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State Lands and Land Laws: A Hand Book

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Date of publication: 
décembre 2015
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Pages: 
16
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© Law & Society Trust 2015

The state owns over 80% of the land in Sri Lanka. The remainder is owned by private parties. Under the State Lands Encroachments Ordinance, all waste lands, forest lands, unoccupied and uncultivated lands are presumed to belong to the state until the contrary is proved (section 7) and all cinnamon land which have been uninterruptedly possessed by the state for over 30 years are held and deemed to belong to the state (section 6).

Auteurs et éditeurs

Author(s), editor(s), contributor(s): 

Dinushika Dissanayake and Binendri Perera

Publisher(s): 
Law & Society Trust

The Law and Society Trust (LST) is a legal research and advocacy organisation founded in 1982 in Colombo, Sri Lanka by the late Dr. Neelan Tiruchelvam. Our goals are the promotion of legal reforms for access to justice, justiciability of rights, and public accountability

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