scholarly journals Territorialities, spatial inequalities and the formalization of land rights in Central Benin

Africa ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 89 (2) ◽  
pp. 329-352
Author(s):  
Philippe Lavigne Delville ◽  
Anne-Claire Moalic
Keyword(s):  
Land Tenure ◽  
Land Rights ◽  
Political Organization ◽  
Rural Land ◽  
Spatial Inequalities ◽  
History Of ◽  
Administrative Change ◽  
Customary Land ◽  
The Village ◽  
Land Policies

AbstractThe formalization of ‘informal’ customary land rights is at the core of current rural land policies in Africa. The dubious impacts of such policies on agricultural production, and the recomposition of land rights and governance they cause, have been studied widely. But their territorial dimensions are hardly acknowledged. Studying the implementation of a rural land rights formalization project in central Benin, this article highlights the links between territorialization and plot-level land rights formalization. It first unpacks the notion of the village and presents a conceptual framework for analysing the superimposition of and contradiction between customary and administrative territories. Using two case studies, it then examines the conflicts that arise during formalization operations and their outcomes in terms of the mapping of land rights and political and administrative change. This article shows how the political organization of the territory and the socio-spatial inequalities resulting from the history of settlement shape the results of plot-level land rights registration (which explains why large parts of village territories have not been registered), and, in turn, how these registration operations lead to new territorialization processes and increase the heterogeneity of land tenure rights within the territory.

A New Era of Customary Property Rights? – Liberia’s Land and Forest Legislation in Light of the Indigenous Right to Self-Determination

2019 ◽  
Vol 52 (4) ◽  
pp. 439-462
Author(s):  
Ricarda Rösch
Keyword(s):  
Property Rights ◽  
Land Tenure ◽  
Land Rights ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Sub Saharan ◽  
Forest Legislation ◽  
Customary Land ◽  
The Right

After the end of Liberia’s civil war in 2003, the country embarked upon the reform of its forest and land legislation. This culminated in the adoption of the 2009 Community Rights Law with Respect to Forest Lands and the 2018 Land Rights Act, which NGOs and donors have described as being amongst the most progressive laws in sub-Saharan Africa with regard to the recognition of customary land tenure. Given these actors commitment to human rights, this article takes the indigenous right to self-determination as a starting point for analysing customary property rights and their implementation in Liberia. This includes the examination of the Liberian concept of the 1) recognition and nature of customary land rights, 2) customary ownership of natural resources, 3) jurisdiction over customary land, 4) the prohibition of forcible removal, and 5) the right to free, prior and informed consent.

Fractured Governance and Local Frictions: The Exclusionary Nature of a Clandestine Land Market in Southern Zambia

Africa ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 80 (1) ◽  
pp. 36-55 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicholas J. Sitko
Keyword(s):  
Land Tenure ◽  
Land Rights ◽  
Land Market ◽  
Land Markets ◽  
Private Land ◽  
Land Administration ◽  
The Social ◽  
Customary Land ◽  
Rural Zambia

This article explores the ways in which efforts to expand private land tenure, coupled with the continued centrality of customary land administration in Zambia, produce a fractured system of land governance in which localized markets for land emerge but are forced to operate in a clandestine manner. Using ethnographic and archival data sources, I argue that despite the historical and contemporary relationship between land rights and economic ‘development’, the clandestine nature of land markets in rural Zambia tends to (re)produce many of the social ills that ‘development’ seeks to resolve. Using a case study of a clandestine market for land in a Tonga-speaking region of southern Zambia, this article shows how these markets undermine women's rights to land, while allowing for the consolidation of wealth and power in the hands of a few.

scholarly journals ‘Some banglyng about the customes’: Popular Memory and the Experience of Defeat in a Sussex Village, 1549–1640

Rural History ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-14 ◽  
Author(s):  
ANDY WOOD
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Social History ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Social Conflict ◽  
Land Rights ◽  
Social Structures ◽  
Popular Memory ◽  
History Of ◽  
Witness Statements ◽  
The Village

AbstractThis article deploys a body of remarkably detailed witness statements to interrogate the nature of popular memory and social conflict in Petworth, Sussex. These depositions are located in two specific contexts: a struggle between the tenants of Petworth and the ninth earl of Northumberland (1591 – 1608) and the broader pattern of resistance and negotiation in the village between the ‘commotion time’ of 1549 and the calling of the Short Parliament. The essay presents a micro-history of local struggles over land, rights and resources and the findings open up questions within the recent historiography of early modern social relations, undermining the notion that authority was flexibly negotiated between ruler and ruled. Instead, it locates negotiation within social structures that gave a powerful advantage to the gentry and nobility. In this respect, the essay builds upon the return in social history to questions of economic inequality and imbalances of political agency.

