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Displaying 2006 - 2010 of 15550Decreto Legislativo Nº 797 - Ley de reforma agraria.
La presente Ley de reforma agraria, tiene por objeto la reforma social y económica del agro nicaragüense a través de una modificación fundamental de la tenencia de la tierra y de la estructuración jurídica y sistemas de explotación de la misma, tendiente a obtener, con la equitativa distribución del área cultivable y de su renta y con el incremento de la producción, la elevación del nivel de vida de las masas campesinas y su incorporación al proceso de transformación de la economía del país y al desarrollo integral de la Nación.
Local Customary Law (Declaration) (No. 4) Order (G.N. No. 436/1963).
This Notice contains in its Schedules declared customary law on guardianship, inheritance and wills. As to guardianship of women and children, certain powers and restrictions are placed un guardians regarding agricultural crops and livestock. A guardian is forbidden from selling land or permanent crops which are under his protection. As for inheritance, women are allowed to inherit except clan land. They can use clan land without selling it during their lifetime. But if there are no men in that clan, a woman can inherit this land completely.
Africans on Private Estates Tribunal Rules (Cap. 33:01).
These Rules concern procedures of the Africans on Private Estates Tribunal as established under section 18 of the Africans on Private Estates Act. Application to the Tribunal shall be made only by a person (including the Government) aggrieved by an act, omission or determination of any other person under the Act.
Implements: Africans on Private Estates Act (Cap. 33:01). (1988)
Regulation No. 25 of 1962 amending the regulation for lease of beaches, islands and Miri surf lands on which pastures or liquorice are naturally grown (No. 33 of 1961).
The amendment replaces article 13 concerning breach of lease contracts. Any person that uses the leased lands other than in the way specified in the lease contract and without permission of the competent authority shall be liable to pay a fine of double the lease amount.