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  1. Library Resource
    Legislation
    Guam, Oceania

    There is created the "Land Claimants Small Loan Revolving Fund" to grant loans to those persons who are eligible to bring proceedings for additional compensation under the provisions of section 204 of the Omnibus Territories Act of 1977 for additional compensation for land acquired by the United States between July 21, 1944 and August 23, 1963, in the manner provided by such statute.

  2. Library Resource
    Legislation
    Guam, Oceania

    This Chapter grants the right to civil action to: (a) any person whose property is injuriously affected, or whose personal enjoyment is lessened by a nuisance, as the same is defined in 20 GCA; (b) the Attorney General in the name of the government of Guam to abate a public nuisance as the same is defined in 20 GCA; (c) any person aggrieved by the waste caused by a guardian, tenant for life or years, joint tenant, or tenant in common of real property; (d) an owner of a land against any person who cuts down or carries off any wood or underwood, tree, or timber, or girdles or otherwise injure

  3. Library Resource
    Legislation
    Guam, Oceania

    This Chapter provides in general for matters relating to liens: definition of liens; creation of liens; effect of liens; priority of liens; redemption from liens; and extinction of liens. A lien is a charge imposed in some mode other than by a transfer in trust upon specific property by which it is made security for the performance of an act, e.g. mortgages. A general lien is one which the holder thereof is entitled to enforce as a security for the performance of all the obligations, or all of a particular class of obligations, which exist in his favour against the owner of the property.

  4. Library Resource
    Legislation
    Guam, Oceania

    This Chapter defines the duties of tenant for life, coterminous owners, two or more persons are associated by agreement in the use of an asset belonging to a property, etc. The owner of a life Estate shall be required to carry out duties defines in section 1 with respect to the estate. Neighbouring owners are mutually bound equally to maintain the boundaries, monuments and fences between them.

  5. Library Resource
    Legislation
    Guam, Oceania

    This Chapter defines mortgages and the legal obligations they create and prescribes how mortgages are created, renewed and extended, their effects on real property, how they are to be extinguished, etc. Mortgage is a contract by which specific property is hypothecated for the performance of an act, without the necessity of a change of possession. A mortgage can be created, renewed or extended, only by writing, executed with the formalities required in the case of a grant of real property.

  6. Library Resource
    Legislation
    Guam, Oceania

    This Chapter provides for public access to the ocean shore, i.e. land between the mean low waterline and series of lines connecting angle points prescribed in section 3. Extensive areas of ocean shore are inaccessible to the public due to the absence of public rights-of-way and the ocean is a vital part of the patrimony of the people of Guam and is a major source of recreation and livelihood. In order to safeguard access to the ocean shore this Chapter provides for protection and maintenance of traditional rights of way to the ocean.

  7. Library Resource
    Legislation
    Guam, Oceania

    This Chapter defines property and ownership in general and contains various rules regarding the property of land, fixtures and wild animals. This Act defines “ownership”, “property”, “real property” “land” and “appurtenances” and contains rules relative to ownership of real property. The Act also contains a clause on the ownership of wild animals. The Act declares that animals wild by nature are the subject of ownership, while living, only when on the land of the person claiming them, or when tamed, or taken and held in possession, or disabled and immediately pursued.

  8. Library Resource
    Legislation
    Guam, Oceania

    The purpose of this Chapter is to establish a uniform policy for the fair and equitable treatment of persons displaced by the acquisition of real property under Government of Guam land acquisition programs, by building code enforcement activities, or by a program of voluntary rehabilitation of buildings or other improvements conducted pursuant to governmental supervision (sect. 1). The Act provides financial support for displaced persons and in particular provides support for relocation of farm operations, i.e.

  9. Library Resource
    Legislation
    Guam, Oceania

    This Chapter defines certain rights and owners of real property and tenants for life. The owner of a life estate may use the land in the same manner as the owner of a fee simple, except that he or she must do no act to the injury of the inheritance. Sections 2 and 3 of Article 1 define property rights of a Tenants for Years. Section 6 defines rights of lessees and assignees against his immediate lessor, for the breach of any agreement in the lease.

  10. Library Resource
    Legislation
    January, 2006
    Oceania, Guam

    This Chapter defines and classifies servitudes and defines rights and obligations deriving from such land burdens. Easements, i.e. servitudes attached to land include: a) the right of pasture; (b) The right of fishing; (c) the right of taking game; (d) the right of way; (e) the right of taking water, wood, minerals, and other things; (f) and the right of having water flow without diminution or disturbance of any kind. Servitudes not attached to land include the right to pasture, and of fishing and taking game (sects. 1 and 2).

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