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The Invisible Line : Land Reform, Land Tenure Security and Land Registration.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Dekker, Henri A. L.
Otros Autores: Dixon-Gough, Mr. Robert W., Mansberger, Dr. Reinfried
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Florence : Taylor and Francis, 2003.
Colección:International land management series.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Half Title
  • Dedication
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Table of Contents
  • Figures and Tables
  • 1 INVISIBLE LINES
  • 1.1 The Nature of Invisible Lines
  • 1.1.1 Invisibility Made Visible
  • 1.1.2 Invisible Features
  • 1.1.3 Invisible Lines Lost and Found
  • 1.2 Where Do You Live?
  • 1.2.1 The 'Written' Line
  • 1.2.2 Hunger and Land Distribution
  • 1.2.3 Redrawing Invisible Lines
  • 1.2.4 Land Reform Programs
  • 1.2.5 Poverty, Hunger and Invisible Lines
  • 1.2.4 Land Reform Programs
  • 1.3 Invisible Lines as a Tool to Battle Hunger
  • 1.3.1 Hunger and Politics
  • 1.3.2 State Policies
  • 1.3.3 Sustainable Development
  • 1.4 Why Create (More) Invisible Lines?
  • 1.4.1 Land, Food and Shelter
  • 1.4.2 Access to Land
  • 1.4.3 Concern for the Environment
  • 1.4.4 An Impulse to Agricultural Production
  • 1.4.5 No Standard Solution
  • 1.5 Why This Book?
  • 1.5.1 A Technological Approach
  • Legal Engineering and Institution Building
  • 1.5.2 Private Ownership and Common Lands
  • 1.5.3 The Aim of this Book
  • 2 LAND AND RIGHTS TO LAND
  • 2.1 Land
  • 2.1.1 What is Land?
  • 2.1.2 The Authority over Land
  • 2.1.3 Elasticity of Land
  • 2.2 Rights to Land
  • 2.2.1 Protection of Rights to Land
  • 2.2.2 Rights to Land may be Non-Transferable
  • 2.3 Significance of Rights to Land
  • 2.3.1 Land Parcels
  • 2.3.2 A New Approach to Rights to Land
  • 3 PROPERTY
  • 3.1 Property, Rights to Property, and Property Regime
  • 3.1.1 Property Rights
  • 3.1.2 Property Regime
  • 3.2 The Various Functions of Property
  • 3.2.1 The Social Significance of Property
  • 3.2.2 Property as a Social Relationship
  • 3.3 Landed Property
  • 3.3.1 Land and Prosperity
  • 3.3.2 Urbanization
  • 3.3.3 Industrialization
  • 3.3.4 Continued Importance of Landed Property
  • 3.4 Property, Market Economy, and Economic Development
  • 3.4.1 The Standard Model.
  • 3.4.2 Market Economy and Landed Property
  • 4 LAND TENURE
  • 4.1 Land Tenure and Holding Rights to Land
  • 4.1.1 Holding Rights to Land
  • 4.1.2 Evolution in The Holding of Rights to Land
  • 4.1.3 What, Who, How, Where, and When
  • 4.1.4 Absolute or Relative Rights to Land
  • 4.1.5 Rural and Urban Land
  • 4.1.6 Land Tenure Perceptions
  • 4.1.7 Change of Land Tenure Regimes
  • 4.1.8 Land Tenure and the Role of the State
  • 4.2 Land Tenure (In- )Security
  • 4.2.1 Tenure (In- )Security
  • 4.2.2 Change in Tenure Security
  • 4.2.3 Various Aspects of Security of Land Tenure
  • 4.3 Improving Land Tenure Security
  • 4.3.1 Looking for Improvement of Land Tenure Security
  • 4.3.2 Documented Land Tenure
  • 4.3.3 Legal Framework for New Land Tenure Security
  • 4.4 Common Lands
  • 4.4.1 The Essence of Common Land
  • 4.4.2 From Common Land to Private Land?
  • 4.4.3 The African Challenge for Legal Engineering
  • 4.5 Re-Adjusting the Approach Toward Land Tenure
  • 4.5.1 Resilience and Revival of Customary or Indigenous Property Regimes
  • 4.5.2 Renewed Attention for Communal and Customary Land Tenure
  • 4.6 Legal Pluralism
  • 4.6.1 More than one Legal System
  • 4.6.2 Customary Tenure Versus Statutory Tenure
  • 4.6 Legal Pluralism
  • 4.6.1 More than one Legal System
  • 4.6.2 Customary Tenure Versus Statutory Tenure
  • 4.7 Land, Vegetation, Soil and Air
  • A Different Tenure Regime
  • 4.7.1 Various Concepts and Tenure Objects
  • 4.7.2 Various Property Regimes
  • 5 LAND REFORM
  • 5.1 Non-Evolutionary Change of Land Tenure
  • 5.1.1 Land Reform and Agrarian Reform
  • 5.1.2 No Standard Land Reform Formula
  • 5.1.3 Underestimated Requirements for Successful Land Reform
  • 5.2 Motives for Land Reform
  • 5.2.1 Political Reasons for Land Reform
  • 5.2.2 Economic Growth Paradigm
  • 5.2.3 Structuralism, Dependency and Liberation Theology
  • 5.2.4 Land Reform and the Environment.
