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Property, Inheritance and Land Tenure
- English
The law establishes the rules concerning:
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- ... the state and the capacity of persons, the matrimonial regimes, inheritance and gifts;
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The law determines the fundamental principles:
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- of the regime of property, of real rights and of civil and commercial obligations;
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La loi fixe les règles concernant :
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- … l'état et la capacité des personnes, les régimes matrimoniaux, les successions et les libéralités ;
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La loi détermine les principes fondamentaux :
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- du régime de la propriété, des droits réels et des obligations civiles et commerciales ;
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Property, Inheritance and Land Tenure
- EnglishThe State guarantees the right to individual property. …
The State assures the facility of access to land property through the appropriate juridical and institutional provisions and a transparent administration of the information concerning land. (Art. 34) - FrenchL’Etat garantit le droit à la propriété individuelle. …
L’Etat assure la facilité d’accès à la propriété foncière à travers des dispositifs juridiques et institutionnels appropriés et d’une gestion transparente des informations foncières. (Art. 34)
Property, Inheritance and Land Tenure
- EnglishThe right to property is guaranteed by this Constitution.
… (Art. 12) - Arabicيضمن الدستور حق الملكية.
... (المادة 12) - FrenchLe droit de propriété est garanti par la présente Constitution.
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Property, Inheritance and Land Tenure
- English1. All persons who have rights in property at the date of the commencement of this Constitution shall continue to have such rights under this Constitution and any other law.
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Property, Inheritance and Land Tenure
- EnglishThe Constitution guarantees to all Hondurans and to foreigners residing in the country the right to the inviolability of life, and to individual safety, freedom, equality before the law, and property. (Art. 61)
- SpanishLa Constitución garantiza a los hondureños y extranjeros residentes en el país, el derecho a la inviolabilidad de la vida, a la seguridad individual, a la libertad, a la igualdad ante la ley y a la propiedad. (Art. 61)
Property, Inheritance and Land Tenure
- English1 1° The State acknowledges that man, in virtue of his rational being, has the natural right, antecedent to positive law, to the private ownership of external goods.
2° The State accordingly guarantees to pass no law attempting to abolish the right of private ownership or the general right to transfer, bequeath, and inherit property.
… (Art. 43) - Irish Gaelic1 1° Admhaíonn an Stát, toisc bua an réasúin a bheith ag an duine, go bhfuil sé de cheart nádúrtha aige maoin shaolta a bheith aige dá chuid féin go príobháideach, ceart is ársa ná reacht daonna.
2° Uime sin, ráthaíonn an Stát gan aon dlí a achtú d’iarraidh an ceart sin, ná gnáthcheart an duine chun maoin a shannadh agus a thiomnú agus a ghlacadh ina hoidhreacht, a chur ar ceal.
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Property, Inheritance and Land Tenure
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(2) Subject to the provisions of subsection (5), no law shall make any provision which is discriminatory either of itself or in its effect.
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(4) In this section, the expression "discrimination" means affording different treatment to different persons attributable wholly or mainly to their respective descriptions by race, colour, gender, 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.
(5) Subsection (2) shall not apply to any law in so far as that law makes provision—
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(c) with respect to adoption, marriage, divorce, burial, devolution of property on death or other matters of personal law;
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Property, Inheritance and Land Tenure
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(5) There shall be a Council of Traditional Leaders to be established in terms of an Act of Parliament in order to advise the President on the control and utilization of communal land and on all such other matters as may be referred to it by the President for advice. (Art. 102)
Property, Inheritance and Land Tenure
- English
The ownership of the land to all those holders [proprietarios] who productively and efficiently work it[,] is guaranteed. The law will establish specific [particulares] regulations and exceptions, in accordance with the goals and objectives of agrarian reform. (Art. 108)
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Se garantiza la propiedad de la tierra a todos los propietarios que la trabajen productiva y eficientemente. La ley establecerá regulaciones particulares y excepciones, de conformidad con los fines y objetivos de la reforma agraria. (Art. 108)
Property, Inheritance and Land Tenure
- English1. The following shall fall within the exclusive competence of the supreme state authorities of Georgia:
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b) … legislation pertaining to land, minerals, and other natural resources;
… (Art. 7) - Georgian1. საქართველოს უმაღლეს სახელმწიფო ორგანოთა განსაკუთრებულ გამგებლობას მიეკუთვნება:
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ბ) … მიწის, წიაღისეულისა და სხვა ბუნებრივი რესურსების კანონმდებლობა;
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