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land tenure       Search catalogue 294921346

STA
Approved

UPD
2012-03-23

DUT
grondbezit

UFA
customary land tenure

DAT
For publications indexed before 2006, see also land law.

IND
1

MIS
The rights involved in holding land whether this involves ownership, renting or communal forms. The most common forms in contemporary industrial societies are freehold, involving ownership, and leasehold, involving some form of renting ('land tenure', Collins Dictionary of Sociology. Accessed on 28 March 2003 at www.xreferplus.com/entry/1416902). The system of ownership of land and of title to its use, generally in agriculture. Land ownership is usually relatively straightforward compared with rights to use land. Types of land tenure may be classified according to their legal basis; the relative rights of landowner and land-user; the conditions and forms of payment from the latter to the former, if any; and the security of tenants (defined either in terms of duration or of predictability). Many forms of tenure involve very complex combinations of use-rights ('land tenure', The Dictionary of Human Geography. Accessed on 28 March 2003 at www.xreferplus.com/entry/734357).

PPN
294921346

UDC
333.013 333.5 347.218.31 631.458

SN
The rights involved in holding land whether this involves ownership, renting or communal forms

MRF
332.282

NT1
landownership

RT
communal lands
land conflicts
land law
land reform
land scarcity
tenancy

BSO
10.06 PRIVATE LAW

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