially shall be invalid. (Art. 253) - Urdu(۱) مجلس شوریٰ (پارلیمنٹ) بذریعہ قانون --
(الف) ایسی جائیداد یا اس کی کسی قسم کے بارے میں جو کوئی شخص ملکیت،تصرف،قبضہ یا نگرانی میں رکھ سکے گا انتہائی تحدیدات مقررکر سکے گی؛
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(٢) کوئی قانون جو کسی شخص کو اس رقبہ اراضی سے زیادہ اراضی کی منفعتی ملکیت یا منفعتی قبضہ کی اجازت دے جو وہ یوم آغاز سے عین قبل جائز طور پر منفعتی ملکیت میں رکھ سکتا تھا یا قبضہ میں لا سکتا تھا، کالعدم ہو گا۔(آرٹیکل ۲۵۳)
Property, Inheritance and Land Tenure
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(1) Every person in Tuvalu is entitled, whatever his race, place of origin, political opinions, colour, religious beliefs or lack of religious beliefs, disability, or sex, to the following fundamental rights and freedoms: -
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(h) protection for the privacy of his home and other property (see section 21); and
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