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Spain ceded Guam to the US in 1898. Captured by the Japanese in 1941, it was retaken by the US three years later. The military installations on the island are some of the most strategically important US bases in the Pacific.


Guam is a presidential democracy. Guam is a self-governing unincorporated territory of the US.


Source: CIA World Factbook

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Actions to Determine Conflicting Claims to Real Property, and Other Provisions Relating to Actions Concerning Real Estate – Chapter 25 of 21 GCA "Real Property".

Legislation
Guam
Océanie

This Chapter contains rules relative to various kinds of actions required for determination of conflicting claims regarding real properties. Actions here regulated include: action to quiet title to real and personal property, an order made to allow a party to survey and measure the land in dispute, establishment of value of improvements on property and other increase in value, recovery of damages, actions during proceedings, injuctions, etc.

Chamorro Land Trust Commission – Chapter 75 of 21 GCA “Real Property”.

Legislation
Guam
Océanie

This Chapter provides for various matters regarding the Chamorro Land Trust Commission, for the grant of leases to a native Chamorros and relates matters and provides for loans for the development of Chanorro communities and lands and for the establishment of various Funds for these purposes. There is within the government of Guam the Chamorro Land Trust Commission. The Commission shall grant leases and otherwise be responsible for the development of Chamorro lands.

Eminent Domain - Government's Power - Chapter 15 of 21 GCA “Real Property”.

Legislation
Guam
Océanie

This Chapter assigns the power to the Government of Guam to acquire real property by the exercise of eminent domain. Eminent Domain is the right or power of the government to take private property for public use, the right of the government or department or agency thereof, or public corporation to whom the power is delegated by law to condemn private property for public use and to appropriate the ownership and possession thereof for such use upon paying the owner due compensation therefor.

Guam Ancestral Lands Commission - Chapter 80 of 21 GCA “Real Property”.

Legislation
Guam
Océanie

This Chapter provides for various matters relative to title in ancestral and for the creation of the Guam Ancestral Lands Commission. Ancestral Lands shall mean those lands owned privately by residents of Guam on or after January 1, 1930. Section 2 affirms responsibility of the government of Guam to enforce rights in private property, as a civil right, pursuant to the laws of the United States of America applicable to Guam and the Laws of Guam and provides otherwise for the recognition of ancestral land rights.

Accession to Real Property - Chapter 20 of 21 GCA “Real Property”.

Legislation
Guam
Océanie

This Chapter provides for title to accessory matters to land such as fixtures put on the land by others, new land formed by alluvium, river banks carried away by sudden violence, island formed in a stream which is not navigable, islands formed by division of a river. The Chapter also provides for removing of removable fixtures by a tenant.