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Property, Inheritance and Land Tenure
Timor-Leste
- EnglishOwnership, use and development of land as one of the factors for economic production shall be regulated by law. (Sec. 141)
- TetumLei mak regula propriedade, nia uzu no utilidade rai nian, hanesan fatór produsaun ekonómiku ida. (Art. 141)
- PortugueseSão regulados por lei a propriedade, o uso e a posse útil das terras, como um dos factores de produção económica. (Art. 141)
Property, Inheritance and Land Tenure
Armenia
- English1. All forms of property shall be recognized and equally protected in the Republic of Armenia.
… (Art. 10) - Armenian1. Հայաստանի Հանրապետությունում ճանաչվում և հավասարապես պաշտպանվում են սեփականության բոլոր ձևերը:
… (Հոդված 10)
Property, Inheritance and Land Tenure
China
- EnglishLand in the cities is owned by the state.
Land in the rural and suburban areas is owned by collectives except for those portions which belong to the state in accordance with the law; house sites and private plots of cropland and hilly land are also owned by collectives.
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No organization or individual may appropriate, buy, sell or otherwise engage in the transfer of land by unlawful means. The right to the use of land may be transferred according to law.
All organizations and individuals who use land must make rational use of the land. (Art. 10) - Chinese城市的土地属于国家所有。
农村和城市郊区的土地,除由法律规定属于国家所有的以外,属于集体所有;宅基地和自留地、自留山,也属于集体所有。
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任何组织或者个人不得侵占、买卖或者以其他形式非法转让土地。土地的使用权可以依照法律的规定转让。
一切使用土地的组织和个人必须合理地利用土地。(第十条)
Property, Inheritance and Land Tenure
Iran, Islamic Republic of
- 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
Lebanon
- EnglishThe ownership is protected by the law. … (Art. 15)
- Arabicالملكية في حمى القانون. ... (المادّة 15)
Property, Inheritance and Land Tenure
Myanmar
- EnglishThe Union guarantees the right to ownership, the use of property and the right to private invention and patent in the conducting of business if it is not contrary to the provisions of this Constitution and the existing laws. (Sec. 372)
- Burmeseဤဖွဲ့စည်းပုံအခြေခံဥပဒေပါ ပြဌာန်းချက်များနှင့်လည်းကောင်း၊ တည်ဆဲဥပဒေများပါပြဌာန်းချက်များနှင့်လည်းကောင်း မဆန့်ကျင်စေဘဲ စီးပွားရေးကိစ္စများကို ဆောင်ရွက်ရာတွင် ပစ္စည်းပိုင်ဆိုင်ခွင့်၊ သုံးစွဲခွင့်နှင့် ကိုယ်ပိုင်တီထွင်ခွင့်၊ မူပိုင်ခွင့်တို့ကို နိုင်ငံတော်က အာမခံသည်။ (ပုဒ်မ-၃၇၂)
Property, Inheritance and Land Tenure
Palestine
- English
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3. Private property, both real estate and movable assets, shall be protected
… (Art. 21) - Arabic
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3- الملكية الخاصة مصونة،
... (المادّة 21)
Property, Inheritance and Land Tenure
Syrian Arab Republic
- EnglishCollective and individual private ownership shall be protected … (Art. 15)
- Arabicالملكيّة الخاصّة من جماعية وفردية، مصانة ... (المادّة 15)
Property, Inheritance and Land Tenure
United Arab Emirates
- EnglishPrivate property is protected and the restrictions against it shall be specified by law. … (Art. 21)
- Arabicاﻟﻤﻠﻜﻴﺔ اﻟﺨﺎﺻﺔ ﻣﺼﻮﻧﺔ. وﻳﺒﻴﻦ اﻟﻘﺎﻧﻮﻥ اﻟﻘﻴﻮﺩ اﻟﺘﻲ ﺗﺮﺩ ﻋﻠﻴﻬﺎ. ... (المادّة 21)
Property, Inheritance and Land Tenure
Azerbaijan
- English…
II. With the exception of cases specified by law, infringement upon a person's … property, residence, … is prohibited. (Art. 31) - Azerbaijani…
II. Qanunda nəzərdə tutulmuş hallar istisna olmaqla, şəxsin … mülkiyyətinə, mənzilinə qəsd etmək, ona qarşı … qadağandır. (Maddə 31)