Land Tenure and Rural Development
Land Tenure and Rural Development

Author: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

Publisher: FAO

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 62

ISBN-13:

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This publication deals with key issues in land tenure, especially as they relate to food insecurity and rural development situations. Land tenure issues are frequently ignored in rural development interventions, with often long-lasting, negative results. This guide is designed to assist technical officers in governments and civil society in understanding why and how land tenure issues should be considered in rural development projects. It analyses important contexts such as environmental degradation, gender discrimination, and conflicts, where land tenure is currently of critical concern.

Understanding Land Tenure Law
Understanding Land Tenure Law

Author: South Africa

Publisher: Juta and Company Ltd

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 298

ISBN-13: 9780702181641

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Understanding Land Tenure Law contains a commentary on land tenure law in South Africa together with the 3 key pieces ot legislation: the Labour Tenants Act, the Extension ol Security ol Tenure Act and the Prevention ol Illegal Eviction Act. The text explains key definitions in the law and provides useful, practical guidelines on land rights deputes to government, legal practitioners, paralegals and NGOs in the land sector. The relevant case law is explained in an accessible, non-legalistic manner. Understanding Land Tenure Law also sets out the nature and scope ol legal protection available to occupiers of land and labour tenants, with a section on access to the courts, including the Land Claims Court.

Land Tenure in Sierra Leone
Land Tenure in Sierra Leone

Author: Ade Renner-Thomas

Publisher: AuthorHouse

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 451

ISBN-13: 1449058663

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This book gives a brief account of the background to the dual land tenure system in force in Sierra Leone and explains the reasons why the dualism derived from the different colonial experience of the former Colony and Protectorate of Sierra Leone still persists almost fifty years after the two entities were merged to form a unitary State of Sierra Leone. The book gives an account, for the benefit of both law students and legal practitioners, of the main features of the English derived land law in the Western Area and of the forms of land holding in the Provinces which are governed predominately by customary law. The book also highlights the practical problems that legal practitioners may be confronted with in advising clients wanting to enter into transactions involving land in Sierra Leone and in drafting legal documents for the creation or transfer of interests in land in different parts of the country. By giving an account of developments relating to policy initiatives and by laying bare the achievements and shortcomings of land tenure reform to date, the book aims to stimulate debate on current proposals for reform not only among law students and practitioners of the law but also among policy makers and members of the wider non-legal community It offers a brief but constructive criticism of the dual land tenure system and offers some proposals for reform of the system changes in the light of stated policies.

An Introduction to English Legal History
An Introduction to English Legal History

Author: John Baker

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 704

ISBN-13: 0198812604

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Fully revised and updated, this classic text provides the authoritative introduction to the history of the English common law. The book traces the development of the principal features of English legal institutions and doctrines from Anglo-Saxon times to the present and, combined with Baker and Milsom's Sources of Legal History, offers invaluable insights into the development of the common law of persons, obligations, and property. It is an essential reference point for all lawyers, historians and students seeking to understand the evolution of English law over a millennium. The book provides an introduction to the main characteristics, institutions, and doctrines of English law over the longer term - particularly the evolution of the common law before the extensive statutory changes and regulatory regimes of the last two centuries. It explores how legal change was brought about in the common law and how judges and lawyers managed to square evolution with respect for inherited wisdom.