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  1. Library Resource
    Legislation
    March, 2016
    United Kingdom

    This Act provides rules concerning how property passes on a person‘s death. This includes reforms which relate to the rectification of wills; the effect of divorce, dissolution or annulment on a will or special destination; and the revival of a revoked will. It concerns, among other things, survivorship, the provision of new rules where there is uncertainty about the order of death, forfeiture, estate administration, protections for trustees and executors in certain circumstances and for persons acquiring title in good faith.

  2. Library Resource
    Legislation
    April, 2016
    United Kingdom

    This Act brings about a comprehensive reform of the law relating to land rights and land planning and management in Scotland.

  3. Library Resource
    Legislation
    Northern Mariana Islands, Oceania

    This Act restricts the use of public lands set aside for agricultural purposes to citizens of the Northern Mariana Islands and US nationals so as to prevent large-scale commercial exploitation of such lands which are scarce.Such lands as are leased or its use is permitted in accordance with the provisions of this Act and shall be developed in accordance with their most appropriate use or uses, i.e. either agricultural, aquacultural, maricultural, or animal husbandry.

  4. Library Resource
    Legislation
    United Kingdom, Europe, Northern Europe

    This Order amends Part 1 of Schedule 8 to the Agricultural Holdings Act 1986 as it applies to England. Section 64 of the Agricultural Holdings Act 1986 entitles the tenant of an agricultural holding, on termination of the tenancy and quitting of the holding, to compensation from the landlord for an improvement specified in Part 1 of Schedule 8 which the tenant has carried out on the holding.

  5. Library Resource
    Legislation
    Sri Lanka, Asia, Southern Asia

    This Act provides for the protection of the tenant cultivator's rights from any abuse or prevarication by the landowner. It prescribes the right of the tenant to be the first one informed about the sale of the paddy land he/she is cultivating, it forbids unlawful eviction from the cultivated land, it provides for the payment of rent and the exemption from payment in case paddy land has not been cultivated or has not produced any agricultural commodities for force majeure.

  6. Library Resource
    Legislation
    Sri Lanka, Asia, Southern Asia

    Any agricultural land owned by any person in excess of the ceiling established by the Land Reform Commission shall (a) be deemed to vest in the Commission; and (b) be deemed to be held by the former owner under a statutory lease from the Commission in compliance with the terms and conditions set out by the Law.

  7. Library Resource
    Legislation
    Albania, Europe, Southern Europe

    This Law provides for the administration, rights of use and protection of pastures and meadows. Pasture and meadows are every kind of land covered by grass or shrubs which forms part of agricultural land or the forest fund according to the cadastral documentation of 1 August 1991 (and not being classified afterwards) which is used for grazing by livestock (art. 2). Pastures and meadows are classified as State-owned, State-owned made available for general use, and pastures and meadows in private or co-ownership (art. 3).

  8. Library Resource
    Legislation
    Northern Mariana Islands, Oceania

    This Act requires the Marianas Public Lands Authority to waive any conditions, limitations or regulations relating to the agricultural homesteading program in effect prior to 9 January 1978.

  9. Library Resource
    Legislation
    Lesotho, Southern Africa, Africa

    The Act makes provision with respect to titles in land, the development of selected land, and the resolution of disputes regarding land and various other matters relating to land. As a corollary to the principle that land in Lesotho is vested absolutely and irrevocably in the Basotho Nation and is held by the State, no person, other than the State, shall hold any title to land except as provided for under customary law or under this Act. Where the customary law is inconsistent with this Act, this Act shall prevail (sect. 3).

  10. Library Resource
    Legislation
    Vietnam, Asia, South-Eastern Asia

    Law amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Land Law. Amendments of the principal Law concern ownership of land by the people of Vietnam and management of land by the State (art. 1), protection of land use rights by the State (art. 3), assignment of land by the State to organizations, households and individuals (art. 4), and exemption from payment of land use levy (art. 22). Three new articles are added to the Law after article 22: they further specify when payment of land use levy is due. Four new articles are added to the Law after article 78.

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