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Property Law in Ghana. Property law in Ghana is the area of formal and informal law that governs how citizens can acquire, register, and maintain property. [1] Property in this instance pertains to physical land and its resources. [2] Property can be bought and acquired following statutory or customary laws. [2]
Alienated land is land which has been acquired from customary landowners by the government, either for its own use or for private development. The term refers historically to the appropriation of customary land by European colonial powers, such as the acquisition of customary land in the Yucatán that preceded the Caste War of Yucatán (1847-1915), in which the native Maya population rebelled ...
A number of methods of acquisition of sovereignty are or have been recognised by international law as lawful methods by which a state may acquire sovereignty over territory. International law adopts much of Roman property law in regards to acquisition of sovereignty due to the underlying European civil law at the time of early discovery voyages ...
Customary land. Customary land is land held under customary land tenure and the enjoyment of some use of land that arises through customary, unwritten practice rather than through written codified law. [1] It is the tenure usually associated with indigenous communities and administered in accordance with their customs, as opposed to statutory ...
Land law. Land law is the form of law that deals with the rights to use, alienate, or exclude others from land. In many jurisdictions, these kinds of property are referred to as real estate or real property, as distinct from personal property. Land use agreements, including renting, are an important intersection of property and contract law.
In 1732, the Parliament of Great Britain passed legislation entitled “The Act for the More Easy Recovery of Debts in His Majesty’s Plantations and Colonies in America”, sometimes known as the Debt Recovery Act of 1732, which required all land and slave property in British America to be treated as chattel for debt collection purposes. It ...
Indigenous land rights are the rights of Indigenous peoples to land and natural resources therein, either individually or collectively, mostly in colonised countries. Land and resource-related rights are of fundamental importance to Indigenous peoples for a range of reasons, including: the religious significance of the land, self-determination, identity, and economic factors.
Land grabbing is the large-scale acquisition of land through buying or leasing of large pieces of land by domestic and transnational companies, governments, and individuals. While used broadly throughout history, land grabbing as used in the 21st century primarily refers to large-scale land acquisitions following the 2007–08 world food price ...