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Property, Inheritance and Land Tenure
Iraq
- EnglishFirst: Private property is protected. The owner shall have the right to benefit, exploit and dispose of private property within the limits of the law.
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Third:
A. Every Iraqi shall have the right to own property anywhere in Iraq. No others may possess immovable assets, except as exempted by law.
B. Ownership of property for the purposes of demographic change is prohibited. (Art. 23) - Arabicأولاً :ـ الملكية الخاصة مصونةٌ، ويحق للمالك الانتفاع بها واستغلالها والتصرّف بها، في حدود القانون.
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ثالثاً :ـ
أ ـ للعراقي الحق في التملك في أي مكانٍ في العراق، ولا يجوز لغيره تملك غير المنقول، الا ما استثني بقانون.
ب ـ يحظر التملك لأغراض التغيير السكاني. (المادة 23)
Property, Inheritance and Land Tenure
Mauritania
- EnglishThe right of property is guaranteed.
The right of inheritance is guaranteed.
… (Art. 15) - Arabicحقّ الملكية مضمون.
حق الإرث مضمون.
... (المادّة 15) - FrenchLe droit de propriété est garanti.
Le droit d'héritage est garanti.
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Property, Inheritance and Land Tenure
Russian Federation
- English1. Land and other natural resources shall be utilized and protected in the Russian Federation as the basis of the life and activity of the peoples living on the territories concerned.
2. Land and other natural resources may be subject to private, State, municipal and other forms of ownership. (Art. 9) - Russian1. Земля и другие природные ресурсы используются и охраняются в Российской Федерации как основа жизни и деятельности народов, проживающих на соответствующей территории.
2. Земля и другие природные ресурсы могут находиться в частной, государственной, муниципальной и иных формах собственности. (Статья 9)
Property, Inheritance and Land Tenure
Jamaica
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2. Subject to sections 18 and 49, and to subsections (9) and (12) of this section, and save only as may be demonstrably justified in a free and democratic society-
a. this Chapter11 guarantees the rights and freedoms set out in subsections (3) and (6) of this section and in sections 14, 15, 16 and 17; and
b. Parliament shall pass no law and no organ of the State shall take any action which abrogates, abridges or infringes those rights.
3. The rights and freedoms referred to in subsection (2) are as follows-
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q. the protection of property rights as provided in section 15;
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Property, Inheritance and Land Tenure
Lebanon
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F. The economic system is free, guaranteeing individual initiative and private ownership.
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و. النظام الاقتصادي حر يكفل المبادرة الفردية و الملكية الخاصة
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Property, Inheritance and Land Tenure
Nigeria
- EnglishSubject to the provisions of this Constitution, every citizen of Nigeria shall have the right to acquire and own immovable property anywhere in Nigeria. (Sec. 43)
Property, Inheritance and Land Tenure
Fiji
- EnglishWE, THE PEOPLE OF FIJI,
RECOGNISING the indigenous people or the iTaukei, their ownership of iTaukei lands, their unique culture, customs, traditions and language;
RECOGNISING the indigenous people or the Rotuman from the island of Rotuma, their ownership of Rotuman lands, their unique culture, customs, traditions and language;
… (Preamble) - iTaukeiO KEIMAMI NA LEWEI VITI,
ROKOVA na itaukei ni vanua se kawa itaukei, na nodra taukena na kedra qele, na nodra itovo, ivakarau kei na vosa;
ROKOVA na itaukei ni vanua o Rotuma, mai na yanuyanu o Rotuma, na nodra taukena na kedra qele, nodra itovo, ivakarau kei na vosa;
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Property, Inheritance and Land Tenure
Panama
- 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
Myanmar
- 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
South Sudan
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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)