seizure of land

  • 1Land and Property Laws in Israel — refers to the legal framework governing land and property issues in Israel. Following its establishment, Israel designed a system of law that legitimized both a continuation and a consolidation of the nationalisation of land and property, a… …

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  • 2seizure — sei‧zure [ˈsiːʒə ǁ ər] noun [countable, uncountable] formal 1. LAW the act of taking goods or property because they are illegal, or because the owner has not paid a debt: • An authority may threaten seizure of goods or disconnection of vital… …

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  • 3Land reform — Land reforms (also agrarian reform, though that can have a broader meaning) is an often controversial alteration in the societal arrangements whereby government administers possession and use of land. Land reform may consist of a government… …

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  • 4Land reform in Zimbabwe — began after the signing of the Lancaster House Agreement in 1979 in an effort to more equitably distribute land between the historically disenfranchised blacks and the minority whites who ruled Zimbabwe from 1923 to 1979. The government s land… …

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  • 5Israeli land and property laws — Land and property laws in Israel provide a legal framework which governs land and property issues in Israel. At its establishment, Israel continued to apply the pre existing Ottoman and British land law. Over time, these laws were amended or… …

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  • 6seizure — [[t]si͟ːʒə(r)[/t]] seizures 1) N COUNT If someone has a seizure, they have a sudden violent attack of an illness, especially one that affects their heart or brain. ...a mild cardiac seizure... I was prescribed drugs to control seizures. 2) N… …

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  • 7seizure — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ biggest, largest ▪ drug (AmE), drugs (BrE) ▪ cocaine, heroin, etc. ▪ …

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  • 8expropriation of land — land confiscation, seizure of land, land appropriation …

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  • 9Land warrant — Warrant War rant, n. [OE. warant, OF. warant a warrant, a defender, protector, F. garant, originally a p. pr. pf German origin, fr. OHG. wer[=e]n to grant, warrant, G. gew[ a]hren; akin to OFries. wera. Cf. {Guarantee}.] [1913 Webster] 1. That… …

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  • 102007 Iranian seizure of Royal Navy personnel — Map of the Persian Gulf. Iranian military personnel seized 15 Royal Navy personnel during 2007 and held them for 13 days. On 23 March 2007, 15 British Royal Navy personnel, from HMS Cornwall, searching a merchant vessel were surrounded by the… …

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