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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Land registry"”.
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An explorative case study of blockchain as a means to enhancing land registry governance to uphold property and land restitution in South Africa
Land ownership is one of the fundamental constitutional rights of every citizen in South Africa. The slow progress regarding land reform and security of tenure in the form of the transfer and registration of title deeds is arguably a failure of the State to uphold the Constitution of the Republic …
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Land reform in Uganda : harmonising the land tenure systems of Uganda, 1900-2003
… model by which the existing diverse and complex land tenure systems of Uganda could be harmonised into a formal land tenure structure that is simple, easily managed by the land registry officials, focused on the local level and readily understood by the community. Moreover, it would be regulated …
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The Irish law on adverse possession: the case for a qualified veto system
… system of adverse possession which would govern land that has been registered in the Land Registry and also unregistered land.<br/><br/>This reform would permit the owner of land to veto an adverse possession application unless the applicant qualifies under one of the exceptions formulated to the …
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Problems of music education: a comparative study
… system of adverse possession which would govern land that has been registered in the Land Registry and also unregistered land.<br/><br/>This reform would permit the owner of land to veto an adverse possession application unless the applicant qualifies under one of the exceptions formulated to the …
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Essays on Public Economics
… policy that detected buildings not reported on land registry in Italy. Using cross-municipality variation in scope for enforcing buildings’ registration, I show that tax collections account for around three-fourth of the projected revenue increase. I find complementarity between enforcement and …
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Untangling the Web: The role of Offshore Financial Centers in Real Estate
… by FDI data, we identify the British Virgin Islands as the most dominant Offshore Financial Center. We note that most companies registered there have their ownership in Hong Kong. Given that China is the largest holder of FDI stock in Hong Kong, the results would suggest that much of the funds …
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The Hollow Promise: 'Guarantee of Title' in Registered Land
… obtained upon the registration of an estate in land is an oft-cited yet elusive concept. The term has become ubiquitous, yet with no unanimity as to its meaning. It is often recognised as a fundamental principle of the land registration system, yet the actual meaning of the ‘guarantee’, what it …
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St Albans Abbey and the Law, c. 1327–1396
… invoked. Few actors from fourteenth-century England are sufficiently well documented for this to be possible: the Benedictine monastery of St Albans is a major exception. This dissertation therefore looks at the legal relationships of St Albans in four spheres: church, realm, town and manor. In …
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Luoghi e identità: ricostruzione storica dello spazio agrario, sociale e politico della baronia di Monreale nella Sardegna dell’età moderna
… forms of property ownership (conveyancing of land and property), the urban demographic patterns of villages as well as the various typologies of dwellings . The investigation starts off with a historical exploration of the main events in Sardinia in modern times, focusing on those concerning …
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Three Essays in Environmental and Land Economics
… 2018) and 5 billion acres (38%) of the world’s land area is farmland (FAO, 2020). Moreover, agriculture accounts for a significant portion of global deforestation, forest fragmentation, and habitat loss (Defries, Rudel, Uriarte, & Hansen, 2010; Rudel, Defries, Asner, & Laurance, 2009), while …
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A blockchain-based land titles registry in Namibia
Land administration systems in many countries are vulnerable and lack transparency, which leads to fraud, delays, and significant costs, especially in developing countries like Namibia. This study aims to address these issues by proposing a blockchain-based land titles registry to preserve land …
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The tenement house as a building form in relation to the large-scale urban development of Warsaw 1864-1919
The evolving urban landscape has been investigated in thesocio-economic context of Warsaw's incorporation into theRussian Empire (another defeated Polish Uprising, ruralimmigation in the wake of tsarist social reforms from 1861,Jewish immigration from the Empire's interior, economicintegration and …
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Zásada superficies solo cedit a její význam v pozemkovém právu
Tématem této diplomové práce je návrat zásady superficies solo cedit do českého právního řádu. Práce má za cíl komplexní náhled a analýzu problematiky této zásady na základě jejího zasazení do historického i soudobého kontextu. Dalším z cílů této práce je pohled na zápis zásady včetně souvisejících …