SYSTEMS OF LAND TENURE INTRODUCTION: Land tenure is the name given‚ particularly in common law systems‚ to the legal regime in which land is owned by an individual‚ who is said to "hold" the land (the French verb "tenir" means "to hold"; "tenant" is the present participle of "tenir"). The sovereign monarch‚ known as The Crown‚ held land in its own right. All private owners are either its tenants or sub-tenants. The term "tenure" is used to signify the relationship between tenant and lord‚ not the
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Reading 3 1:0 INTRODUCTION Land Tenure may be defined loosely as the body of rules which governs access to land and the relationship between the holder of land and the community on the one land and or that between the holder and another party having superior title. The interests that may be had in land is therefore defined‚ delaminated and explained within the framework of the Land Tenure System. Because it is framed within the community concerned‚ the land tenure is quite community specific‚ and
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reserves to status-Indians and independent ownership for non-status Indians. This allocation of lands in reserves for status-Indians and independent ownership for non-status Indian is based on the policies developed through dependent and independent tenure. The laws permitting only status-Indians to live in reserves have fragmented the community and changes in culture and traditions have been rapid since the arrival of the government. The arrival of the Canadian government in the early nineteen-hundreds
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who they teach‚ measured predominantly by student achievement‚ along with skills and responsibilities. Tenure is a policy which protects teachers from getting fired for “just cause” purposes. Tenure is an incentive for teachers‚ that within current statutes have deemed detrimental to the education community in low- performing‚ low economic schools. With the overturn of current statutes‚ tenure should be offered to qualified teachers who opt to educate at low performing‚ low economic schools within
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with the entire structure of land rights. For this reason‚ among others‚ the Company also created/adapted legal systems that would adjudicate the disputes that‚ inevitably‚ followed in the wake of its land-rights interventions. The legal and land tenure arrangements chosen also affected credit markets: to the extent land ownership is secure and transferable‚ land can be used as collateral‚ or seized in lieu of repayment of debts or other contractual obligations. Land‚ law‚ and credit in colonial
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social and environmental drivers of land reforms in Uganda. It is against the central role of land and its resources in Uganda’s economic development agenda that successive political regimes sought to reform land tenure relations. But Uganda’s sluggish move from difficulties of land tenure administration complete with cumbersome policy delivery and ineffective land-use management partly stem from the troubled colonial legacy‚ complete with unfair policies. But with the enactment of 1995‚ there was
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person (corporate or individual) on rental basis. This makes those having “ownership” of land in Zambia have an interest in the land in that they will possess that interest but will not own the land. In this regard‚ land in Zambia is alienated on tenure basis as leasehold or customary. A leasehold is defined as a right to hold or use property for a fixed period of time at a given price‚ without transfer of ownership on a basis of a lease contract. This definition is in line with the sense contained
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serves to change relationships within and between communities‚ as well as between communities and the state. Thus even small-scale land reforms and legal modifications may be subject to intense debate or conflict.[6] Contents 1 Land ownership and tenure 2 Arguments
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Research Work About Trends and Issues in Agrarian and Land Reform Submitted to: Submitted by: Dean Lourdes Sabile Alejandrino Bantilan For a long period of time‚ the agrarian system of Philippines was being controlled by the large landlords. The small farmers in Philippines were struggling for their rights to land and other natural resources. The implementation of Agrarian reforms proceeded at a very slow pace. This was due to the lack of political will. The redistribution
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Study 1.2 Statement of the Problem 1.3 Aims and Objectives of the Study 1.4 Scope of the Study 1.5 Limitation of the Study 1.6 Significance of the Study CHAPTER TWO 2.0 Literature Review 2.1 Highlights of Land Use Act‚ No. 6. of 1978 2.2 The Land Tenure law of Northern Nigerian‚ 1962 2.3 The Effects of Land Use Act on Naluation Practice 2.4 The Roles of Valuers as Put Forward in Land Use Act‚ 1978 2.5 Effects of Zoning land and Buildings 2.6 Compensation for Valuation 2.6.1 General Basis of Compensation
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