Although few of the authors have read anything about him except that he talked to birds, they have raised poor Francis to the rank of first «ecological saint,» while conveniently ignoring his myriad admonitions about asceticism and
communal ownership of property.
Not exact matches
The destruction
of the Jajmani system,
communal ownership of landed
property, by the British and introduction
of legal land relationship changed the situation
of Dalits for the worse.
Private
property must, therefore, be abolished and in its place must come the common utilization
of all instruments
of production and the distribution
of all products according to common agreement — in a word, what is called the
communal ownership of goods.
Counter to this view is the fact that
communal Indigenous land
ownership reflects ancient traditional forms
of property in Aboriginal societies, giving expression to Indigenous living cultures.
What distinguishes this decision from previous ones is that it recognises the distinctiveness
of Indigenous concepts
of land,
communal ownership and inalienability, while at the same time incorporating these concepts into the non-Indigenous domain
of property.
The Court found that the right
of everyone to use and enjoy their
property extended to Indigenous
communal ownership of land «through an evolutionary interpretation
of international instruments for the protection
of human rights».
... Among indigenous peoples there is a communitarian tradition regarding a
communal form
of collective
property of the land, in the sense that
ownership is not centred on an individual but rather on the group and its community.
Given the extent
of individual
property ownership opportunities that already exist on communally held land (outlined in Chapter 2), there may be scope to develop policy and practice and extend the home
ownership programme to
communal lands.
This factor alone has ramifications for whether or not the change from
communal to individual
property interests will promote economic development or provide opportunity for home
ownership in parts
of Australia subject to native title.
The textbooks tell us that
ownership in a
property can take a number
of forms, such as sole
ownership, joint
ownership,
communal property or leasehold.