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Property, Inheritance and Land Tenure
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(2) Except as expressly authorized by this Constitution, there shall be no discrimination against citizens on the ground only of religion, race, descent, place of birth or gender in any law or in the appointment to any office or employment under a public authority or in the administration of any law relating to the acquisition, holding or disposition of property or the establishing or carrying on of any trade, business, profession, vocation or employment.
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(2) Kecuali sebagaimana yang dibenarkan dengan nyata oleh Perlembagaan ini tidak boleh ada diskriminasi terhadap warganegara semata-mata atas alasan agama, ras, keturunan, tempat lahir atau jantina dalam mana-mana undang-undang atau dalam pelantikan kepada apa-apa jawatan atau pekerjaan di bawah sesuatu pihak berkuasa awam atau dalam pentadbiran mana-mana undang-undang yang berhubungan dengan pemerolehan, pemegangan atau pelupusan harta atau berhubungan dengan penubuhan atau penjalanan apa-apa pertukangan, perniagaan, profesion, kerjaya atau pekerjaan.
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Property, Inheritance and Land Tenure
- EnglishIs of the competence of the National Public Power:
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32. … native people and the territories they occupy; … (Art. 156) - SpanishEs de la competencia del Poder Público Nacional:
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32. … la de pueblos indígenas y territorios ocupados por ellos; … (Art. 156)
Property, Inheritance and Land Tenure
- English(1) The ownership of all iTaukei land shall remain with the customary owners of that land and iTaukei land shall not be permanently alienated, whether by sale, grant, transfer or exchange, except to the State in accordance with section 27.
(2) Any iTaukei land acquired by the State for a public purpose after the commencement of this Constitution under section 27 or under any written law shall revert to the customary owners if the land is no longer required by the State.
(3) The ownership of all Rotuman land shall remain with the customary owners of that land and Rotuman land shall not be permanently alienated, whether by sale, grant, transfer or exchange, except to the State in accordance with section 27.
(4) Any Rotuman land acquired by the State for a public purpose after the commencement of this Constitution under section 27 or under any written law shall revert to the customary owners if the land is no longer required by the State.
(5) The ownership of all Banaban land shall remain with the customary owners of that land and Banaban land shall not be permanently alienated, whether by sale, grant, transfer or exchange, except to the State in accordance with section 27.
(6) Any Banaban land acquired by the State for a public purpose after the commencement of this Constitution under section 27 or under any written law shall revert to the customary owners if the land is no longer required by the State. (Sec. 28) - iTaukei(1) Na qele ni iTaukei mera taukena tiko ga na itaukei ni qele, ena sega tale ga ni rawa ni volitaki, soli, tokitaki se veisautaki, vakavo ni tauri Vakamatanitu me vaka e virikotori ena tikina 27.
(2) Ke dua na qele ni iTaukei e taura na Matanitu ena dua na inaki raraba ni oti na kena taurivaki na Yavunivakavulewa qo me vaka e virikotori ena tikina 27 se ena dua na lawa tabaki, me na vakasukai tale vei ira na kena itaukei ke sa sega ni vakayagataka na qele na Matanitu.
(3) Na qele ni Rotuma mera taukena tiko ga na itaukei ni qele, ena sega tale ga ni rawa ni volitaki, soli, tokitaki se veisautaki, vakavo ni tauri Vakamatanitu me vaka e virikotori ena tikina 27.
(4) Ke dua na qele ni Rotuma e taura na Matanitu ena dua na inaki raraba ni oti na kena taurivaki na Yavunivakavulewa qo me vaka e virikotori ena tikina 27 se ena dua na lawa tabaki, me na vakasukai tale vei ira na kena itaukei ke sa sega ni vakayagataka na qele na Matanitu.
(5) Na qele ni Rabi mera taukena tiko ga na itaukei ni qele, ena sega tale ga ni rawa ni volitaki, soli, tokitaki se veisautaki, vakavo ni tauri Vakamatanitu me vaka e virikotori ena tikina 27.
(6) Ke dua na qele ni Rabi e taura na Matanitu ena dua na inaki raraba ni oti na kena taurivaki na Yavunivakavulewa qo me vaka e virikotori ena tikina 27 se ena dua na lawa tabaki, me na vakasukai tale vei ira na kena itaukei ke sa sega ni vakayagataka na qele na Matanitu. (Sec. 28)
Property, Inheritance and Land Tenure
- EnglishSubject to any limitation imposed by law, an owner or occupier of agricultural land has the right to transfer, hypothecate, lease or dispose of his or her right in agricultural land. (Sec. 294)
Property, Inheritance and Land Tenure
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5. Agriculture and Livestock Breeding Sector
(a) Land administration;
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10. Management Sector
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(b) Administration of town and village land;
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11. Judicial Sector
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(d) Civil Laws and procedures including contract, arbitration, actionable wrong, insolvency, trust and trustees, administrator and receiver, family laws, guardians and wards, transfer of property and inheritance;
… (Schedule One, Union Legislative List [Section 96]) - Burmese
၅။ စိုက်ပျိုးရေးနှင့်မွေးမြူရေးကဏ္ဍ
(က) မြေယာစီမံခန့်ခွဲမှု၊
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၁၀။ စီမံခန့်ခွဲရေးကဏ္ဍ
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(ခ) ရွာမြေနှင့်မြို့မြေခန့်ခွဲရေး
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၁၁။ တရားစီရင်ရေးကဏ္ဍ
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(ဃ) တရားမဥပဒေများ၊ ကျင့်ထုံးများအပါအဝင်၊ ပဋိညာဉ်၊အနုညာတစီရင်ဆုံးဖြတ်ရေး၊ တရားစွဲဆိုပိုင်ခွင့်ရှိသော နစ်နာချက်များ၊ လူမွဲအဖြစ်ခံယူခြင်း၊ ယုံမှတ်အပ်နှံခြင်းနှင့်၊ ယုံမှတ်အပ်နှံထားသဖြင့် စီမံပိုင်ခွင့်ရှိသူများ၊ အမွေထိန်းနှင့်ပစ္စည်းထိန်း၊မိသားစုဆိုင်ရာဥပဒေများ၊အုပ်ထိန်းသူများနှင့် အုပ်ထိန်းခံရသူများ၊ ပစ္စည်းလွှဲပြောင်းခြင်း၊ အမွေဆက်ခံရေး၊
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Property, Inheritance and Land Tenure
- EnglishAll persons, individually or collectively, shall have the right to ownership. Only natural person or legal entity of Khmer nationality shall have the right to land ownership.
