This Act provides with respect to limitation of judicial action in relation with land-related rights. Actions include the recovery of land, rent or mortgage. The Act also concerns rights of tenants and the acquiescence of boundaries.

This Act concerns the partition of land and relative legal proceedings, such as a suit of partition and sale of property, and the legal consequences of partition.
Amended by: Partition Act (Increase in Jurisdiction of Resident Magistrates) Order, 20l3. (2013-01-15)

This Act concerns infrastructure improvements at the local level and related matters.The Minister may declare, by Order, special improvements (infrastructure) areas for purposes of this Act for lands intended for community development and subdivision for this purpose. Infrastructure shall…

This Act shall apply to every undertaking authorized by any subsequent enactment (called “Special Statute”) which shall authorize the purchase or taking of lands for such undertaking and this Act shall be incorporated with such enactment. All the clauses and provisions of this Act, save so far…

The Act makes provision for the establishment of the Port Authority, its functions and powers, management and staff, etc., financial matters, port dues and charges, pilotage, navigation ports, prevention and fighting of accidents, and prescribes offences. The Authority is established under…

This Act defines the liability of an occupier of premises for injury to persons or damage caused to goods and resulting from actions or omissions of the occupier in respect of the occupied property. The Act also defines the liability of a landlord under the obligation of maintenance or repair of…

This Act sets out rules relative to conveyancing of title in property, including land, and related matters such as rights related to leases and mortgages.The rules concern, among other things, contracts of sale, procedures for transactions, the role of court in case of encumbrances or other…

This Act makes provision for the recording of certain legal deeds and patents and the effect of such recording and prescribes penalties for the selling or mortgaging of land, tenements and hereditaments twice.The Act sets out certain conditions for a transfer of any freehold or inheritance and…

This Act concerns the validation of bona fide voluntary conveyance of lands, tenements or hereditaments. “Conveyance” includes every mode of disposition mentioned or referred to in specified enactments. This Act does not apply in any case in which the author of a voluntary conveyance of any…

This Act establishes the Jamaica Development Bank as a body corporate and provides for its functions and powers and organization.The Bank shall be responsible for providing capital for development in Jamaica including agricultural development for which a division in the Bank shall be created.…

This Act sets out rules for the sale, partition, lease, administration by trustees, mortgaging, exchange, etc. of settled land and certain rights related to the use of such land. The Act sets out criteria and definitions as to what land is considered settled land. It defines the right of a…

This Act provides rules relative to acquisition of land and other property by the State for public purposes.It sets out procedures and conditions for acquisition either by agreement or on the basis of unilateral action by the Commissioner of Lands. In both cases, a declaration of the Minister…