customary tenure

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• Customary land — is land which is owned by Indigenous communities and administered in accordance with their customs, as opposed to statutory tenure usually introduced during the colonial periods. Common ownership is one form of customary land ownership. In most… …   Wikipedia

• customary law — customary law, law which is derived by immemorial custom from ancient times: »The application of customary law is today practically limited to civil law, and mainly to land tenure, succession, tort, contract, marriage and divorce, family, and… …   Useful english dictionary

• Customary freehold — Not to be confused with customary land. Customary freehold is in English law a species of tenure which may be described as a variety of copyhold. It is also termed privileged copyhold or copyhold of frank tenure. It is a tenure by copy of court… …   Wikipedia

• tenure — /tenyar/ Generally, tenure is a right, term, or mode of holding or occupying, and tenure of an office means the manner in which it is held, especially with regard to time. Winterberg v. University of Nevada System, 89 Nev. 358, 513 P.2d 1248,… …   Black's law dictionary

• customary estates — Lands of certain copyholders of free and privileged tenure, which were derived from the ancient tenants in villein socage who did not hold at the will of the lord, but only according to the custom of the manor. The law did not regard the freehold …   Ballentine's law dictionary

• Land-Tenure in the Christian Era — • The way in which land has been held or owned during the nineteen hundred years which have seen in Europe the rise and establishment of the Church is a matter for historical inquiry. Strictly speaking, the way in which such ownership or tenure… …   Catholic encyclopedia

• feudal land tenure — System by which land was held by tenants from lords. In England and France, the king was lord paramount and master of the realm. He granted land to his lords, who granted land to their vassals and so on down to the occupying tenant. Tenures were… …   Universalium

• Native customary rights — to land in Sarawak was a system of land tenure based on adat (native customary laws) that existed prior to British arrival in Sarawak. Native customary rights to land consisted of rights to cultivate the land, rights to the produce of the jungle …   Wikipedia

• Aboriginal title — Protests of the Foreshore and Seabed Act 2004, extinguishing aboriginal title to the foreshore and seabeds in New Zealand Aboriginal title is a common law doctrine that the land rights of indigenous peoples to customary tenure persist after the… …   Wikipedia

• Lord of the Manor — The title of Lord of the Manor arose in the English mediaeval system of Manorialism following the Norman Conquest. The title Lord of the Manor is a titular feudal dignity which is still recognised today. Their holders are entitled to call… …   Wikipedia

• Gavelkind — was a system of land tenure associated chiefly with the county of Kent, but found also in other parts of England. Its inheritance pattern bears resemblance to Salic patrimony and as such might testify in favour of a wider, probably ancient… …   Wikipedia