Book Reviews: Society: Problems and Methods of Study, Philosophy, Politics and Society (Second Series), Sociology: A Guide to Problems and Literature, A Short History of Sociology, The Last Refuge—a Survey of Residential Institutions and Homes for the Aged in England and Wales, The Evolution of a Community, New Communities in Britain, The Human Factor in Changing Africa, Social Control in an African Society. A Study of the Arusha: Agricultural Masai of Northern Tanganyika, Industrialism and Industrial Man, Home, School and Work, Research in Family Planning, Agricultural Sociology, Einführung in die Agrarsoziologie, Rural Land Tenure in the United States, a Socio-Economic Approach to Problems, Programs, and Trends, Special Study on Social Advancement in Non-Self Governing Territories, Analysis of Information Submitted to the Secretary General (1957–1959), Industrialism and Industrial Man, Home, School and Work, Research in Family Planning, Agricultural Sociology, Einführung in die Agrarsoziologie, Rural Land Tenure in the United States, a Socio-Economic Approach to Problems, Programs, and Trends

1963 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 247-273
Author(s):  
George C. Homans ◽  
Peter Winch ◽  
D. C. Marsh ◽  
John Rex ◽  
T. E. Chester ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Family Planning ◽  
Land Tenure ◽  
The United States ◽  
Home School ◽  
Economic Approach ◽  
Rural Land ◽  
History Of ◽  
Residential Institutions

Changing Property-Rights Regimes: A Study of Rural Land Tenure in China

2017 ◽  
Vol 232 ◽  
pp. 1026-1049 ◽  
Author(s):  
Loren Brandt ◽  
Susan H. Whiting ◽  
Linxiu Zhang ◽  
Tonglong Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Property Rights ◽  
Land Tenure ◽  
Rural Households ◽  
Land Rights ◽  
Rural Land ◽  
Market Mechanisms ◽  
Pilot Survey ◽  
Bundle Of Rights ◽  
Over Time

AbstractThrough two rounds of land contracting, rural households have been allocated a bundle of rights in land. We observe significant differences across villages in the amount of land to which villagers retain a claim and the institutional mechanisms governing the exchange of land rights. This study reveals the perpetuation and expansion of non-market mechanisms accruing to the benefit of village cadres and state officials and only limited emergence of market mechanisms in which households are primary beneficiaries. It identifies factors in economic, political and legal domains that incentivize and enable state officials and local cadres to capture returns from use of land. Relatedly, the study finds differences in conflict over property-rights regimes. Drawing on a pilot survey carried out by the authors in November of 2011 in Shaanxi and Jiangsu provinces (192 households in 24 villages), this paper seeks to explain heterogeneity and change in property-rights regimes over time and across space.

scholarly journals TINJAUAN HUKUM PELEPASAN TANAH ULAYAT

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 108-119
Author(s):  
Happy Trizna Wijaya
Keyword(s):  
Land Tenure ◽  
Land Rights ◽  
Customary Law ◽  
Land Acquisition ◽  
The Public ◽  
Personal Rights ◽  
Presidential Decree ◽  
The Government ◽  
Customary Land ◽  
Ownership Rights

