Customary land is land held under customary land tenure and the enjoyment of some use of land that arises through customary, unwritten practice rather...

law doctrine that the land rights of indigenous peoples to customary tenure persist after the assumption of sovereignty to that land by another colonising...

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...

family property, consisting most importantly of customary land. About 81% (567,000 acres), is under customary ownership, with the rest under the national...

pertains to physical land and its resources. Property can be bought and acquired following statutory or customary laws. Eighty percent of land in Ghana is owned...

carried out in defense of "what has always been done and accepted by law". Customary law (also, consuetudinary or unofficial law) exists where: a certain legal...

inalienable tenure. This customary land notionally covers most of the usable land in the country (some 97% of total land area); alienated land is either held privately...

Copyhold was a form of customary land ownership common from the Late Middle Ages into modern times in England. The name for this type of land tenure is derived...

ideas of land control more closely affiliated with individual land ownership. "Informal" or "customary" land systems refer to ideas of land control more...

In Nepal, some customary units of measurement are still used, although the metric system has been the official standard since 1968. The kos (kosh, krosh...

Liberia, squatting is one of three ways to access land, the other being ownership by deed or customary ownership. West Point was founded in Monrovia in...

magistrate's court, or by the Customary Land Appeal Court if the dispute relates to customary land. The Customary Land Appeal Court hears only cases relating...

legal claim for customary land lost during the German era of Samoan colonialism. The dispute dates back to 1886 when customary land was sold to the family...

of customary land tenure. Proponents argue that providing formal titles increases security of land tenure, supports development of markets in land, and...

also promised to consider whether it may be possible to restore customary ownership of land alienated for public purposes during the colonial era, notably...

decision to uphold its ruling in 2010 that acknowledges customary land titles as communal land for indigenous peoples. Another such case is the Caribbean...

Customary international law is an aspect of international law involving the principle of custom. Along with general principles of law and treaties, custom...

cocoa, including 11,772 ha on unencumbered state land and 3,522 on what was formerly native customary land. In 1981, it withdrew from almost all rubber schemes...

owned Māori customary land into Māori freehold land. The Act created the Native Land Court to identify ownership interests in Māori land and to create...

distinctive groups and tribes, each with its own language, culture and customary land. Each group considers itself independent and different from the other...

principles of customary law which governs the holding of matai titles and customary land—each legal system has its own court." Customary law is also primary...

The customary norms in a given society may include indigenous land rights[dubious – discuss], honour, filial piety, customary law and the customary international...

non-compliance, and connect people with the land and with each other, through a system of relationships. Indigenous customary law is not uniform across Australia...

allocate Trust Land to their communities in accordance with customary law. After 1936, Native Trust Land constituted over 80% of the land in Nyasaland and...

the metric system), the British imperial system, and the United States customary system. In antiquity, systems of measurement were defined locally: the...

of the Marlborough Sounds Maori customary land. After lower court decisions and consequent appeals in the Maori Land Court, the Maori Appellate Court...

controversial. Some of the land owned by the corporation was taken during the colonial era and is claimed as customary land by village councils. In 1997...

metres (0.49 acres). The jerib was roughly equivalent to the other customary land measures in south Asia and the Middle East, the Indian bigha and the...

African customary law refers to a usually uncodified legal system developed and practised by the indigenous communities of South Africa. Customary law has...

land rights of indigenous peoples are referred to as aboriginal title. In customary law jurisdictions, customary land is the predominant form of land...