An investigation into forest ownership and customary land ... - Fern

Tribal land
Certificate
Sovereignty
Statutory law,
national law
Tenure system,
tenure regime
Terra nullius
Title
Torrens system
Town
Warranty deed
a consent to survey a parcel of land within a tribal territory, signed
by tribal authorities and declaring that the parcel is no longer part of
tribal land; used in the Hinterland
supreme political authority of a state exercised over a specific
territory (‘country’); not to be confused with ownership of land
within the territory
laws which are passed by a state-making body or legislature and
which apply nationally. Customary laws may gain the force of
national law by being placed within an enactment
the constructs and procedures by which real property is acquired,
held and disposed of; the system may be determined by statute
(statutory tenure), by agreed precedent (common law) or by
customary practice and rules (customary law) – or by a combination
of these
the convenient colonial notion that indigenous communities did not
own their land, that the land was empty of owners
a right of ownership of property
an Australian system of cadastral registration linking the owner
of a land estate to its geographic location, introduced by the Land
Registration Law 1974 but not applied outside central Monrovia
used in Liberia to refer to village settlements of almost any size
a land transfer deed issued when an already owned parcel is sold,
gifted, etc. Does not require the signature of the President to be legal
but must be probated
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