This Law amends Law No. 5403 on Soil Preservation and Land Utilization with several minor changes. This Law adds Articles 8A to 8K regarding agricultural land sizes and transfer of inherited agricultural lands. This Law repeals the last sentence of Paragraph 5 of Article 13 of Law No. 3083 on land reform regarding rearrangement of land in irrigated areas.

Amends: Law No. 5403 on Soil Preservation and Land Utilization. (2005-07-03)
Amends: Law No. 3083 on land reform regarding rearrangement of land in irrigated areas. (1984-11-22)

This Law provides with respect to inheritance and transfer of small estates (as defined). and provides that the Administration of Estate Law, Probate rules, or any other law or rules of court under which grant of Letters of Administration is required for payment of money from the estate of deceased persons shall cease to apply to small estates except as provided in this Law.

This Law stipulates that notwithstanding any native law or custom to the contrary a female person has the right to acquire and own property and shall share in the intestate estate of her deceased father, mother or husband in accordance with the provisions of this Law. Females may be the administrator or one of the administrators of her fathers, mothers or husbands estate. The Law also grants other rights to women and provides protection of women from degrading treatment and provides with respect to alienation of property. or interest in the matrimonial home.

The Nyanga and Matopos Estates shall vest in the President and, subject to this Act, shall be held in trust by him for the people of Zimbabwe. The Trustee may, subject to section 5 and of sections 4 and 6, in addition to using the Estates in the manner set out in the Will of Cecil John Rhodes, use portions of the Estates for agricultural purposes, including forestry, fisheries and the conservation or management of wild life and other purposes set out in section 5. The Trustee may grant such servitudes in respect of any portion of the Estates pursuant to section 7.

This Act concerns the administration of estates, the ownership of which is not clearly defined of has some legal impediments.Administration shall be carried out by public officers appointed under this Act (i.e. the Master of the High Court, the Deputy Master and Assistant Masters). The Act also concerns the administration of estates subject to customary law.

This Act concerns the abolition on certain restrictions concerning trusts and provides rules for the creation in Nauru of a trust in perpetuity or for any lesser duration. This Act shall not apply to any settlement, disposition or trust of any land or of any interest in any land where such land is situated in Nauru. The Act also concerns grant of administration of a foreign will or estate. Executors of a foreign will or administrators of a foreign estate shall be a trustee corporation.

La presente Resolución aprueba el Reglamento de la Ley de de propiedad, que tiene por objeto desarrollar los principios, objetivos y disposiciones previstas en la Ley a efecto de facilitar su aplicación y alcanzar su cumplimiento.

Implementa: Decreto Nº 82/04 - Ley de propiedad. (2004-06-15)

The President decrees that the plots of land and the property connected with them must be considered real estate. The real estate contracts are regulated by Civil Code in accordance with Land, Forestry, Environmental, other specific Legislative Acts and this Decree. Physical And juridical persons, that own plots of land, have the right to sell, to bequeath, to give as a gift, to mortgage, to lease, to exchange and to render them as a share to the-joint stock companies. Each landowner is provided with land certificate that must be registered into land cadastre.

This Act, among other things, amends the Administration of Estates Act, 1965 by inserting a new section which empowers the Minister to vest, after consultation with the Master and the Chief of lower courts, certain powers (any powers or functions vested in or assigned to the Master by the principal Act) in magistrates and to specify conditions to which the exercise of such powers shall be subject.

Amends: Administration of Estates Act, 1965. (1965)

This Act amends the National Land Code Act, 1965.Amendments include: insertion of new definitions in section 5; minor word changes and minor changes in the provisions in sections 5b, 14, 62, 80, 81, 92d, 124, 136, 140, 141, 141a, 142, 147, 204g, 254, 264a, 375, 399, 412, 426, 429a and 429b; insertion of a new Part One (C) on modifications to facilitate the implementation of the electronic land administration system; insertion of a new section 143a on powers of the State Authority in relation to applications for the partition of land subject to the agriculture category; and minor changes to

The Mayor orders to introduce the following amendments and addenda: 1) To give a new wording to paragraph 1.2 of the original document that reads as follows: "Physical persons that have been allotted the plots of land on condit ions of life-long hereditary property are receive them free-of-charge irrespecti vely of size ceiling of the plots of land." and 2) To repeal paragraph 3 of the original document.

These Regulations amend the Regulations in terms of the Deeds Registries Act by substituting regulation 16 and by amending provisions concerning, among other things, the description of land, immovable property in partnership deeds, land transferred pursuant to a will, partition in case of inheritance, servitudes and leases.

Amends: Regulations in terms of the Deeds Registries Act. (1999-02-19)