Sentences with phrase «common land law»

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America is a land of liberty, where we build laws for the common good.

The Common Council's Laws and Rules Committee on Wednesday advanced a resolution seeking requests for proposals from potential vendors who would lease the city - owned land.

Legislators debated Monday whether Connecticut should ease restrictions on absentee ballots and also join 37 other states by allowing early voting.Early voting is common around the country but has never become law in the Land of Steady Habits.

The candidate promises to hit D.C. with a head full of steam to tackle issues important to the district such as the controversial RLUIPA religious land use law, Common Core, health care and what he calls HUD overreach.

It warned that they should desist from flouting the law of the land and stop wasting the common patrimony of the people of the state on political jamboree at a time when the INEC had not permitted political rallies in the state.

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Before Common Core became the law of the land, public schools tried, and might still try in some places, to uniquely arrange classes to help students learn.

In fact, the debate in this country over land use has become emblematic of American democracy: a struggle between competing special interest groups to influence common laws and policies through elections.

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The Aboriginal perspective appears to be taken more seriously, with the Chief Justice acknowledging that it might require a conception of the possession of land that differs from that of the common law (para 41).

Justice Cromwell had analogised the standard to establish Aboriginal title to the requirements for general occupancy at common law, requiring an actual entry and actions from which an intent to occupy land could be inferred.

We hope that in addition to teaching about the common law and the civil law, we hope students will also understand that there's a basket of legal indigenous traditions across the land.»

(a) Sufficiency: The question of sufficient occupation must account for both the common law perspective (which may encompass lands used and over which effective control is exercised)[36] and the Aboriginal perspective (including the group's size, manner of life, material resources, technological abilities, and the character of the lands claimed).

However, in the case of land the common law presumption of joint tenancy has been altered by statute, so that land owned by two or more persons is presumed to be owned by them as tenants in common unless the title expressly states that they are joint tenants.

Virginia property law is the area of law that governs the various form of ownership in real property (land as distinct from personal or movable possessions) and in personal property, within the common law legal system.

Property issues and disputes of all types, including: contracts for the acquisition, development and management of land; options and conditional contracts; overage claims; project management and similar contracts; mortgages and other security arrangements, including enforcement disputes; planning and other statutory issues connected with property contracts; leases of all types; landlord and tenant disputes (particularly commercial — including retail, leisure and distribution — and residential); rent reviews; leasehold enfranchisement; rights over land (including easements, covenants and rights of light); trespass and nuisance claims; disputed asset disposals; estate agency; property - related competition law issues; and commons and village greens.

In addition, although the statutory and common law frameworks are different for First Nations and local governments (sometimes in very important ways), municipal law can still be very useful for developing governance mechanisms and approaches for reserve and treaty settlement lands.

The accreditation requires demonstration of expertise across all legal and other issues which affect farmers and landed estate owners, including farming business structures, trusts, taxation, land law, agricultural holdings, town and country planning and the Common Agricultural Policy.

Katharine is a Fellow of the Agricultural Law Association (ALA) which recognises her detailed knowledge of various aspects of agricultural and rural issues including trusts, taxation, land law, agricultural holdings, Town and Country Planning and the Common Agricultural PoliLaw Association (ALA) which recognises her detailed knowledge of various aspects of agricultural and rural issues including trusts, taxation, land law, agricultural holdings, Town and Country Planning and the Common Agricultural Polilaw, agricultural holdings, Town and Country Planning and the Common Agricultural Policy.

As Justice Goss noted (at para 20), the Alberta Court of Appeal held in Kolias v Condominium Plan 309 CDC, 2008 ABCA 379 (CanLII) at para 10, the Land Titles Act «preserves the common law respecting restrictive covenants.»

In 2015, Governor Nikki Haley signed into law Act No. 65 (H. 3266), codifies the common law and its limitations on liability by land possessors and provides exceptions; thereby, protecting landowners from frivolous lawsuits.

And in 2015, the Coalition successfully lobbied for the passage of H. 3266 (Act No. 65), that codifies the common law and its limitations on liability by land possessors and provides exceptions; thereby, protecting landowners from frivolous lawsuits.

The bill, now Act No. 65, codifies the common law and its limitations on liability by land possessors and provides exceptions; thereby, protecting landowners from frivolous lawsuits.

The law of the land is the federal and state constitutions and legislation, first and foremost, with decisions of judges, common law, filling in where those are vague or silent.

-- The major distinctions between fee simple and aboriginal title are that land under aboriginal title can not be sold except to the Crown; it is held communally; and its legal sources are a combination of common law and aboriginal law.

