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Property, Inheritance and Land Tenure
- EnglishThe dignity, life, property, rights, residence, and occupation of the individual are inviolate, except in cases sanctioned by law. (Art. 22)
- Persianحیثیت، جان، مال، حقوق، مسکن و شغل اشخاص از تعرض مصون است مگر در مواردی که قانون تجویز کند. (اصل 22)
Property, Inheritance and Land Tenure
- English(1) Parliament passes constitutional, organic, and ordinary laws.
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(3) Organic laws shall regulate:
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m) the general legal status of property and inheritance;
… (Art. 73) - Romanian(1) Parlamentul adoptă legi constituţionale, legi organice şi legi ordinare.
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(3) Prin lege organică se reglementează:
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m) regimul juridic general al proprietăţii şi al moştenirii;
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Property, Inheritance and Land Tenure
- EnglishThe right to property is guaranteed. … (Art. 13)
- FrenchLe droit de propriété est garanti. … (Art. 13)
Property, Inheritance and Land Tenure
- EnglishIndigenous communes, communities, peoples and nations are recognized and guaranteed, in conformity with the Constitution and human rights agreements, conventions, declarations and other international instruments, the following collective rights:
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4. To keep ownership, without subject to a statute of limitations, of their community lands, which shall be unalienable, immune from seizure and indivisible. These lands shall be exempt from paying fees or taxes.
5. To keep ownership of ancestral lands and territories and to obtain free awarding of these lands.
6. To participate in the use, usufruct, administration and conservation of natural renewable resources located on their lands.
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The territories of the peoples living in voluntary isolation are an irreducible and intangible ancestral possession and all forms of extractive activities shall be forbidden there. The State shall adopt measures to guarantee their lives, enforce respect for self-determination and the will to remain in isolation and to ensure observance of their rights. The violation of these rights shall constitute a crime of ethnocide, which shall be classified as such by law.
The State shall guarantee the enforcement of these collective rights without any discrimination, in conditions of equality and equity between men and women. (Art. 57) - SpanishSe reconoce y garantizará a las comunas, comunidades, pueblos y nacionalidades indígenas, de conformidad con la Constitución y con los pactos, convenios, declaraciones y demás instrumentos internacionales de derechos humanos, los siguientes derechos colectivos:
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4. Conservar la propiedad imprescriptible de sus tierras comunitarias, que serán inalienables, inembargables e indivisibles. Estas tierras estarán exentas del pago de tasas e impuestos.
5. Mantener la posesión de las tierras y territorios ancestrales y obtener su adjudicación gratuita.
6. Participar en el uso, usufructo, administración y conservación de los recursos naturales renovables que se hallen en sus tierras.
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Los territorios de los pueblos en aislamiento voluntario son de posesión ancestral irreductible e intangible, y en ellos estará vedada todo tipo de actividad extractiva. El Estado adoptará medidas para garantizar sus vidas, hacer respetar su autodeterminación y voluntad de permanecer en aislamiento, y precautelar la observancia de sus derechos. La violación de estos derechos constituirá delito de etnocidio, que será tipificado por la ley.
El Estado garantizará la aplicación de estos derechos colectivos sin discriminación alguna, en condiciones de igualdad y equidad entre mujeres y hombres. (Art. 57)
Property, Inheritance and Land Tenure
- English
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3. Land, with the exception of pastures and forests, may be privately and municipally owned.
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4. Guarantees for the protection of landowners' rights are defined by law. (Art. 16) - Russian
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3. Земля, за исключением пастбищ и лесов, может находиться в частной и муниципальной формах собственности.
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4. Гарантии защиты прав собственников земли определяются законом. (Статья 16) - Kyrgyz
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3. Жер, жайыттарды жана токойлорду кошпогондо, менчиктин жеке жана муниципалдык түрүндө болушу мүмкүн.
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4. Жердин менчик ээлеринин укуктарын коргоонун кепилдиктери мыйзам менен аныкталат. (16-берене)
Property, Inheritance and Land Tenure
- English... The right of property to land is guaranteed. This right is acquired and realised by citizens, legal persons and the State, exclusively in accordance with the law. (Art. 14)
- Ukrainian... Право власності на землю гарантується. Це право набувається і реалізується громадянами, юридичними особами та державою виключно відповідно до закону. (Стаття 14)
Property, Inheritance and Land Tenure
- Englisha. All persons are born equally free and independent and have certain natural, inherent and inalienable rights, among which are the right of enjoying and defending life and liberty, of pursuing and maintaining and security of the person and of acquiring, possessing and protecting property, subject to such qualifications as provided for in this Constitution.
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Property, Inheritance and Land Tenure
- EnglishThe following are the fundamental obligations of the State:
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j. To actively promote programs of rural development which tend to increase and diversify the national production based on the principle of private property and of the protection of family patrimony.
… (Art. 119) - SpanishSon obligaciones fundamentales del Estado:
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j) Impulsar activamente programas de desarrollo rural que tiendan a incrementar y diversificar la producción nacional con base en el principio de la propiedad privada y de la protección al patrimonio familiar.
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Property, Inheritance and Land Tenure
- English
The citizens of Mongolia are guaranteed to exercise the following rights and freedoms:
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3/ the right to fair acquisition, possession, ownership and inheritance of movable and immovable property.
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Монгол Улсын иргэн дараахь үндсэн эрх, эрх чөлөөг баталгаатай эдэлнэ:
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3) хөдлөх, үл хөдлөх хөрөнгө шударгаар олж авах, эзэмших, өмчлөх, өв залгамжлуулах эрхтэй.
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Property, Inheritance and Land Tenure
- EnglishOnly citizens of Palau and corporations wholly owned by citizens of Palau may acquire title to land or waters in Palau. (Art. XIII, Sec. 8)