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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"land law"”.
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Politics and conflict in development: land, law and progress in Jharkhand, India
… the Pathalgadi movement and call the state unlawful and corrupt if it enters their land. Central to these conflicts is the question of development. Seen in its raw form it is the conflict between the ‘modern’ and ‘traditional’ pursuits of development by the state and the Adivasi respectively. …
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The Right to Control the Land: Law, Heritage and Self-Determination by Native Hawaiians
… was once an independent Indigenous sovereign island nation with a distinctive culture, history, and legislative past. The laws of the modern state of Hawai‘i reflect that history as Indigenous heritage has been integrated into state law. However, during the last forty years the laws protecting …
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Hulihia Nā Kānāwai ʻĀina: The Effects of Post-1893 Land Law Changes On Native Hawaiians - Population Demographics Supplement or Supplant?
The 1895 Land Act was a culminating step in the effort to remake Hawaiʻi into a settler-colonial landscape. Sanford Dole and the rest of the usurpers utilized white supremacist ideals to create land law changes that enabled white American immigration while dispossessing Native Hawaiians …
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The history of the occupation of land in the Cape Colony and its effect on land law and constitutionally mandated land reform
In this thesis I investigate the manner in which land was occupied in the Cape Colony by pastoral indigenous communities, colonial governments and non-indigenous settlers, and the significant role these patterns of occupation played in the development of land law in the colony until the end of the …
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RIGHTS TO PROPERTY, RIGHTS TO BUY, AND LAND LAW REFORM: APPLYING ARTICLE 1 OF THE FIRST PROTOCOL TO THE EUROPEAN CONVENTION ON HUMAN RIGHTS
… First Protocol to the ECHR in relation to Scots land law reform. Chapter one will reflect on why existing rights to property have come to be challenged. Chapter two sets out the human rights paradigm and scrutinises what rights and whose rights are engaged. Chapter three traces the development of …
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The fiction of adverse possession
Occupation of land by a squatter in England is seen as a wrong, and the squatter a trespasser. This is recognised as adverse possession and this doctrine has been established by iteration and reiteration over the long history of English land law with the sole intention of protecting the real …
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Nevada's odd response to the "Yellow Peril": Asians and the Western ineligible alien land laws
… state constitution to bar foreigners from owning land. A mere twenty-two votes decided the outcome of the election. This was the first step toward the passage of an ineligible alien land law that would have prevented land ownership by Japanese or persons of any other nationality deemed ineligible …
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The potential for trickle up : how local actors' experiments influence national forest policy planning
… in 1998, with the handing over of forest land and management responsibility to communities. The initial outcomes of this switch and the policy learning that took place as a result of experimentation with community forestry are examined. I show that learning from and sharing these …
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Emerging trends in construction law at the confluence of academia and industry
… The congruence and distinction between the law underpinning construction and engineering in academia and industry is uncertain. The research aim therefore is construction and engineering law compared and contrasted from academia to industry. The author adopted a constructionist or subjective …
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The impact of history and institutions on economic development
… with Abhijit Banerjee) focuses on the land revenue systems instituted by British colonial rulers for the collection of land revenue in India. We find that areas in which proprietary rights in land were historically given to landlords have significantly lower agricultural investments and …
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The Irish law on adverse possession: the case for a qualified veto system
… thesis argues for the reform of the Irish law on adverse possession. It explains why the doctrine, in its current state, fails to confer adequate protection on the owner against the dangers of losing title to an adverse possessor and it illustrates how the law permits 'undeserving' adverse …
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Problems of music education: a comparative study
… thesis argues for the reform of the Irish law on adverse possession. It explains why the doctrine, in its current state, fails to confer adequate protection on the owner against the dangers of losing title to an adverse possessor and it illustrates how the law permits 'undeserving' adverse …
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The Effect of Construction Operations on Interests in Land
As construction materials are fixed to land or the structure of an existing building, they lose their identity as personal property and become part of the land itself. This basic proposition threatens to elevate the interest of the ultimate owner of the land, the freeholder, above the proprietors …
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Governance Challenges in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Case of Land Guards and Land Protection in Ghana
<p>Land management policy in many developing nations has been riddled with conflict because of competing land tenure systems. Having transitioned through customary tenure systems to bureaucratic property rights regimes without a complete shift from the former, Ghana’s land management system, over …
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THE FORGING OF CASTILIAN LAW: LAND DISPUTES BEFORE THE ROYAL AUDIENCIA AND THE TRANSMISSION OF A LEGAL TRADITION
… both approaches by analyzing how Castilian law formed in the eleventh, twelfth, and thirteenth centuries and was applied first through the royal court and then through the Audiencia Real Castellana (high tribunal). While there have been studies that analyze Castilian institutions, such as …
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Islamic Mortgages and Home Finance Under the Law of Real Property in England and Wales
… define Islamic mortgages within the framework of land law and to distinguish this term from other Islamic home finance arrangements. It provides a comprehensive examination of the key components of Islamic mortgages and uncovers their true legal identity. The principal objective of the thesis is …
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Enforcement of positive covenants in relation to freehold land
… a well-established principle of real property law in England and Wales that the burden of a positive covenant cannot run directly with freehold land at law or in equity. The fact that a positive covenant cannot run directly with freehold land has for many years been acknowledged to be a major …
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Putting the Person Back Into Property: An Assessment of the Place of Human Vulnerability Within Mortgagee Possession Claims Against Homes
… this thesis is to provide an account of how the law currently engages with human vulnerability within mortgagee home possession claims. The main body of the thesis is comprised of five chapters. Chapter I explores literature examining vulnerability as a concept, before setting out an analytical …
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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 …