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Settled Estates Leasing Act.

An Act to facilitate leases of settled estates.

Legislation
Zimbabwe, Africa, Eastern Africa
Land & Gender
land inheritance rights
leases
This Act concerns the lease of settled estates. "Settled estate" is defined in section 2 as "all immovable property and all estates or interests in any such immovable property, which are subject of any settlement". "Settlement" is defined as "any deed, agreement, will or other instrument under or by virtue of which any immovable property or any estate or any interest in any such immovable property stands limited to or in trust for any person or persons by way of succession or for a life or lives, or for a term of years determinable with the death of any person".
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Titles Registration and. Derelict Lands Act [Chapter 20:20].

An Act to provide for the registration of title in certain cases, and for the disposal of certain derelict lands.

Legislation
Zimbabwe, Africa, Eastern Africa
land
cadastres
land registration
Persons having acquired a just and lawful right of title in derelict lands, either by prescription or by contract or in any other manner, may apply to the High Court to order the registration of such title (sect. 3). Section 4 provides for the application for the registration of land by persons entitled to "expropriate" such land. Section 5 provides for the application to the high Court for relief by persons having a claim on derelict land.
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Alienated Land (Information) Act [Chapter 20:02].

An Act to provide for the obtaining of information regarding the nature and extent of occupation or use of alienated land.

Legislation
Zimbabwe, Africa, Eastern Africa
land ownership
This Act concerns control on the use of alienated land. Whenever the President considers it necessary or expedient to do so, he or she may make Regulations for the purpose of ascertaining the nature and extent of the occupation or use of alienated land (sect. 2). The Regulations may, among other things, require owners or occupiers of alienated land to supply specified information and prescribe powers and duties of officers appointed under section 4. Such officers may be appointed by the Minister for the purpose the nature and extend of occupation and use of alienated land.
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Land Survey Act (Chapter 20:12).

An Act to consolidate and amend the laws relating to the survey of land.

Legislation
Zimbabwe, Africa, Eastern Africa
Land Conflicts
land subdivision
land registration
surveyors
cadastres
land law
land dispute resolution
This Act provides rules relative to the survey of land. consists of 49 sections which are divided into 9 Parts: Preliminary (I); Administration (II); Recognition and Duties of Land Surveyors (III); Original Surveys and Re-surveys (IV); Division Surveys (V); Townships (VI); Beacons and Boundaries (VII); General Plans and Diagrams (VIII); Miscellaneous (IX).At Harare a Surveyor-General's Office is established (sect. 7). A Survey Regulations Board is established under section 8. The Board may make Regulations, with approval of the Minister, prescribing matters specified in section 9.
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Prescription Act [Chapter 8:11].

An Act to provide for the acquisition of ownership of things by prescription, the acquisition and extinction of servitudes by prescription and the extinction of debts by prescription; and to make provision for matters connected therewith.

Legislation
Zimbabwe, Africa, Eastern Africa
This Act shall not apply to rights and obligations governed by customary law of any person other than the State. This Act shall bind the State (sect. 3). Subject to provisions of Part II and Part V, a person shall by prescription become the owner of a thing which he has possessed openly and as if he were the owner thereof for: (a) an uninterrupted period of thirty years; or (b) a period which, together with any periods for which such thing was so possessed by his predecessors in title, constitutes an uninterrupted period of thirty years.
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Rural Land Occupiers (Protection from Eviction) Act, 2001 [Chapter 20:26].

An Act to protect certain occupiers of rural land from eviction; and to provide for matters connected with or incidental thereto.

Legislation
Zimbabwe, Africa, Eastern Africa
leases
This Act declares that a person occupying rural land who, but for this Act, would be subjected to any legal proceedings for an order for the recovery of possession, shall be a protected occupier of rural land for the period referred to in subsection four, if: (a) that person was occupying the land on the fixed date and is still occupying the land at the date of commencement of this Act; and (b) that person occupied such land in anticipation of being resettled by an acquiring authority on that or any other land for agricultural purposes in terms of the Land Acquisition Act [Chapter 20:10]; a
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Farmers Stop-order Act [Chapter 18:11].

An Act to provide for the registration by farmers of stop-orders and special stop orders binding their crops and the proceeds thereof; and for matters incidental thereto.

Legislation
Zimbabwe, Africa, Eastern Africa
public ownership
land ownership
This Act concerns: (a) any written agreement or undertaking executed by a farmer whereunder the farmer: (i) purports to give to the holder (defined in section 2) any right, title or interest in or over the whole or part of any crop which has been, is being or is to be grown or produced in Zimbabwe or the proceeds thereof; and (ii) authorizes any person to pay to the holder the whole or part of the proceeds of such crop (“stop-order”); and (b) an unregistered stop-order which has been executed by a farmer who farms within Communal Land or within such other area as may be prescribed and of wh
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Inner Bank Titles Act [Chapter 20:09].

An Act to alter and amend the boundaries of certain lands.

Legislation
Zimbabwe, Africa, Eastern Africa
cadastres
land ownership
land registration
This Act concerns the ownership of so-called “inner banks”. Section 2 makes provision for the definition of boundaries in original grants of land made by the British South Africa Company. The boundary shall be the centre of the said river or stream. Any subsequent transfer of land the boundary of which is so described under one undivided transfer shall be deemed to have conveyed the land up to the centre of the river or stream mentioned as a boundary in the original grant or diagram, and to have vested the ownership of the land as thus bounded in the holder of the title to the land.
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Hippo Valley Agreement Act [Cap. 20:08].

An Act to confirm and give effect to an agreement between the Government and Hippo Valley Estates Limited; and to provide for matters incidental thereto.

Legislation
Zimbabwe, Africa, Eastern Africa
This Act is repealed by Section 8 of the Land Acquisition Amendment Act 1 of 2004. Notwithstanding any condition contained in any agreement of lease, or sale or other disposition between the Hippo Valley Estates Limited or its successors in title and any person in respect of land transferred to it or under its control in terms of the agreement set out in the Schedule to the repealed Act, or contained in any title deed in respect of such land, the State may, in terms of the principal Act, compulsorily acquire as agricultural land required for resettlement purposes any such land.
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Wills Act [Chapter 6:06].

An Act to consolidate and amend the law regarding the execution, validity, interpretation and protection of wills and the disposal of property by will; and to provide for matters connected with or incidental to the foregoing.

Legislation
Zimbabwe, Africa, Eastern Africa
Land & Gender
land inheritance rights
land ownership
This Act concerns the making, revocation and effect of wills. Any person who has capacity pursuant to this Act to make a will may therein: (a) make provision for the transfer, disposal or disposition of the whole or any part of his estate; and (b) make provision for the custody or guardianship after his or her death of any of his minor children; and (c) make any other lawful provision, disposition or direction, whether in respect of his or her own or any other property or in respect of any other matter.