"land" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Most people on Savai'i, 93% of the island population, live on customary land.
- The matai of the family is the administrator and representative of the family property which includes customary land.
- Most of the population in Samoa, 65% overall, live with their families in villages on customary land.
- The term refers historically to the appropriation of customary land by European colonial powers.
- In most countries of the Pacific islands customary land remains the dominant land tenure form.
- Malaysian court decisions from the 1950s on have held that customary lands were inalienable.
- Decisions in the 1970s and 1980s blocked state-sanctioned logging on customary land.
- In customary law jurisdictions, customary land is the predominant form of land ownership.
- Not to be confused with customary land.
- The chiefs (matai) of Satapuala have made legal claims to return customary land from the government for many years.
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