Deeds Titles And Changing Concepts Of Land Rights

Author : David Ress
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 115 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2020-12-09
Category : Law
ISBN : 9783030641917

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Deeds, Titles, and Changing Concepts of Land Rights by David Ress Pdf

This book explores the history of public land tenure records, which first began in colonial Massachusetts as English settlers and Native Americans tried to resolve differing ideas about rights to land in the seventeenth century. In South Australia, a similar method of state certification of land ownership arose in the nineteenth century, through Torrens system title registration – a process that would be widely adopted in British and American colonies as a particularly effective way of guaranteeing absolute ('fee simple') ownership over indigenous peoples’ land. This book explores the similarities between these two record systems, highlighting how similar settlement patterns and religious beliefs in both places focused attention on recording land tenure, and illustrating how these record systems encouraged new ways of thinking about rights to and on land.

Author : David Ress
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2023-12-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783031438318

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The Kansas Blue Sky Act of 1911 by David Ress Pdf

This Palgrave Pivot presents the first in-depth study of the pioneering Kansas Blue Sky Act of 1911, the first effort in American financial history to regulate the sale of securities in the US. Though offering a balanced examination of critiques of the legislation as a barrier to individual liberty, interstate commerce, and economic growth, the author challenges the prevailing view of the Kansas Act as a complete anomaly, instead exploring sensitively what ‘blue sky laws’ can tell us about small-town market values during the nineteenth-century. Drawing on contemporary accounts of rural commerce and popular stereotypes about rural society, the author takes a cultural-historical approach to the politics of regulation and government intervention in the economy. Situating the Blue Sky Act in the broader context of Progressive Era reforms, the author demonstrates how distinctive patterns of commerce and finance in the self-contained, miniature economies of mid-continental rural communities were often at odds with the “caveat emptor” (buyer beware) standard of American law and commerce in larger markets. Instead the author explores how paternalistic assumptions about individual investment decisions led to the creation of the Act, yet how it was doomed to failure in the context of emerging national stock markets, changing attitudes that regarded stock primarily as a vehicle for trade and the market boom of the 1920s. The book also explores how the initial acceptance of the Kansas model in other states and its later rejection provides a lens through which to examine the fluidity of notions of individual liberty during this period of fast economic and social change. This book will be of interest to researchers working in American financial history, as well as legal history and securities law.

Author : Folúkẹ́ Adébísí
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2024-04-09
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781529219388

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Decolonisation and Legal Knowledge by Folúkẹ́ Adébísí Pdf

The law is heavily implicated in creating, maintaining, and reproducing racialised hierarchies which bring about and preserve acute global disparities and injustices. This essential book provides an examination of the meanings of decolonisation and explores how this examination can inform teaching, researching, and practising of law. It explores the ways in which the foundations of law are entangled in colonial thought and in its [re]production of ideas of commodification of bodies and space-time. Thus, it is an exploration of the ways in which we can use theories and praxes of decolonisation to produce legal knowledge for flourishing futures.

Author : T. W. Bennett
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Land tenure
ISBN : 0702116750

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Land Ownership by T. W. Bennett Pdf

Author : Fred Harrison
Publisher : Shepheard-Walwyn
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780856833939

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The Traumatised Society by Fred Harrison Pdf

The author was the first to forecast (in 1997) the events that ruptured the global economy in 2008 by applying an analysis that exposes the fault lines in the structure of the market economy. Now, he extends his analysis to the future of the West, to evaluate fears from distinguished commentators who claim that European civilisation is in danger of being eclipsed. He concludes that the West is at a dangerous tipping point and provides empirical and theoretical evidence to warrant such an alarming conclusion. But he also explains why it is not too late to prevent the looming social catastrophe. Attributing the present crisis to a social process of cheating, he develops a synthesis of the social and natural sciences to show how the market system can be reformed. He introduces the concept of organic finance, which prescribes reforms capable of delivering both sustainable growth, with a more equitable distribution of wealth, and respect for other life forms. To explain the persistent failure to resolve protracted social and environmental crises, the author introduces a theory of social trauma. Populations have been destabilised by the coercive loss of land to the point where they have lost their traditional reference points. No longer able to live by the laws of nature, they are forced to conform to laws that consolidate the privileges of those who had cheated them of their birthright: access to nature’s resources. Many pathological consequences flow from this tearing of people from their social and ecological habitats. To recover from this state of trauma, the author argues, people need to use the new tools of communication, such as social media, to regain control over their future destiny through a kind of collective psychosocial therapy. The author challenges the view that the West can climb out of depression by applying the financial measures known as “austerity”. He outlines a new strategy that would restore full employment and reverse the decline in midd