Legal private ownership shall be protected by law.
… (Art. 44) - Khmerជនណាក៏ដោយ ទោះជាបុគ្គលក្តី ជាសមូហភាពក្តី មានសិទ្ធិជាម្ចាស់កម្មសិទ្ធិ។ មានតែរូបវន្តបុគ្គល ឬនីតិបុគ្គល ដែលមានសញ្ជាតិជាខ្មែរទេ ទើបមានសិទ្ធិជាម្ចាស់កម្មសិទ្ធិលើដីធ្លី។
កម្មសិទ្ធិឯកជនស្របច្បាប់ ឋិតនៅក្រោមការគាំពារនៃច្បាប់។
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Property, Inheritance and Land Tenure
- EnglishIt shall not be lawful or competent for any person to make any alienation or disposition of customary land or of any interest in customary land, whether by way of sale, mortgage or otherwise howsoever, nor shall customary land or any interest therein be capable of being taken in execution or be assets for the payment of the debts of any person on his decease or insolvency:
PROVIDED THAT an Act of Parliament may authorise:
(a) the granting of a lease or licence of any customary land or of any interest therein;
(b) the taking of any customary land or any interest therein for public purposes. (Art. 102) - SamoanO le a le tusa ai ma le tulafono po o le le mafai e so o se tagata ona faaliliueseina atu po o le aveesea mai ia te ia o eleele tau le aganuu po o se itu e tau atu ai i eleele tau le aganuu, i se auala o le faatau atu, lisi, laisene, mokesi, po o se tasi lava faiga, o le a le mafaia lava se eleele tau le aganuu po o se itu e tau i ai ona avea i le faamaapeina po o le fai ma mea e totogiina ai ni aitalafu a so o se tagata ina ua maliu po o le le mafai ona togia o aitalafu:
VAGANA AI ONA UA FAAPEA, o se Tulafono a le Palemene e mafai ona faatagaina:
(a) le tuuina atu o se lisi po o se laisene o so o se eleele faale-aganuu po o so o se itu e tau atu i ai i lea eleele;
(e) le aveina o so o se eleele faale-aganuu po o le tau i ai i lea eleele mo galuega tau le Malo. (Mataupu 102)
Property, Inheritance and Land Tenure
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(5) The State shall once provide land to the landless Dalit in accordance with law.
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(7) The facilities conferred by this Article to the Dalit community must be distributed in a just manner so that the Dalit women, men and Dalit in all communities can obtain such facilities proportionately. (Art. 40) - Nepali…
(५) राज्यले भूमिहीन दलितलाई कानून बमोजिम एक पटक जमीन उपलब्ध गराउनु पर्नेछ ।
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(७) दलित समुदायलाई यस धाराद्वारा प्रदत्त सुविधा दलित महिला, पुरुष र सबै समुदायमा रहेका दलितले समानुपातिक रूपमा प्राप्त गर्ने गरी न्यायोचित वितरण गर्नु पर्नेछ । (धारा ४०)
Property, Inheritance and Land Tenure
- English1. Every person, alone or jointly with others, has the right to acquire, own, possess, enjoy or dispose of any movable or immovable property and has the right to respect for such right.
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6. In the event of agricultural reform, lands shall be distributed only to persons belonging to the same Community as the owner from whom such land has been compulsorily acquired.
… (Art. 23) - Greek1. Έκαστος, μόνος ή από κοινού μετ’ άλλων, έχει το δικαίωμα να αποκτά, να είναι κύριος, να κατέχη, απολαύη ή διαθέτη οιανδήποτε κινητήν ή ακίνητον ιδιοκτησίαν και δικαιούται να απαιτή τον σεβασμόν του τοιούτου δικαιώματος αυτού.
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6. Εν περιπτώσει αγροτικής μεταρρυθμίσεως αι γαίαι διανέμονται μόνον εις άτομα ανήκοντα εις την κοινότητα, εις ην ανήκει και ο ιδιοκτήτης των αναγκαστικώς απαλλοτριωθεισών γαιών.
… (Αρθρον 23) - Turkish1. Her şahıs, yalnız başına veya başkaları ile birlikte, herhangi bir menkul veya gayrimenkul mal edinme, buna sahip olma, bunu elinde tutma, bundan istifade etme veya üzerinde tasarruf etme hakkına ve bu hakka saygı gösterilmesi hakkına sahiptir.
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6. Tarım reformu amacı ile zorla edinimlerde, toprak, yalnız gayrimenkulü zorla edinilen toprak sahibinin mensup olduğu Cemaate mensup şahıslara dağıtılabilir.
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Property, Inheritance and Land Tenure
- EnglishThe right to hold or acquire a perpetual interest in land shall vest in any person who is a Solomon Islander and only in such other person or persons as may be prescribed by Parliament. (Sec. 110)