This guide has been written as an information resource for government officials, community leaders, humanitarian aid workers, judges, lawyers and others whose responsibilities include upholding land and property rights in Uganda. It outlines the main provisions of Uganda’s constitutional and legal framework and the protection these provide to property rights. It briefly outlines the historical background to existing land tenure relations, describes the constitutional provisions relating to land in the 1995 Constitution and sets out the main provisions of the Land Act 1998.

The purpose of this report is to review
and assess Afghanistan's legal framework regulating
social safeguards (national and local laws, regulations,
procedures and policies) with special reference to the law
and practice of compulsory land acquisition, or
expropriation. The overall objective of the report is to
consider how Afghanistan's legal framework would
address social safeguard issues in upcoming World Bank

El artículo expone la problemática acerca de la denominada regulatory takings o regulación expropiatoria, institución jurisprudencial del derecho anglosajón, en virtud de la cual se considera que el Estado hace una expropiación de facto a través de una regulación que reduce o elimina -sustancial o completamente- el valor de la propiedad, y que como consecuencia de dicha regulación debe indemnizar al afectado.

An Act to provide for the compulsory acquisition of lands for public purposes and in connection with housing schemes.