Since September 24, 1960 Law No. 5/1960 was stipulated regarding Basic Regulations on Agrarian Principles or often referred to as the Basic Agrarian Law (UUPA), adopting legal unification and based on customary law. Customary land law is original law, has a unique characteristic, where individual rights to land are personal rights but in it contain togetherness. Land controlled by customary law communities is known as ulayat rights. Although customary law is the basis of the LoGA, problems with ownership rights to customary land often occur due to unclear land boundaries and customary land tenure by the government without any release of land. The results of this study revealed that the procedure for controlling customary land by the local government through the mechanism of land acquisition as stipulated in Permendagri No. 15 of 1975 provides more opportunities for the Government to control land rights, while the owner / holder of land rights has a very weak position because many rights to land are neglected so that it violates the human rights of land rights holders. With the issuance of Presidential Decree No. 55 of 1993 concerning Land Procurement for the Implementation of Development for the Public Interest in lieu of Permendagri No. 15 of 1975, which provides a protection to holders of land rights to be able to defend their rights. This is also the case with Perpres No. 36 of 2005 Jo Perpres No. 65 of 2006 issued as a substitute for Presidential Decree No. 55 of 1993, far more provide protection to the community to defend their rights, while the government is increasingly limited in obtaining land. So Perpres No. 65 of 2006 provides a guarantee of legal certainty to holders of land rights to be able to defend their rights.Sejak 24 September 1960 ditetapkan Undang-undang Nomor 5 Tahun 1960 tentang Peraturan Dasar Pokok-pokok Agraria atau sering disebut Undang-undang Pokok Agraria (UUPA), menganut unifikasi hukum dan berdasarkan hukum adat. Hukum tanah adat merupakan hukum asli, mempunyai sifat yang khas, dimana hak-hak perorangan atas tanah merupakan hak pribadi akan tetapi didalamnya mengandung unsur kebersamaan. Tanah-tanah yang dikuasai oleh masyarakat hukum adat dikenal dengan sebutan hak ulayat. Walaupun hukum adat merupakan dasar dari UUPA tetapi permasalahan terhadap hak kepemilikan atas tanah adat seringkali terjadi karena penentuan batas tanah hak ulayat yang tidak jelas, maupun karena penguasaan hak atas tanah adat oleh pemerintah tanpa ada pelepasan tanah. Hasil penelitian ini mengungkapkan bahwa Prosedur penguasaan tanah ulayat oleh Pemda melalui mekanisme pembebasan tanah yang tertuang dalam Permendagri No. 15 Tahun 1975 lebih memberikan kesempatan kepada pihak Pemerintah untuk menguasai hak atas tanah, sedangkan pemilik/pemegang hak atas tanah mempunyai kedudukan yang sangat lemah karena banyak hak atas tanah yang diabaikan sehingga sangat melanggar hak asasi pemegang hak atas tanah. Dengan diterbitkannya Kepres No. 55 Tahun 1993 mengenai Pengadaan Tanah Bagi Pelaksanaan Pembangunan Untuk Kepentingan Umum sebagai pengganti Permendagri No. 15 Tahun 1975, yang memberikan suatu perlindungan kepada pemegang hak atas tanah untuk dapat mempertahankan haknya. Begitu juga halnya dengan Perpres No. 36 Tahun 2005 Jo Perpres No. 65 Tahun 2006 yang dikeluarkan sebagai pengganti Kepres No. 55 Tahun 1993, jauh lebih memberikan perlindungan kepada pihak masyarakat untuk membela haknya, sedangkan pihak pemerintah semakin terbatas dalam memperoleh tanah. Sehingga Perpres No. 65 Tahun 2006 memberikan suatu jaminan kepastian hukum kepada pemegang hak atas tanah untuk dapat mempertahankan haknya.

scholarly journals Reorientasi Asas Itikad Baik/Kebenaran Sebagai Dasar Kepemilikan Hak Atas Tanah

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 102
Author(s):  
Supriyadi Supriyadi
Keyword(s):  
Legal Protection ◽  
Land Rights ◽  
Land Ownership ◽  
Civil Code ◽  
Good Faith ◽  
Basic Question ◽  
Original Owner ◽  
Legal Position ◽  
Customary Land ◽  
The Village

