Sentences with phrase «alien land law»

By 1925, John had save enough money to purchase land, but he had to register it in Carl's name because the New Mexico alien land law (1918) and the Oriental Exclusion Act (1924) forbade foreign born Asians from owning land.

However, the Alien Land Laws that prohibited «aliens ineligible for citizenship» from owning agricultural land were now changed to now prohibit them from even leasing lands.

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Only in a setting where the poor and the alien have a right to the produce of the fields and where laws regarding land and family» were designed to prevent the rise of a pertnanent underclass could Ruth's initiative have been exercised with any effect at all.

As a result of this law, in order to purchase land in excess of one half acre within a city or town, or in excess of ten acres outside a city or town, an alien must obtain a license from the Minister of Natural Resources.

[T] he Native Title Act went a substantial way in settling the fundamental grievance of indigenous Australia; the brutal dispossession of their lands and the smashing of their ways of life at the hands of an alien imperial power... I saw the opportunity of the native title route as a modality in dealing with and settling unresolved questions of indigenous land justice in this country... One of its main objects is to «provide for the recognition and protection of native title»; that is, those rights and interests finding their origin in indigenous law and custom; not finding those rights and interests arising solely or peculiarly from the Act itself.