Author : Herman Ogoti Kiriama
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2022-10-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781793646163

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The Legacy of Slavery in Coastal Kenya by Herman Ogoti Kiriama Pdf

To either achieve or resist domination, some postcolonial and post slavery societies appropriate and contest the current memories on slavery. This occurs more often where the sites of slavery are tourist attractions that positively empower the communities through economic benefits, resulting in an emergence of ‘new’ memories of the past and a constant construction and reconstruction of identity. In The Legacy of Slavery in Coastal Kenya: Memory, Identity, and Heritage, Herman Ogoti Kiriama examines how two communities in coastal Kenya, one whose identity is contested by the community members and another one who are seeking recognition, have tried to remember their past and the role that tourism has played in the process of remembering and or forgetting. Kiriama argues that heritage, memory, and identity are fluid and individuals can claim several identities depending on their socio-politico-economic contexts.

Author : Wilhelm Röhl
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 858 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789004131644

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History Of Law In Japan Since 1868 by Wilhelm Röhl Pdf

A careful analysis of Japan's dealings with its legal system through a time of unprecedented change (1868- 1960). A must for scholars of Japanese studies, historians and jurists alike.

Author : Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald,R. M. W. Dixon
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780191635670

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Possession and Ownership by Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald,R. M. W. Dixon Pdf

Possession and Ownership brings together linguists and anthropologists in a series of cross-linguistic explorations of expressions used to denote possession and ownership, concepts central to most if not all the varied cultures and ideologies of humankind. Possessive noun phrases can be broadly divided into three categories - ownership of property, whole-part relations (such as body and plant parts), and blood and affinal kinship relations. As Professor Aikhenvald shows in her extensive opening essay, the same possessive noun or pronoun phrase is used in English and in many other Indo-European languages to express possession of all three kinds - as in 'Ann and her husband Henry live in the castle Henry's father built with his own hands' - but that this is by no means the case in all languages. In some, for example, the grammar expresses the inalienability of consanguineal kinship and sometimes also of treasured or sacred objects. Furthermore the degree to which possession and ownership are conceived as the same (when possession is 100% of the law) differs from one society to another, and this may be reflected in their linguistic expression. Like others in the series this pioneering book will be welcomed equally by linguists and anthropologists.

Author : Liana Ricci
Publisher : Springer
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2015-12-30
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783319271262

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Reinterpreting Sub-Saharan Cities through the Concept of Adaptive Capacity by Liana Ricci Pdf

This book explores whether and how a reinterpretation of Sub-Saharan cities, through the concept of adaptive capacity, could bridge this distance and contribute to a new understanding of the contemporary city. The research contributes to improved knowledge of urban and environmental planning and of the dynamics of development and environmental management in peri-urban areas of Dar es Salaam. This knowledge highlights the limits of certain common generalizations on the character of peri-urban areas. Moreover, the research provides methodological contribution derived from considerations on the strengths and weakness of tools and methods for investigating adaptive capacity and for environmental management, in the city of Dar es Salaam. Finally, it highlights controversial issues and possible research paths related to the relationship between adaptive capacity and urban and environmental planning.

Author : Andrew Harding,Munin Pongsapan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2021-06-17
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781108830874

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Thai Legal History by Andrew Harding,Munin Pongsapan Pdf

The first book to provide a broad coverage of Thai legal history in the English language.

