An investigation into forest ownership and customary land ... - Fern
An investigation into forest ownership and customary land ... - Fern
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Glossary<br />
Aborigines<br />
Aborigines L<strong>and</strong><br />
Deeds<br />
Allodial title<br />
term used in Liberia to refer to indigenous Africans living in the<br />
interior<br />
documents issued to ‘natives’ during the first half of the 20th century<br />
either allocating mainly quarter acre town deeds to civilised ‘natives’<br />
or later deeds acknowledging the right <strong>and</strong> title of tribes in the<br />
Hinterl<strong>and</strong><br />
direct <strong>ownership</strong> of l<strong>and</strong> with no higher person or entity holding<br />
ultimate title in the l<strong>and</strong><br />
Cadastral registration a modern form of l<strong>and</strong> rights registration which identifies the<br />
parcel in map coordinates enabling it to be easily traced; a number<br />
unique to that parcel is also given against which all deeds (e.g. sale,<br />
inheritance) are logged<br />
Commonhold used here to describe shared legal entitlement of a parcel of l<strong>and</strong><br />
Common law nationally applicable rules <strong>and</strong> principles that have evolved through<br />
court decisions rather than from enactments<br />
Communal domain (common property, communal l<strong>and</strong>, territory) a discrete area of<br />
l<strong>and</strong> over which a community is acknowledged by neighbouring<br />
communities as having <strong>ownership</strong> <strong>and</strong> jurisdiction<br />
Communal tenure shared holding of l<strong>and</strong>, characteristic of indigenous or <strong>customary</strong><br />
systems of tenure<br />
Community a social group such as a village, village cluster or chiefdom normally<br />
having its own discrete territory<br />
Customary l<strong>and</strong><br />
tenure<br />
Customary law<br />
Derivative rights<br />
Domain<br />
Estate<br />
Fee simple<br />
Forest concession<br />
Hinterl<strong>and</strong><br />
a pre-state system of arranging <strong>ownership</strong> <strong>and</strong> rights of access to<br />
l<strong>and</strong><br />
rules made <strong>and</strong> followed by a community <strong>and</strong> which may meet<br />
punishment if broken; like national laws they are periodically<br />
amended to meet new circumstances<br />
interests in l<strong>and</strong> which are less than <strong>ownership</strong>, including use rights<br />
(usufructs) <strong>and</strong> seasonal access rights<br />
the l<strong>and</strong> area or territory of a community<br />
a parcel or tract of l<strong>and</strong><br />
the most complete form of l<strong>and</strong> <strong>ownership</strong> in <strong>An</strong>glo-American law<br />
<strong>and</strong> often imported with colonialism; in English law referred to as<br />
freehold<br />
a grant of rights to log a large area of <strong>forest</strong> subject to agreed<br />
practices <strong>and</strong> conditions<br />
the interior larger half of modern Liberia formally incorporated <strong>into</strong><br />
Liberia in the 1920s<br />
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