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Property, Inheritance and Land Tenure
- EnglishThe official religion of Iran is Islam and the Twelver Ja'farî school [in usul al-Dîn and fiqh], and this principle will remain eternally immutable. Other Islamic schools, including the Hanafî, Shafi'î, Malikî, Hanbalî, and Zaydî, are to be accorded full respect, and their followers are free to act in accordance with their own jurisprudence in performing their religious rites. These schools enjoy official status in matters pertaining to religious education, affairs of personal status (marriage, divorce, inheritance, and wills) and related litigation in courts of law. … (Art. 12)
- Persianدین رسمی ایران، اسلام و مذهب جعفری اثنی عشری است و این اصل الیالابد غیرقابل تغییر است و مذاهب دیگر اسلامی اعم از حنفی، شافعی، مالکی، حنبلی و زیدی دارای احترام کامل میباشند و پیروان این مذاهب در انجام مراسم مذهبی، طبق فقه خودشان آزادند و در تعلیم و تربیت دینی و احوال شخصیه (ازدواج، طلاق، ارث و وصیت) و دعاوی مربوط به آن در دادگاهها رسمیت دارند و. ... (اصل 12)
Property, Inheritance and Land Tenure
- EnglishThe State shall protect the social and economic development of the family and shall organize the family homestead, determining the nature and amount of property that must constitute it, on the basis that it is inalienable and un-attachable. (Art. 62)
- SpanishEl Estado velará por el mejoramiento social y económico de la familia y organizará el patrimonio familiar determinando la naturaleza y cuantía de los bienes que deban constituirlo, sobre la base de que es inalienable e inembargable. (Art. 62)
Property, Inheritance and Land Tenure
- EnglishThe right of inheritance is guaranteed. (Art. 46)
- RomanianDreptul la moştenire este garantat. (Art. 46)
Property, Inheritance and Land Tenure
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5. Women shall have the right to own property and share in the estates of their deceased husbands together with any surviving legal heir of the deceased. (Art. 16)
Property, Inheritance and Land Tenure
- English
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
- English(1) Subject to the provisions of subsections (4), (5) and (7), no law shall make any provision that is discriminatory either of itself or in its effect.
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(3) In this section, the expression “discriminatory” means affording different treatment to different persons attributable wholly or mainly to their respective descriptions by sex, race, place of origin, political opinions, colour or creed whereby persons of one such description are subjected to disabilities or restrictions to which persons of another such description are not made subject or are accorded privileges or advantages which are not accorded to persons of another such description.
(4) Subsection (1) shall not apply to any law so far as that law makes provision—
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(c) for the application, in the case of persons of any such description as is mentioned in subsection (3) (or of persons connected with such persons), of the law with respect to adoption, marriage, divorce, burial, devolution of property on death or other like matters which is the personal law of persons of that description;
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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
- English1. The judicial power of Uganda shall be exercised by the courts of judicature which shall consist of-
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d. such subordinate courts as Parliament may by law establish, including qadhis courts for marriage, divorce, inheritance of property and guardianship, as may be prescribed by Parliament.
… (Art. 129)
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
- EnglishProperty shall be safe from violation. No one shall be forbidden from owning property and acquiring it, unless limited by the provisions of law. ... (Art. 40)
- Dariملكیت از تعرض مصؤن است. هیچ شخص از كسب ملكیت و تصرف در آن منع نمی شود، مگر در حدود احكام قانون. ... (مادۀ ۴۰)
- Pashtoملكيت له تيري څخه خوندى دى. هېڅوك د ملكيت د ترلاسه كولو او په هغه كې له تصرف كولو څخه نه منع كېږي، مگر د قانون د احكامو په حدودوكې. (۴۰ ماده)