Author : Daniel Biebuyck
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2018-08-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351037648

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African Agrarian Systems by Daniel Biebuyck Pdf

Originally published in 1963 this volume surveys various aspects of the complex relations between rights in land, social organization and economic interests in tropical Africa. The papers - in English and French but with summaries in the other language - analyse case studies illustrating the various basic factors and problems connected with land in Tropical Africa. Indigenous systems of tenure and their adaptation to commercial agriculture, the balance between rights and obligations of groups and individuals, and the authority and duties of chiefs and headmen are discussed in detail for many different areas. Against this background important contributions are made towards the better understanding of problems raised by economic and political development, population increase, migration and scarcity of land.

Author : Klaus Deininger,Clarissa Augustinus,Stig Enemark,Paul Munro-Faure
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2010-10-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780821385814

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Innovations in Land Rights Recognition, Administration, and Governance by Klaus Deininger,Clarissa Augustinus,Stig Enemark,Paul Munro-Faure Pdf

The importance of good land governance to strengthen women s land rights, facilitate land-related investment, transfer land to better uses, use it as collateral, and allow effective decentralization through collection of property taxes has long been recognized. The challenges posed by recent global developments, especially urbanization, increased and more volatile food prices, and climate change have raised the profile of land and the need for countries to have appropriate land policies. However, efforts to improve country-level land governance are often frustrated by technical complexities, institutional fragmentation, vested interests, and lack of a shared vision on how to move towards good land governance and measure progress in concrete settings. Recent initiatives have recognized the important challenges this raises and the need for partners to act in a collaborative and coordinated fashion to address them. The breadth and depth of the papers included in this volume, all of which were presented at the World Bank s Annual Conference on Land Policy and Administration, illustrate the benefits from such collaboration. They are indicative not only of the diversity of issues related to land governance but, more importantly, highlight that, even though the topic is complex and politically challenging, there is a wealth of promising new approaches to improving land governance through innovative technologies, country-wide policy dialogue, and legal and administrative reforms. The publication is based on an on-going partnership between the World Bank, the International Federation of Surveyors, the Global Land Tool Network and the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization provide tools that can help to address land governance in practice and at scale. It is our hope that this volume will be of use to increase awareness of and support to the successful implementation of innovative approaches that can help to not only improve land governance, but also thereby contribute to the well-being of the poorest and the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals.

Author : Pranee Liamputtong
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2014-01-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789400772441

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Contemporary Socio-Cultural and Political Perspectives in Thailand by Pranee Liamputtong Pdf

This volume examines contemporary Thailand. It captures aspects of Thai society that have changed dramatically over the past years and that have turned Thailand into a society that is different from what most people outside the country know and expect. The social transition of Thailand has been marked by economic growth, population restructuring, social and cultural development, political movements, and many reforms including the national health care system. The book covers the social, cultural, and economic changes as well as political situations. It discusses both historical contexts and emerging issues. It includes chapters on social and public health concerns, and on ethnicity, gender, sexuality and social class. Most chapters use information from empirical-based and historical research. They describe real life experiences of the contributors and Thai people who participated in the research.

Author : Robert A. Simons,Rachel M. Malmgren,Garrick Small
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2009-01-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780387779386

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Indigenous Peoples and Real Estate Valuation by Robert A. Simons,Rachel M. Malmgren,Garrick Small Pdf

Sponsored by the American Real Estate Society (ARES), Indigenous Peoples and Real Estate Valuation addresses a wide variety of timely issues relating to property ownership, rights, and use, including: ancestral burial, historical record of occupancy, treaty implementation problems, eminent domain, the effects of large governmental change, financing projects under formal and informal title or deed document systems, exclusive ownership vs. non-exclusive use rights, public land ownership, tribal or family land claims, insurgency and war, legal systems of ownership, prior government expropriation of lands, moral obligation to indigenous peoples, colonial occupation, and common land leases. These issues can also be broadly grouped into topics, such as conflict between indigenous and western property rights, communal land ownership, land transfer by force, legacy issues related to past colonization and apartheid, and metaphysical/indigenous land value.

Author : Andrew McRae
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2002-09-12
Category : History
ISBN : 0521524660

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God Speed the Plough by Andrew McRae Pdf

An interdisciplinary analysis of the history and literature of the land in early modern England.