MORTGAGE OF LAND AS SECURITY UNDER THE LAND USE ACT 1978 BY DOROTHY E. NELSON** 1. Introduction Land is the very basis of commercial and industrial enterprise in Nigeria. It is the most important factor of production in industry as well as agriculture. Its usefulness and importance cuts across all forms of businesses and professions: Businessmen require land for buildings‚ factories and warehouses; Professionals in practices such as law‚ medicine‚ etc‚ need land to locate their
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Land Registry Land registration is all statutorian (not to study through cases): law is in the statues. The Land Registration Act of 2002 (known as the LRA) changed everything: simplified. Te essence of registration‚ of the title is in that one source: the Register (title). When William conquered he agreed a process in the Doomsday book -> what rights people have to it. So instead of the way it used to be (investigate the deeds‚ solicitors‚ etc.): the Register. (1) The mirror principle
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Methodology Through analysing the question it appeared important to cover the whole topic of land registration in order to understand the ‘Mirror Principle’ and its entrenchment in the English legal system. Relevant books were taken from Tremough Campus’s library and the library of the University of Manchester was also of great help during last my visit to my cousin in Manchester City. The most useful law source was the Law Commission which I accessed through ELE and Westlaw. -------------------------------------------------
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The need to provide for boundary adjustments in a registered title land system by Malcolm M Park* Graduate student Department of Geomatics‚ The University of Melbourne and Ian P Williamson Professor of Surveying and Land Information Department of Geomatics‚ The University of Melbourne ianpw@unimelb.edu.au Abstract The practicalities of a modern land administration system require some means of boundary adjustment (or repair). Of the possible mechanisms it is concluded that an alternative to adverse
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One of my favorite quotes by Aldo Leopold is‚ “We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong‚ we may use it with love and respect.” Aldo Leopold is considered to be many to be the father of wildlife management and as a conservationist‚ forester‚ philosopher‚ educator‚ writer‚ and outdoor enthusiast I can see why. Aldo Leopold touched the lives of people not only while he was living but decades after his death he still continues
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EVOLUTION OF LAND LEGISLATION IN NIGERIA By Oluwatosin O. Obiyomi and Adeyemi S. Ifaturoti Department of Estate Management Obafemi Awolowo University‚ Ile-Ife Nigeria. Email: addyfax02@gmail.com Mobile number: +234 706 270 9658‚ +234 806 420 5023 February 2009. The territory now known as Nigeria comprises of various communities with diverse cultures and disparate customs which guide the ownership and control of land. This is commonly referred to as the customary land tenure law. Nigeria
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INTRODUCTION This essay is about the Tribal Grazing Land Policy (TGLP)‚ which is part of the broader land reform program that was initiated by the post-independence Botswana government to address certain land use problems such as overgrazing and land degradation‚ which posed a challenge to the new government in the 1970s. It is also viewed as an agrarian reform and rural development strategy of commercialisation‚ privatisation and modernisation through reduction in stocking in communal areas
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Introduction Land Economics is dedicated to the study of land use‚ natural resources‚ public utilities‚ housing‚ and urban land issues. ’Land use’ is also often used to refer to the distinct land use types in zoning. Land use is the human use of land. Land use involves the management and modification of natural environment or wilderness into built environment such as fields‚ pastures‚ and settlements. It also has been defined as "the arrangements‚ activities and inputs people undertake in a certain
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The waste Land T.S.Eliot complcted ‘The Waste Land’ in the autumn of 1921‚ and with the constructive suggestions of Ezra Pound about the structure of the poem ‚the present draft of the poem ‚ which was published in 1922‚ has become a classic. It is also‚ more importantly‚ the symbol of a whole age‚ signifying a new kind of poetry and a poetic revolution in modern English Literature and culture. The poem is a masterpiece of innovative poetic design and embodies an entirely new and original poetic
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Land and Law in Colonial India Anand V. Swamy Williams College December 2010 Forthcoming in Debin Ma and Jan Luiten Van Zanden eds. Long-term Economic Change in Eurasian Perspective‚ Stanford University Press. 1 1. Introduction The East India Company’s conquest of various territories in India typically brought one issue to the forefront right away: How would land taxes‚ the principal source of governmental revenue‚ be collected? But taxation was not a thing unto itself; it was
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