<div><p>Perpindahan hak terhadap kepemilikan tanah terpancang pada aturan bahwa seseorang tak dapat mengalihkan sesuatu melebihi dari apa yang dimilikinya hal ini  berhadapan dengan asas ‘<em>bona fides’</em> (itikad baik) yang melindungi pembeli beritikad baik. Posisi hukumnya  menempatkan dua belah pihak yang pada dasarnya tidak bersalah untuk saling berhadapan di pengadilan dan meminta untuk dimenangkan, akibat ulah pihak lain yang mungkin beritikad buruk. Pertanyaan mendasarnya, dalam hal ini pihak manakah yang seharusnya mendapatkan perlindungan hukum, apakah pemegang hak atas tanah  atau  pembeli yang mengaku beritikad baik? Alasan yang paling banyak digunakan adalah telah dilakukannya jual beli melalui notaris/PPAT  Perlindungan terhadap pembeli beritikad baik adalah sebuah perkecualian, yaitu ketika pembeli tidak dapat menduga adanya suatu kekeliruan dalam peralihan hak dan kekeliruan itu terjadi akibat kesalahan pemilik sendiri (toedoenbeginsel). Jika kemudian timbul sengketa, maka harus dipertimbangkan apakah terjadinya peralihan yang tidak sah itu lebih disebabkan oleh kesalahan pembeli yang tidak mencermati asal usul tanah yang dibelinya, atau kesalahan pemilik asal yang tidak menjaga haknya dengan baik. UUPA dan PP No. 24/1997 tidak menjelaskan pengertian ‘itikad baik’. Penegasan ini disimpulkan dari ketentuan KUHPerdata, literatur, dan putusan-putusan. Dalam hal ini, standar yang seharusnya digunakan bukan hanya tahu atau tidaknya pembeli berdasarkan pengakuannya sendiri (subyektif), namun juga apakah pembeli telah melakukan upaya untuk mencari tahu (obyektif), baik secara formil (dengan melakukan transaksi di depan PPAT, atau Kepala Desa jika transaksinya adalah tanah adat), maupun secara materiil</p><p> <em>The transfer of rights to land ownership is fixed on the rule that a person cannot transfer something more than what he has. This is faced with the principle of 'bona fides' (good faith) which protects buyers with good intentions. Its legal position places two basically innocent parties to face each other in court and ask to be won, due to the actions of other parties who may have bad intentions. The basic question is, in this case which party should get legal protection, are the holders of land rights or buyers who claim good intentions? The most widely used reason is the sale and purchase through a notary / PPAT Protection of buyers with good intentions is an exception, that is when the buyer cannot predict the existence of an error in the transfer of rights and errors due to the owner's own fault (toedoenbeginsel). If a dispute arises, then it must be considered whether the illegitimate transition is caused more by the fault of the buyer who did not observe the origin of the land he bought, or the fault of the original owner who did not properly safeguard his rights. UUPA and PP No. 24/1997 does not explain the meaning of 'good faith'. This affirmation is concluded from the provisions of the Civil Code, literature, and decisions. In this case, the standard that should be used is not only whether or not the buyer is based on his own (subjective) recognition, but also whether the buyer has made an effort to find out (objectively), both formally (by conducting transactions before PPAT, or the Village Head if the transaction is customary land), and materially</em><em>.</em></p></div>

scholarly journals Kondisi Aktual Penguasaan Tanah Ulayat Di Maluku: Telaah Terhadap Gagasan Pendaftaran Tanahnya

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 222-229
Author(s):  
Oloan Sitorus
Keyword(s):  
Land Tenure ◽  
Land Rights ◽  
Public Authority ◽  
Land Registration ◽  
Customary Land ◽  
Land Register ◽  
Private Right

Abstract: What land registration concept is suitable for Tanah Ulayat (Petuanan Land)? This question is relevant to be answered when the actual conditions of tenurial of the Petuanan Land have undergone an individualization process. The above question is answered by applying the concept of land registration to the actual conditions of customary land tenure. For Petuanan Land which is still intact containing public authority and private right, the proper concept of land registration is only limited to the Land Register. Furthermor, Petuanan Land that has undergone the process of individualization into Tanah Marga or Soa and individual land, the concept of land registration can be carried out up to the issuance of certificates as proof of land rights. Thus, the portion of Petuanan Land that can be the object of Complete Systematic Land Registration in Maluku Province is Petuanan Land that has undergone a process of individualization, can be land that is possessed or owned  by traditional village (although very rare), clan or soa. Intisari: Pendaftaran Tanah yang bagaimanakah yang tepat bagi Tanah Ulayat (Tanah Petuanan) di Maluku? Pertanyaan ini dipandang relevan untuk dijawab ketika kondisi aktual penguasaan Tanah Ulayat (Tanah Petuanan) itu sudah mengalami proses individualisasi. Pertanyaan di atas dijawab dengan cara menerapkan konsep pendaftaran tanah terhadap kondisi aktual penguasaan tanah ulayat. Bagi Tanah Petuanan yang masih utuh berisi kewenangan publik dan privat, konsep pendaftaran tanah yang tepat hanyalah sebatas Daftar Tanah. Selanjutnya, Tanah Petuanan yang sudah mengalami proses individualisasi menjadi Tanah Marga atau Soa dan Tanah Individual, maka konsep pendaftaran tanah dapat dilakukan sampai pada penerbitan sertipikat sebagai bukti hak atas tanah. Dengan demikian, bagian dari Tanah Petuanan yang dapat menjadi objek Pendaftaran Tanah Sistematik Lengkap di Provinsi Maluku adalah Tanah Petuanan yang sudah mengalami proses individualisasi, dapat berupa tanah yang dikuasai oleh negeri (meskipun sangat jarang), tanah yang dikuasai marga atau soa, dan tanah yang dikuasai oleh perorangan.

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