Since land acquisition has deep political and legal roots in this country, several of the laws that govern real estate transactions are based upon the common law system.

The Specific Claims Tribunal determined Williams Lake had established the validity of the claim against the federal Crown: there were pre-emptive purchases of the lands by settlers, in contravention of colonial policy and law; such contraventions constituted a breach of a legal obligation, pursuant to colonial legislation pertaining to reserved lands; B.C. failed to act honourably and was in breach of its fiduciary duties at common law, by failing to put the Indian interest in settlement lands ahead of settlers» interests; Canada was liable for B.C.'s pre-Confederation breaches of legislation and fiduciary duty, pursuant to the Act; and Canada also breached its post-Confederation fiduciary duties by failing to provide reserve lands to Williams Lake.

Traditionally in common law, the contract is the law of the parties and the law of the land serves to complement and supplement the contract if necessary.

This area of law included conveyancing and land registration, markets and fairs, commons and town and village greens, covenants affecting land, easements, and the construction, interpretation and drafting of documents, and aspects of planning and local government law.

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The ruling precedent is the decision of the Supreme Court of Canada in Bank of Montreal v. Dynex Petroleum Ltd, which changed the common law to permit a GOR to achieve status as an interest in land.

Lastly, following driving laws of the land can be summed up into common sense.

Bromley Technical College, Bromley, Kent, UK Certificate of Part 1 of Legal Executives Exam Studied contract, civil, common, criminal, land law, and conveyancing.

Mabo created a discontinuity between what was regarded before and after Mabo as an acceptable basis for the common law treatment of Indigenous rights to land.

The criteria for determining the relationship between Indigenous and non-Indigenous interests on the same land at common law fail to provide for the co-existence of these interests

Second, the impossibility of there being a common law construct of native title which is equivalent to the Indigenous relationship to land does not require that the search for equivalence be abandoned.

The re-evaluation of the relationship between Indigenous law and custom and the common law in Mabo was not understood as equating Indigenous connections to land into common law property right categories.

Instead the search for equivalence in the common law's translation of Indigenous culture should be aimed at the level of protection that the common law gives to Indigenous relationships to land compared with the protection it gives to non-Indigenous interests in land.

The effect of the finding that the non-extinguishment principle has no operation in the common law is that many tenures, in addition to those specified in the NTA, extinguish native title rights and interests permanently, and that this extinguishment has a cumulative effect as new tenures are created over the same land.

[47] Under Australian common law, the usual position is that the party possessing land also has rights to the minerals (except gold and silver) in that land, [48] unless changed by statute.

The «title to land» approach employs common law property notions to establish the degree of protection of native title that is to be granted by the common law.

At the same time there is implicit in the translation process a recognition that exact equivalence between the Indigenous relationship to land and a common law interest in land can never be found.

The decisions in Miriuwung Gajerrong and Wilson v Anderson [9] have established the common law tests for extinguishment and the ease with which native title rights and interests can be permanently extinguished by the creation of other interests on traditional land.

The result of the approach of the majority in the Miriuwung Gajerrong case is that even though Aboriginal people may continue to maintain a spiritual connection with the land, the common law will consider their native title rights to be extinguished where an inconsistency occurs.

The translation of Indigenous relationships to land into a bundle of rights fails to provide protection to the enjoyment of Indigenous law and culture within the common law.

Thus, in Mabo, the influence of terra nullius on the common law's denial of Indigenous rights to land is replaced by the influence of international human rights standards on the recognition of Indigenous rights to land.

«Six members of the Court... are in agreement that the common law of this country recognizes a form of native title which... reflects the entitlement of the Indigenous inhabitants, in accordance with their laws or customs, to their traditional lands», (1992) 175 CLR 1 at 15 per Mason CJ and McHugh J.

Rather, the statement signifies that while the indigenous relationship with land is entirely different to common law «proprietary» interests in land, it requires an equivalent degree of protection.

While the relationship of indigenous people with their traditional home land is «primarily a spiritual affair» or as Blackburn J. described it in Milirrpum v Nabalco Pty Ltd (1971) 17 FLR at 167, a «religious relationship», the common law applies to protect only the physical enjoyment of rights and interests that are of a kind that can be exercised on the land, and does not protect purely religious or spiritual relationships with land.

Implicit in their Honours reasoning is that because there is no equivalent of Indigenous relationships to land within the common law system of tenure, the recognition of these unique relationships within the common law can not resemble or bear any equivalence to the common law.