Sentences with phrase «land law definitions»

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Not exact matches

In a few short years or even months, it is very likely that this new definition will become the law of the land, and in all jurisdictions the rights, privileges, and duties of marriage will be granted to men in partnership with men, and women with women.

Does Focus on the Family advocate for that definition of marriage to be upheld as the law of the land?

That is, based on the Bible's definition of marriage, they want it to become the law of the land that two men (or two women) can not be «married.»

In pet - related legislation, the governor vetoed a bill that would have exempted hunting dogs from the definition of pets illegally «running at large,» a change that Cuomo said could create hassles for property owners confronted by hunting dogs on their land and local law enforcement who would have to respond to such cases.

Ogu says he relied on incorrect definitions of the land law lingo when providing legal advice, and was later corrected by a colleague who directed him to a different dictionary.

A lawyer from Nigeria is suing the University of Oxford and Oxford University Press for apparently mixing up the definitions of «mortgagee» and «mortgagor» — remember that the next time you feel you're the only one in your class who can't get your land law terms down!

Who knew that, on my first day, I would be presented with the opportunity to, once and for all, dispel the myth that property and land use law is, by definition, imbued with Ambien - like, slumber - inducing characteristics?

In contrast, the title to land approach applies a more general definition of native title that leaves a space within which traditional laws and customs can determine the meaning and content of the pendant rights.

It would be wrong, in my opinion, to point to the inalienability of land by that community and, by importing definitions of «property» which require alienability under the municipal laws of our society... to deny that the indigenous people owned their land.

[61] Rather, «it may embrace self - governance in the broader sense of decision making to maintain identity including cultural matters, languages, customary law, definition of group membership and ownership and use of land».

amending the definitions of «traditional laws acknowledged», «traditional customs observed» and «connection with the land or waters» in s 223 (1) of the Native Title Act (item 13)

amending the definitions of «traditional laws acknowledged», «traditional customs observed» and «connection with the land or waters» in s 223 (1) of the Native Title Act [20]