The present Act lays down provisions relating to Crown lands in the Northwest Territories and Nunavut. The Act contains at the outset a definition clause referring to various terms therein employed, such as “Crown”, “land”, “permit”, “territorial lands”, “timber”. The text- consisting of 30 sections - considers the following issues: Land management zones, sale or lease of territorial lands, mining rights, reservation from grants, slides, streams and lake fronts, trespass on territorial lands.

This Chapter provides for various matters relative to title in ancestral and for the creation of the Guam Ancestral Lands Commission. Ancestral Lands shall mean those lands owned privately by residents of Guam on or after January 1, 1930. Section 2 affirms responsibility of the government of Guam to enforce rights in private property, as a civil right, pursuant to the laws of the United States of America applicable to Guam and the Laws of Guam and provides otherwise for the recognition of ancestral land rights.

This Chapter provides for various matters regarding the Chamorro Land Trust Commission, for the grant of leases to a native Chamorros and relates matters and provides for loans for the development of Chanorro communities and lands and for the establishment of various Funds for these purposes. There is within the government of Guam the Chamorro Land Trust Commission. The Commission shall grant leases and otherwise be responsible for the development of Chamorro lands.

This Chapter concerns the recording of conveyance of real property and the effects of recording. The term conveyance embraces every instrument in writing by which any estate or interest in real property is created, alienated, mortgaged, or encumbered, or by which the title to any real property may be affected, except wills. Every conveyance of real property acknowledged or proved and certified and recorded as prescribed by law from the time it is filed with the Director of Land Management is constructive notice of the contents thereof to subsequent purchasers and mortgagees.

This Chapter provides for the management and other matters of Government land. It consists of 8 Articles divided into sections. Article 1 contains general provisions. The Department of Land Management shall have authority of all government real property for purposes of this Chapter. The Director of Land Management may, when necessary, reserve or set aside government real property not reserved by law for specific public use for the future use of any other department or agency of the government pursuant to section 5.

This Chapter defines certain matters relative to the recording of land. Any instrument or judgment affecting the title to or possession of real property may be recorded under this Chapter, provided, however, that deeds or grants conveying to a governmental agency, real estate, or any interest therein, or easements thereon, for public purposes shall not be accepted for recordation without the consent of the grantee evidenced by its acceptance attached to such deed or grant. Instruments and judgments to be recorded pursuant to this section shall be recorded by Department of Land Management.

This Law regulates legal relations in administration of agricultural land and aims at promotion of efficient and safe use of land in the interests of the people of the Kyrgyz Republic. Land is a national treasure of the Kyrgyz Republic and the property of the people, which lives on its territory. (art. 5). The State and exclusively citizens of the Kyrgyz Republic who permanently reside in rural location for at least two years have the ownership right to agricultural land in the Kyrgyz Republic (art. 6).

The purpose of the present Law is to establish the legal basis for keeping state land cadastre, use of cadastre data for economic development, ensuring the right to the plots of land, rational use, rehabilitation and protection of land. State land cadastre is a basic component of the Common system of state cadastres and represents the system of data and documentation regarding natural, economic, legal characteristics of land, categories, qualitative aspect and value, location and size of the plots of land, distribution among the owners, leaseholders and landlords thereof.

El presente Decreto crea el Registro de información catastral (RIC) que, actuando en coordinación con el Registro general de la propiedad, tiene como objeto establecer, mantener y actualizar el catastro nacional.

Implementado por: Reglamento específico para reconocimiento y declaración de tierras comunales. (2008-09-30)
Implementado por: Acuerdo Gubernativo Nº 162-2009: Reglamento de la Ley del Registro de Información Catastral. (2009-06-22)

This Law, composed of 4 articles, authorises the Government to define the legal status of land thus revising former Law No. 2030 of 22 June 1948. In particular, the Law provides the framework under which the Government shall revise the former system.

This Chapter provides for the registration of titles in land, defines effect of registration and regulates various other matters relative to registration of title and ownership of real property such as the examination of title. The Director of Land Management shall be ex officio registrar of titles and may designate one or more employees of the Department of Land Management as deputy registrars of titles (sect. 2). All land may be brought under the operation of this Law by the owner or owners of any estate or interest therein by filing a petition to the Superior Court of Guam (sect.

This Act provides for the control and coordination of land surveying and the carrying out of public surveys.“Survey” is defined in section 2. There shall be a Central Plan Office in the Office of the Surveyor General (sect. 3). A liaison officer shall be appointed in each public office under section 4. The Surveyor General may connect proposed surveys to existing surveys pursuant to section 6. For the purposes of this Act, there shall be established and maintained in the Central Plan Office a register, to be called the Central Plan Register (sect. 8).