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Property, Inheritance and Land Tenure
- EnglishWithout prejudice to the right of ownership and as laid down by law, the state shall promote the resizing of farming units that are smaller than that which is suitable from the point of view of the agricultural policy objectives, particularly by means of legal, fiscal and credit incentives for their structural or merely economic integration, particularly in a cooperative form, or by measures designed to join parcels of land together. (Art. 95)
- PortugueseSem prejuízo do direito de propriedade, o Estado promoverá, nos termos da lei, o redimensionamento das unidades de exploração agrícola com dimensão inferior à adequada do ponto de vista dos objectivos da política agrícola, nomeadamente através de incentivos jurídicos, fiscais e creditícios à sua integração estrutural ou meramente económica, designadamente cooperativa, ou por recurso a medidas de emparcelamento. (Art. 95)
Property, Inheritance and Land Tenure
- English(1) The State must promote full gender balance in Zimbabwean society, and in particular—
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(c) the State and all institutions and agencies of government at every level must take practical measures to ensure that women have access to resources, including land, on the basis of equality with men.
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Property, Inheritance and Land Tenure
- Englisha. Ownership, capital and work—in accordance with the principles of Islamic justice— are basic constituents of the social entity of the State and the national wealth, and are all individual rights with a social function regulated by law.
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c. Private ownership is protected.
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g. The State shall make the necessary arrangements to ensure the exploitation of land suitable for productive farming, and shall strive to raise the standards of farmers. The law lays down how small farmers are to be helped and how they can own their land.
… (Art. 9) - Arabicأ - المِلُكيـة ورأس المال والعمل، وفقاً لمبادئ العدالة الإسلامية، مقومات أساسية لكيان الدولة الاجتماعي وللثروة الوطنية، وهي جميعا حقوق فردية ذات وظيفة اجتماعية ينظمها القانون.
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ج - الملكية الخاصة مصونة
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ز - تتخذ الدولة التدابير اللازمة من أجل تحقيق استغلال الأراضي الصالحة للزراعة بصورة مثمرة، وتعمل على رفع مستوى الفلاح، ويحدد القانون وسائل مساعدة صغار المزارعين وتمليكهم الأراضي.
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Property, Inheritance and Land Tenure
- EnglishSubject to any limitation imposed by law, an owner or occupier of agricultural land has the right to transfer, hypothecate, lease or dispose of his or her right in agricultural land. (Sec. 294)
Property, Inheritance and Land Tenure
- EnglishAll persons, individually or collectively, shall have the right to ownership. Only natural person or legal entity of Khmer nationality shall have the right to land ownership.
Legal private ownership shall be protected by law.
… (Art. 44) - Khmerជនណាក៏ដោយ ទោះជាបុគ្គលក្តី ជាសមូហភាពក្តី មានសិទ្ធិជាម្ចាស់កម្មសិទ្ធិ។ មានតែរូបវន្តបុគ្គល ឬនីតិបុគ្គល ដែលមានសញ្ជាតិជាខ្មែរទេ ទើបមានសិទ្ធិជាម្ចាស់កម្មសិទ្ធិលើដីធ្លី។
កម្មសិទ្ធិឯកជនស្របច្បាប់ ឋិតនៅក្រោមការគាំពារនៃច្បាប់។
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Property, Inheritance and Land Tenure
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The State protects and promotes all forms of property rights: State, collective, private domestic and foreign investment in the Lao People's Democratic Republic. (Art. 16)
- Lao
ລັດປົກປ້ອງ ແລະ ເສີມຂະຫຍາຍບັນດາຮູບການກໍາມະສິດຂອງລັດ, ຂອງລວມໝູ່, ເອກະເທດ, ເອກະຊົນພາຍໃນ ແລະ ຕ່າງປະເທດທີ່ລົງທຶນຢູ່ ສາທາລະນະລັດ ປະຊາທິປະໄຕ ປະ ຊາຊົນລາວ. (ມາດຕາ 16)
Property, Inheritance and Land Tenure
- EnglishEveryone has the right to own, use and dispose of his or her property, and the results of his or her intellectual and creative activity.
The right of private property is acquired by the procedure determined by law.
In order to satisfy their needs, citizens may use the objects of the right of state and communal property in accordance with the law.
… (Art. 41) - UkrainianКожен має право володіти, користуватися і розпоряджатися своєю власністю, результатами своєї інтелектуальної, творчої діяльності.
Право приватної власності набувається в порядку, визначеному законом.
Громадяни для задоволення своїх потреб можуть користуватися об'єктами права державної та комунальної власності відповідно до закону.
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Property, Inheritance and Land Tenure
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II. The nations and the rural native indigenous peoples that live in isolation and out of contact enjoy the right to maintain themselves in that condition, and to the legal definition and consolidation of the territory which they occupy and inhabit. (Art. 31) - Spanish…
II. Las naciones y pueblos indígenas en aislamiento y no contactados gozan del derecho a mantenerse en esa condición, a la delimitación y consolidación legal del territorio que ocupan y habitan. (Art. 31)
Property, Inheritance and Land Tenure
- EnglishThe Union :
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(c) shall permit citizens right of private property, right of inheritance, right of private initiative and patent in accord with the law. (Sec. 37) - Burmeseနိုင်ငံတော်သည် -
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(ဂ) နိုင်ငံသားများအား ပစ္စည်းပိုင်ဆိုင်ခွင့်၊ အမွေဆက်ခံခွင့်၊ ကိုယ်ပိုင်လုပ်ကိုင်ခွင့်၊ တီထွင်ခွင့် နှင့် မူပိုင်ခွင့်တို့ကို ဥပဒေပြဌာန်းချက်နှင့်အညီ ခွင့်ပြုရမည်။ (ပုဒ်မ-၃၇)
Property, Inheritance and Land Tenure
- EnglishWE HEREBY ACKNOWLEDGE that, subject to any restrictions imposed by law on noncitizens, all persons in our country are entitled to the fundamental rights and freedoms of the individual, that is to say, the right, whatever their race, tribe, places of origin, political opinion, colour, creed or sex, but subject to respect for the rights and freedoms of others and for the legitimate public interest, to each of the following:-
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(f) protection for the privacy of their homes and other property and from unjust deprivation of property,
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