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Decree-Law No. 224/84 approving the Land Registry Code.

Legislation
Portugal, Southern Europe, Europe
cadastres
land registration
The text of the Code, consisting of 153 articles arranged under 8 titles, is given in the schedule. Article 2 lists twenty-two items in respect of which registration is obligatory.
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Decree-Law No. 172/95 approving the Regulation on the Building Cadastre.

Legislation
Portugal, Southern Europe, Europe
cadastres
land registration
The Regulation on the Building Cadastre is divided into 8 Chapters: General aspects (I); Support (II); Execution of cadastre (III); Cadastre modernization (IV); Cadastre's conservation (V); Exercise of cadastral activities by other entities (VI); Product and service supply (VII); Sanctions and controls (VIII). (44 articles)
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Act No. 3/91 concerning public land.

Legislation
Sao Tome and Principe, Africa, Middle Africa
land subdivision
public ownership
urban areas
land ownership
This Act is divided into 7 Chapters and 48 articles: State lands (Chap. I); Reserves (II); Private lands owned by the State (III); Rights and obligations regime on lands (IV); Transfer procedures (V); Registries of rights and obligations (VI); Final provisions (VII). This Act defines State lands as: (a) the lands of river beds and marine waters; (b) underwater shelves; (c) any kind of island; (d) land reserved for strategic purposes; (e) private and public road lands; (f) airports (art. 1).
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Decree No. 30/92 approving the Regulation on the distribution of agricultural lands.

Regulations
Sao Tome and Principe, Africa, Middle Africa
farming systems
farmers
This Regulation is divided into 5 Chapters, 46 articles and 1 annex: Preliminary provisions (Chap.
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Decree-Law No. 349/91 regulating the granting to small farmers and cooperatives of ownership rights to land expropriated under agrarian reform.

Legislation
Portugal, Southern Europe, Europe
farmland
land ownership
This Decree-Law seeks to reprivatize land expropriated in the areas subject to past agrarian reform and assigned to small farmers or cooperatives for cropping. With due regard to the agricultural land redistribution policy, the Decree-Law grants the same categories of beneficiaries full ownership of that land provided that they have farmed it effectively and rationally for a period of not less than 7 years from the date it was allocated to them.
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Decree-Law No. 158/91 regulating the allocation of nationalized or expropriated land for cultivation.

Legislation
Portugal, Southern Europe, Europe
youth
land ownership
With due regard to the crop farm redistribution policy, this Decree-Law defines the rules governing the allocation of expropriated or nationalized land which, with few exceptions, shall not be managed directly by the State or by public entities. It shall, in general, be allocated for cropping to private individuals or bodies corporate with sufficient professional competence. These are listed, in order of priority, as young farmers (between 18 and 40 years), small farmers (without a steady salary), and groups of rural workers (cooperatives, for instance).
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Decree-Law No. 98/91 of 24 August 1991 establishing Law Courts' jurisdiction for matters relating to usufruct, lease or joint lease of rural lands, or portions of them.

Legislation
Cape Verde, Africa, Western Africa
leases
land ownership
farmland
This Decree-Law establishes that matters concerning usufruct, lease or joint lease of rural lands, or portions of them, are under the Law Courts' jurisdiction (art. 1). This Decree-Law deals with cases in which a tenant, or usufructuary, has been evicted. It establishes defences which can be presented (with or without legal representation) to the local Law Court, according to the Civil Code (art. 2). The evicted tenant may request the temporary return of the land in compliance with arts. 393-395 of the Civil Code (art. 3).
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Act No. 9/II/82 on the Agricultural Reform.

Legislation
Cape Verde, Africa, Western Africa
use rights
leases
farmland
concession (land)
land law
This Act establishes the general bases of the Agricultural Reform. The first part deals with a historical view of Cape Verdean life illustrating the different and traditional ways of exploiting agriculture, livestock and all other resources. The Act establishes the bases for the organization and accomplishment of the agricultural reform.
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Decree-Law No. 37-A/83 regulating compensation for expropriation procedures, in accordance with the Agricultural Reform.

Legislation
Cape Verde, Africa, Western Africa
farmland
This Decree-Law regulates compensation for expropriation procedures under the Agricultural Reform, in compliance with article 1, paragraph 5 of Act No. 15/II/82 of 26 March 1982. This Decree establishes that the Government and the owner(s) of expropriated land are the parties interested in compensation procedures. The representative of the Government shall be a member of the Ministry of Rural Development. Article 4 sets forth methods for establishing compensation and the criteria for land improvements (with State incentives).
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Decree-Law No. 38/83 regulating rural land leasing contracts.

Legislation
Cape Verde, Africa, Western Africa
leases
land ownership
farmland
In compliance with Act No. 15/II/82 (art. 1, para. 5) of 26 March, and with article 75, paragraph 1, point (f) of the Constitution, the Government of Cape Verde regulates the rural leasing contracts for lands not subject to expropriation, according to the Agricultural Reform Act. It also regulates rural sharecropping and rural land leasing which remain temporarily in force in compliance with articles 9 and 23 of the aforementioned Act. This Decree-Law is divided into 9 chapters concerning conditions, terms and requirements for obtaining such leasing contracts.