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Property, Inheritance and Land Tenure
- EnglishThe Union shall protect the privacy and security of home, property, correspondence and other communications of citizens under the law subject to the provisions of this Constitution. (Sec. 357)
- Burmeseဤဖွဲ့စည်းပုံအခြေခံဥပဒေပါ ပြဌာန်းချက်များနှင့် မဆန့်ကျင်လျှင် နိုင်ငံတော်သည် နိုင်ငံသား များ၏ နေအိမ်ဥပစာလုံခြုံမှု၊ ပစ္စည်းလုံခြုံမှု၊ စာပေးစာယူနှင့် အခြားဆက်သွယ်ရေးဆိုင်ရာ လုံခြုံမှု များအတွက် ဥပဒေအရ ကာကွယ်ပေးရမည်။ (ပုဒ်မ-၃၅၇)
Property, Inheritance and Land Tenure
- English(1) Only citizens other than citizens who have dual citizenship may-
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(b) acquire freehold land.
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Property, Inheritance and Land Tenure
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Final title shall be recognized for the remaining members of the former fugitive slave communities who are occupying their lands, and the State shall grant them the respective deeds. (Transitional Constitutional Provisions Act 1988, Art. 68)
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Aos remanescentes das comunidades dos quilombos que estejam ocupando suas terras é reconhecida a propriedade definitiva, devendo o Estado emitirlhes os títulos respectivos. (Ato das Disposições Constitucionais Transitórias 1988, Art. 68)
Property, Inheritance and Land Tenure
- English(1) Majlis-e-Shoora (Parliament) may by law--
(a) prescribe the maximum limits as to property or any class thereof which may be owned, held, possessed or controlled by any person;
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(2) Any law which permits a person to own beneficially or possess beneficially an area of land greater than that which, immediately before the commencing day, he could have lawfully owned beneficially or possessed beneficially shall be invalid. (Art. 253) - Urdu(۱) مجلس شوریٰ (پارلیمنٹ) بذریعہ قانون --
(الف) ایسی جائیداد یا اس کی کسی قسم کے بارے میں جو کوئی شخص ملکیت،تصرف،قبضہ یا نگرانی میں رکھ سکے گا انتہائی تحدیدات مقررکر سکے گی؛
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(٢) کوئی قانون جو کسی شخص کو اس رقبہ اراضی سے زیادہ اراضی کی منفعتی ملکیت یا منفعتی قبضہ کی اجازت دے جو وہ یوم آغاز سے عین قبل جائز طور پر منفعتی ملکیت میں رکھ سکتا تھا یا قبضہ میں لا سکتا تھا، کالعدم ہو گا۔(آرٹیکل ۲۵۳)
Property, Inheritance and Land Tenure
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(1) Every person in Tuvalu is entitled, whatever his race, place of origin, political opinions, colour, religious beliefs or lack of religious beliefs, disability, or sex, to the following fundamental rights and freedoms: -
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(h) protection for the privacy of his home and other property (see section 21); and
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Property, Inheritance and Land Tenure
- English(1) A spouse shall not be deprived of a reasonable provision out of the estate of a spouse whether or not the spouse died having made a will.
(2) Parliament shall, as soon as practicable after the coming into force of this Constitution, enact legislation regulating the property rights of spouses.
(3) With a view to achieving the full realisation of the rights referred to in clause (2) of this article—
(a) spouses shall have equal access to property jointly acquired during marriage;
(b) assets which are jointly acquired during marriage shall be distributed equitably between the spouses upon dissolution of the marriage. (Art. 22)
Property, Inheritance and Land Tenure
- EnglishWhereas every person in Dominica is entitled to the fundamental rights and freedoms, that is to say, the rights whatever his race, place of origins, political opinions, colour, creed or sex, but subject to respect for the rights and freedoms of others and for the public interest, to each and all of the following, namely-
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(c) protection for the privacy of his home and other property and from deprivation of property without compensation,
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Property, Inheritance and Land Tenure
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18. Land – Land, that is to say, rights in or over land, land tenure, transfer and alienation of land, land use, land settlement and land improvement, to the extent set out in Appendix II.
… (Ninth Schedule, List I, Provincial Council List) - Sinhala...
18. ඉඩම් - ඉඩම්, එනම් (II) වැනි පරිශිෂ්ටයෙහි දක්වා ඇති ප්රමාණයට ඉඩම් කෙරෙහි හෝ ඉඩම් විෂයයෙහි ඇති අයිතිවාසිකම්, ඉඩම් භුක්තිය, ඉඩම් විකිණීම හා අන්සතු කිරීම, ඉඩම් පරිහරණය, ඉඩම්වල පදිංචි කරවීම සහ ඉඩම් වැඩි දියුණු කිරීම.
… (නව වැනි උපලේඛනය, I වැනි ලැයිස්තුව, පළාත් සභා ලැයිස්තුව)
Property, Inheritance and Land Tenure
- English1. The organisation and regulation of economic activities shall be based on a general guarantee of overall economic rights and freedoms in general, and an appreciation of work, human dignity and social justice, in accordance with the following fundamental principles:
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d) Respect and protection for private property and initiatives;
… (Art. 89) - Portuguese1. A organização e a regulação das actividades económicas assentam na garantia geral dos direitos e liberdades económicas em geral, na valorização do trabalho, na dignidade humana e na justiça social, em conformidade com os seguintes princípios fundamentais:
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d) Respeito e protecção à propriedade e iniciativa privadas;
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Property, Inheritance and Land Tenure
- English1. Subject to the provisions of subsections (4) and (5) 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 race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status 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 to the extent that that law makes provision—
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b. 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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