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Property, Inheritance and Land Tenure
- English1. The right to own and inherit property shall be recognised and guaranteed.
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4. As a resource of special importance, agricultural land may be owned only by the State, a self-governing unit, a citizen of Georgia or an association of citizens of Georgia. Exceptional cases may be determined by the organic law, which shall be adopted by a majority of at least two thirds of the total number of the Members of Parliament. (Art. 19) - Georgian1. საკუთრებისა და მემკვიდრეობის უფლება აღიარებული და უზრუნველყოფილია.
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4. სასოფლო-სამეურნეო დანიშნულების მიწა, როგორც განსაკუთრებული მნიშვნელობის რესურსი, შეიძლება იყოს მხოლოდ სახელმწიფოს, თვითმმართველი ერთეულის, საქართველოს მოქალაქის ან საქართველოს მოქალაქეთა გაერთიანების საკუთრებაში. გამონაკლისი შემთხვევები შეიძლება დადგინდეს ორგანული კანონით, რომელიც მიიღება პარლამენტის სრული შემადგენლობის არანაკლებ ორი მესამედის უმრავლესობით. (მუხლი 19)
Property, Inheritance and Land Tenure
- English(1) The right to own or to hold property is inviolable.
(2) Property rights shall be defined by law, in conformity with the public welfare.
… (Art. 29) - Japanese1 財産権は、これを侵してはならない。
2 財産権の内容は、公共の福祉に適合するやうに、法律でこれを定める。
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Property, Inheritance and Land Tenure
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(4) Parliament may, for the purpose only of ensuring uniformity of law and policy, make laws with respect to land tenure, the relations of landlord and tenant, registration of titles and deeds relating to land, transfer of land, mortgages, leases and charges in respect of land, easements and other rights and interests in land, compulsory acquisition of land, rating and valuation of land, and local government; and paragraph (b) of Clause (1) and Clause (3) shall not apply to any law relating to any such matter. (Art. 76) - Malay…
(4) Parlimen boleh, hanya bagi maksud memastikan keseragaman undang-undang dan dasar, membuat undang-undang mengenai pemegangan tanah, perhubungan antara tuan tanah dengan penyewa, pendaftaran hakmilik dan surat ikatan yang berhubungan dengan tanah, pindah hakmilik tanah, gadai janji, pajakan dan gadaian berkenaan dengan tanah, isemen dan hak dan kepentingan lain mengenai tanah, pengambilan tanah dengan paksa, perkadaran dan penilaian tanah, dan kerajaan tempatan; dan Fasal (1)(b) dan (3) tidaklah terpakai bagi mana-mana undang-undang yang berhubungan dengan mana-mana perkara itu. (Perkara 76)
Property, Inheritance and Land Tenure
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(5) All offspring shall have the equal right to the ancestral property without discrimination on the ground of gender. (Art. 18) - Nepali…
(५) पैतृक सम्पत्तिमा लैंगिक भेदभाव विना सबै सन्तानको समान हक हुनेछ । (धारा १८)
Property, Inheritance and Land Tenure
- EnglishThe State, subject to the provisions of this Constitution and national development policies and programs, shall protect the rights of indigenous cultural communities to their ancestral lands to ensure their economic, social, and cultural well-being.
The Congress may provide for the applicability of customary laws governing property rights or relations in determining the ownership and extent of ancestral domain. (Art. XII, Sec. 5) - FilipinoDapat pangalagaan ng Estado, batay sa mga tadhana ng Konstitusyong ito at sa mga patakaran at mga programa sa pagpapaunlad ng bansa, ang mga karapatan ng mga katutubong pamayanang kultural sa kanilang minanang lupain upang matiyak ang kanilang kagalinang ekonomiko, panlipunan, at pangkultura.
Maaaring magtakda ang Kongreso para sa pagpapairal ng mga nakaugaliang batas hinggil sa mga karapatan o mga ugnayan sa ariarian sa pagtiyak sa pagmamay-ari ng minanang lupain. (Art. XII, Seksyon 5)
Property, Inheritance and Land Tenure
- EnglishThe State shall apply the principles of agrarian reform or stewardship, whenever applicable in accordance with law, in the disposition or utilization of other natural resources, including lands of the public domain under lease or concession suitable to agriculture, subject to prior rights, homestead rights of small settlers, and the rights of indigenous communities to their ancestral lands.
The State may resettle landless farmers and farmworkers in its own agricultural estates which shall be distributed to them in the manner provided by law. (Art. XIII, Sec. 6) - FilipinoDapat ipatupad ng Estado ang mga simulain ng repormang pansakahan o stewardship kailanma't mapapairal nang naaalinsunod sa batas sa pamamahagi o paggamit ng iba pang mga likas na kayamanan, kasama ang mga lupaing pambayan na angkop sa pagsasaka sa ilalim ng pamumuwisan o konsesyon, batay sa mga nananahanan, at mga karapatan mga katutubong mga pamayanan sa kanilang minanang lupain.
Maaaring ipanahanan ng Estado ang mga magsasakang walang lupa at mga manggagawa sa bukid sa sarili nitong mga lupaing pansakahan na ipamahagi sa kanila sa paraang itinakda ng batas. (Art. XIII, Seksyon 6)
Property, Inheritance and Land Tenure
- EnglishThe State should provide measures or mechanisms to enable farmers to efficiently carry out agriculture which yields produce of high quantity and quality that is safe, low cost and competitive in the market, and should assist indigent farmers to have land for making a living through land reform or any other means. (Sec. 73)
- Thaiรัฐพึงจัดให้มีมาตรการหรือกลไกที่ช่วยให้เกษตรกรสามารถประกอบเกษตรกรรมได้อย่างมีประสิทธิภาพ ได้ผลผลิตที่มีปริมาณและคุณภาพสูง มีความปลอดภัย โดยใช้ต้นทุนต่ำ และสามารถแข่งขันในตลาดได้ และพึงช่วยเหลือเกษตรกรผู้ยากไร้ให้มีที่ทํากินโดยการปฏิรูปที่ดินหรือวิธีอื่นใด (มาตรา ๗๓)
Property, Inheritance and Land Tenure
- EnglishThe right of inheritance is guaranteed in accordance with Islamic tenets (Shari'ah). A special law will be issued accordingly. (Art. 23)
- Arabicحق الإرث مكفول وفقاً للشريعة الإسلامية ويصدر به قانون. (المادّة 23)
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
- EnglishLand, that is to say, rights in or over land, land tenures including the relation of landlord and tenant, and the collection of rents; transfer and alienation of agricultural land; land improvement and agricultural loans; colonization. (Seventh Schedule: List II – State List, Art. 18)
- Hindiभूमि, अर्थात भूमि, भूमालिक तथा किरायेदार के संबंध सहित भूमि पर अधिकार की भूमि, अर्थात भूमि, भूमालिक तथा किरायेदार के संबंध सहित भूमि पर अधिकार की अवधि, और किराये का एकत्रीकरण; कृषि भूमि का अंतरण और इसे अलग करना; भूमि सुधार और कृषि ऋण; उपनिवेशन। (सातवीं अनुसूची: सूची II – राज्य सूची, अनुच्छेद 18)