Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community governance can be greatly impacted by the nature of
the land tenure held or managed by the community.
The NIC discusses the potential consequences and possible benefits of adjustments to the forms of
land tenure held under the various existing Land Rights legislation and Native Title legislation.
Not exact matches
Still, the old patriarchal institutions were not completely unsuited to
land tenure, and through these early centuries the idea of family possession took such firm
hold as to be written into the laws and to provide the background for the colorful incident of Jezebel's theft of Naboth's ancestral property.
A croft is often referred to jovially as a piece of
land surrounded by red tape, but it is a system of subsistence
land -
holding created by the 1886 Crofting Act to give security of
tenure to those in the areas where the Highland Clearances had been savage.
Projects reporting community -
held land tenure covered 13.7 million ha and were valued at more than $ 70 million, representing a particular interest in projects that benefit smallholders.
Land tenure categories characteristically include private holdings (5 — 25 % of national area), communal land (usually small percentage) and state lands (the majority of the land under government contr
Land tenure categories characteristically include private
holdings (5 — 25 % of national area), communal
land (usually small percentage) and state lands (the majority of the land under government contr
land (usually small percentage) and state
lands (the majority of the
land under government contr
land under government control).
Indeed, John Locke first extolled the benefits of such separation, yet in A Letter Concerning Toleration in 1689 said: «Nobody is born a member of any church; otherwise the religion of parents would descend unto children by the same right of inheritance as their temporal estates, and everyone would
hold his faith by the same
tenure he does his
lands, than which nothing can be imagined more absurd.»
The B.C. Forestry Revitalization Act permitted the Province to reduce by 20 % the
land base and allowable annual cut of forest
tenures held by forestry companies, including the Applicant, Teal Cedar Products Ltd. («Teal»).
Arbitration: The Forestry Revitalization Act, S.B.C. 2003, c. 17 permitted the Province of British Columbia to reduce by 20 per cent the
land base and allowable annual cut of forest
tenures held by British Columbia forestry companies, including the applicant, Teal Cedar Products Ltd..
The mode of
holding land All
land in Australia and the United Kingdom that has been granted by the Crown, even that in fee simple, is
held by
tenure rather than by absolute ownership, as the Crown alone is the source of all
tenure.
There are also other forms of
land tenure, in particular in relation to Aboriginal -
held land.