This Chapter provide for the setting up of a Fund for the additional financial compensation of persons who have suffered economically from expropriation for the benefit of the United States of America in the past and have not been sufficiently compensated before. The Fund shall grant loans, or…

There is created the "Land Claimants Small Loan Revolving Fund" to grant loans to those persons who are eligible to bring proceedings for additional compensation under the provisions of section 204 of the Omnibus Territories Act of 1977 for additional compensation for land acquired by…

This Chapter defines certain rights and owners of real property and tenants for life. The owner of a life estate may use the land in the same manner as the owner of a fee simple, except that he or she must do no act to the injury of the inheritance. Sections 2 and 3 of Article 1 define property…

This Chapter provides for various matters relative to trusts in real property. Trusts shall be in writing in accordance with section 1. Sections 2 and 3 concern the protection of the purchaser of a trust. Section 4 concerns a trust given as security. Other provisions of this Act concern…

This Act establishes a Provisional Commission for the Zoning of Ancestral Lands, requires the Commission to complete a comprehensive zoning plan for all properties and parcels under the jurisdiction of the Guam Ancestral Lands Commission in accordance with provisions this Act and prescribes…

This Chapter grants the right to civil action to: (a) any person whose property is injuriously affected, or whose personal enjoyment is lessened by a nuisance, as the same is defined in 20 GCA; (b) the Attorney General in the name of the government of Guam to abate a public nuisance as the same…

This Chapter provides in general for matters relating to liens: definition of liens; creation of liens; effect of liens; priority of liens; redemption from liens; and extinction of liens. A lien is a charge imposed in some mode other than by a transfer in trust upon specific property by which it…

This Chapter defines the duties of tenant for life, coterminous owners, two or more persons are associated by agreement in the use of an asset belonging to a property, etc. The owner of a life Estate shall be required to carry out duties defines in section 1 with respect to the estate.…

This Chapter defines mortgages and the legal obligations they create and prescribes how mortgages are created, renewed and extended, their effects on real property, how they are to be extinguished, etc. Mortgage is a contract by which specific property is hypothecated for the performance of an…

This Chapter provides for public access to the ocean shore, i.e. land between the mean low waterline and series of lines connecting angle points prescribed in section 3. Extensive areas of ocean shore are inaccessible to the public due to the absence of public rights-of-way and the ocean is a…

This Act defines the composition of the Commission on Decolonization for the Implementation and Exercise of Guam Self-Determination for the Native Inhabitants of Guam.

This Act adds a new section to the subdivision legislation of Guam so as to clarify the rights and obligations relative to public access and utility easements and thereby resolve a possible source of conflict among neighbours. The Act provides for clearer description and accurate registration of…