  • 5.3 Land Reform in Several Regions of the World
  • 5.3.1 Latin-American Countries
  • 5.3.2 Land Reform in Africa
  • 5.3.3 Land Reform under Communist Rule
  • 5.3.4 Land Reform Activities in Former Communist Countries
  • 5.3.5 Land Reform in South East Asia
  • 5.4 Land Reform Results and Expectations
  • 5.4.1 Land Reform and Economic Development
  • 5.4.2 Mixed Successes of Land Reforms
  • 5.4.3 Evaluating Results of Land Reform
  • 5.4.4 Decision-Making and Land Reform
  • 5.5 Future of Land Reform
  • 5.5.1 Land Reform for What?
  • 5.5.2 Land
  • An Important Vehicle for Rural Development
  • 5.5.3 Emphasis on Local Involvement
  • 5.5.4 Introduction of Land Tax
  • 5.5.5 Considerations about Land Reform to Change Land Tenure
  • 5.5.6 Land Reform and Land Consolidation
  • 5.5.7 Land Reform and Land Registration
  • 6 LAND REGISTRATION
  • 6.1 Land Registration Systems
  • A Concise Historical Introduction
  • 6.1.1 Roots of Land Registration Systems
  • 6.1.2 Implementation of a Land Registration
  • 6.1.3 Land Law and Religion
  • 6.1.4 Land Registration and Commerce
  • 6.1.5 Families of Law
  • 6.1.6 Land Rights in Different Law Families
  • 6.1.7 Peculiar Terms Used in Land Registration
  • 6.1.8 'Absolute' Land Rights
  • 6.1.9 Land Administration and Land Registration
  • 6.2 Purpose of Land Registration
  • 6.2.1 Land Registration as a Tool
  • 6.2.2 Various Functions and Differences in Data Accuracy
  • 6.3 Non-Documented Rights to Land
  • 6.3.1 Customary Rights to Land
  • 6.3.2 Considerations for Documented Land Rights
  • 6.3.3 Cause of Dual Legal Systems
  • 6.3.4 A Drive to Register Non-Documented Rights to Land
  • 6.4 Evolution of Documented Rights to Land
  • 6.4.1 Monuments and Curses
  • 6.4.2 Clay Tables
  • 6.4.3 Levying Land Tax
  • 6.4.4 Data on 'Land'
  • 6.4.5 Transfers of Rights to Land
  • 6.4.6 Mortgages.
  • 6.5 Positive and Negative Land Registration Systems
  • 6.5.1 A Comparative Review
  • 6.5.2 The Position of the Registrar
  • 6.6 Registration Resulting in Title Certificates
  • 6.6.1 The 'Torrens' System
  • 6.6.2 Introduction of Title Registration in England and Wales
  • 6.6.3 Some Remarks about Registration of Titles
  • 6.7 Negative Systems of Land Registration
  • 6.7.1 Land Registrations Based on Deeds as Evidence
  • 6.7.2 Complications in the Registration of Deeds
  • 6.7.3 Conversion of Land Registrations
  • 6.7.4 The Specific Situation in Former Communist Countries
  • 6.8 Cadastre
  • 6.8.1 The Origin of Cadastres
  • 6.8.2 Use of the Term Cadastre
  • 6.9 Cadastral Map and Cadastral Survey
  • 6.9.1 Cadastral Maps and Topographical Maps
  • 6.9.2 Linking the Cadastral Maps and the Registers
  • 7. SPECIFIC ASPECTS OF LAND REGISTRATION
  • 7.1 Title Insurance
  • 7.1.1 An Extraordinary System of Insurance
  • 7.1.2 Title Companies
  • 7.1.3 Indemnification by Title Insurance
  • 7.2 Main Characteristics of Land Registration
  • 7.2.1 Documents and Customs
  • 7.2.2 Titles or Deeds
  • 7.2.3 What is the Purpose?
  • 7.3 Evolution in Land Registration and Cadastre
  • 7.3.1 Some Examples
  • 7.3.2 Various Cadastral Systems and their Legal Differences
  • 7.3.3 Land Registration Systems in the USA
  • 7.3.4 Parcel Identifiers
  • 7.3.5 Parcel Based Registration of Deeds
  • 7.4 Integrity of Land Data
  • 7.4.1 Computerization
  • 7.4.2 Land Data Exchange
  • 7.4.3 A Multi-Layer Approach
  • 7.5 Boundaries
  • 7.5.1 Cadastral Boundaries and Topographical Features
  • 7.5.2 Registered, Guaranteed, Fixed, and General Boundaries
  • Bibliography
  • Glossary
  • Index
  • Annex A.