Collective Land Ownership in the 21st Century: Overview of Global Trends
Statutory recognition of rural communities as collective owners of their lands is substantial, expanding, and an increasingly accepted element of property relations. The conventional meaning of property in land itself is changing, allowing for a greater diversity of attributes without impairing lega...
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| description | Statutory recognition of rural communities as collective owners of their lands is substantial, expanding, and an increasingly accepted element of property relations. The conventional meaning of property in land itself is changing, allowing for a greater diversity of attributes without impairing legal protection. General identified trends include: (1) declining attempts to deny that community lands are property on the grounds that they may not be sold or are owned collectively; (2) increased provision for communities to be registered owners to the same degree as individual and corporate persons; (3) a rise in number of laws catering specifically to the identification, registration and governance of community property; and (4) in laws that acknowledge that community property may exist whether or not it has been registered, and that registration formalizes rather than creates property in these cases. The research examined the laws of 100 countries to ascertain the status of lands which social communities, either traditionally or in more contemporary arrangements, deem to be their own. Sampling is broadly consistent with numbers of countries per region. The constitutions of all 100 countries were examined. The land laws of 61 countries were scrutinized. Secondary sources were used for 39 countries, mainly due to laws not being available in English. The main secondary source used was LandMark, whose data is publicly available at www.landmarkmap.org. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-01c3e5665d4243d6848cab38eaba4a692022-12-21T23:40:30ZengMDPI AGLand2073-445X2018-05-01726810.3390/land7020068land7020068Collective Land Ownership in the 21st Century: Overview of Global TrendsLiz Alden Wily0Van Vollenhoven Institute, Leiden Law School, P.O. Box 9520, 2300 RA Leiden, The NetherlandsStatutory recognition of rural communities as collective owners of their lands is substantial, expanding, and an increasingly accepted element of property relations. The conventional meaning of property in land itself is changing, allowing for a greater diversity of attributes without impairing legal protection. General identified trends include: (1) declining attempts to deny that community lands are property on the grounds that they may not be sold or are owned collectively; (2) increased provision for communities to be registered owners to the same degree as individual and corporate persons; (3) a rise in number of laws catering specifically to the identification, registration and governance of community property; and (4) in laws that acknowledge that community property may exist whether or not it has been registered, and that registration formalizes rather than creates property in these cases. The research examined the laws of 100 countries to ascertain the status of lands which social communities, either traditionally or in more contemporary arrangements, deem to be their own. Sampling is broadly consistent with numbers of countries per region. The constitutions of all 100 countries were examined. The land laws of 61 countries were scrutinized. Secondary sources were used for 39 countries, mainly due to laws not being available in English. The main secondary source used was LandMark, whose data is publicly available at www.landmarkmap.org.http://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/7/2/68propertycommunity landscustomary tenurecollective ownershipstatutory lawcustomary lawalienability |
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| title | Collective Land Ownership in the 21st Century: Overview of Global Trends |
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| title_short | Collective Land Ownership in the 21st Century: Overview of Global Trends |
| title_sort | collective land ownership in the 21st century overview of global trends |
| topic | property community lands customary tenure collective ownership statutory law customary law alienability |
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