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Property, Inheritance and Land Tenure
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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)
Property, Inheritance and Land Tenure
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1. Private, state, municipal and other forms of property are equally recognised and protected in the Kyrgyz Republic.
2. Property is inviolable. No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his property. The right to inherit is guaranteed.
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4. The Kyrgyz Republic protects the property of its citizens and legal entities, as well as its property located in foreign countries.
... (Art. 15) - Russian
1. В Кыргызской Республике в равной степени признаются и защищаются частная, государственная, муниципальная и иные формы собственности.
2. Собственность неприкосновенна. Никто не может быть произвольно лишен своего имущества. Право наследования гарантируется.
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4. Кыргызская Республика защищает собственность своих граждан и юридических лиц, а также свою собственность, находящуюся на территории иностранных государств.
... (Статья 15) - Kyrgyz
1. Кыргыз Республикасында менчиктин жеке, мамлекеттик, муниципалдык жана башка түрлөрү бирдей деңгээлде таанылат жана корголот.
2. Менчик кол тийгис. Эч ким өзүм билемдик менен мүлкүнөн ажыратылбайт. Мурастоо укугу кепилденет.
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4. Кыргыз Республикасы өз жарандарынын жана юридикалык жактарынын менчигин, ошондой эле чет мамлекеттердин аймагында жайгашкан өзүнүн менчигин коргойт.
... (15-берене)
Property, Inheritance and Land Tenure
- English1 The right to own property is guaranteed.
… (Art. 26) - French1 La propriété est garantie.
… (Art. 26) - German1 Das Eigentum ist gewährleistet.
… (Art. 26) - Italian1 La proprietà è garantita.
… (Art. 26)
Property, Inheritance and Land Tenure
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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)
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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3. The State may give for private ownership a land, except pasturage and land under public utilization and state's special use, only to the citizens of Mongolia.
… (Art. 6) - Mongolian
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3. Бэлчээр, нийтийн эдэлбэрийн ба улсын тусгай хэрэгцээнийхээс бусад газрыг зөвхөн Монгол Улсын иргэнд өмчлүүлж болно.
… (Зургадугаар зүйл)
Property, Inheritance and Land Tenure
- EnglishThe national government shall take positive action to attain these national objectives and implement these national policies:
... protection of the safety and security of persons and property;
… (Art. VI)
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.
… (Art. 7) - Dzongkha
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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།
་་་༼རྩ་ཚན་༧༽
Property, Inheritance and Land Tenure
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5. Laws relating to family affairs (marriage, transfer of property, divorce, persons on the verge of extinction, orphan, adoption, succession and joint family)
6. Acquisition, requisitioning of property and creation of right in property
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24. Land policies and laws relating thereto
… (Schedule 7, List of Concurrent (federal and provincial) Powers/Jurisdiction) - Nepali…
(५) पारिवारिक मामिला (विवाह, सम्पत्ति हस्तान्तरण, सम्बन्ध विच्छेद, लोपोन्मुख, टुहुरा, धर्मपुत्र, धर्मपुत्री उत्तराधिकार र संयुक्त परिवार) सम्बन्धी कानून
(६) सम्पत्ति प्राप्ति, अधिग्रहण र अधिकारको सृजना
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(२४) भूमि नीति र सो सम्बन्धी कानून
... (अनुसूची–७, संघ र प्रदेशको साझा अधिकारको सूची)