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  1. Library Resource
    Legislation
    July, 2017
    Uganda

    Compulsory acquisition is the power of government to acquire private rights in land for a public purpose, without the willing consent of its owner or occupant. This power is known by a variety of names depending on a country’s legal traditions, including eminent domain, expropriation, takings  and  compulsory purchase.

  2. Library Resource
    Legislation & Policies
    Legislation
    May, 1960
    Ethiopia

    Preface: "The Civil Code has been promulgated by Us at a time when the progress achieved by Ethiopia requires the modemisation of the legal framework 01 Our Empire's social structure so as to keep pace with the c1umpn, circumstances of ehis world of today. In order to consolidate the progreu already achieved and to facilitate yet further growth and development, precise and detailed rules must be laid down regarding those problems which do not only jace the individual citizen bue ehe nation. as a whole.

  3. Library Resource
    Legislation & Policies
    Legislation
    May, 2012
    Kenya

    This is Kenya's general land code.

  4. Library Resource
    Legislation & Policies
    Legislation
    September, 2012
    Kenya

    This was Kenya's law on expropriation from 2010-2012 - it was repealed by the 2012 Land Act.

  5. Library Resource
    Legislation & Policies
    Legislation
    June, 1965
    Malawi

    This is the general land legislation of Malawi. 

  6. Library Resource
    Legislation & Policies
    Legislation
    January, 1955
    Botswana

    An Act to make provision authorizing the acquisition of property for public and other purposes, and for settling the amount of any compensation to be paid, or any matter in difference.

  7. Library Resource
    Legislation & Policies
    Legislation
    January, 1994
    Eritrea

    "Now, therefore, the Government of Eritrea has promulgated a Proclamation aimed at reforming the system of land tenure in Eritrea, determining land use, determining the manner of expropriating land to be utilized for development and national reconstruction, and determining the powers and responsibilities of the Land Commission."

  8. Library Resource
    Legislation & Policies
    Legislation
    June, 1962
    Ghana

    An Act to consolidate with amendments the enactments relating to the administration of Stool and other lands.

  9. Library Resource

    Act No. 8 of 2010

    Legislation & Policies
    Legislation
    June, 2010
    Lesotho

    "An Act to repeal and replace the law relating to land, provide for the grant of titles to land, the conversion of titles to land, the better securing of titles to land, the administration of land, the expropriation of land for public purposes, the grant of servitudes, the creation of land courts and the settlement of disputes relating to land; systematic regularisation and adjudication; and for connected purposes.

    Enacted by the Parliament of Lesotho"

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    (No. 4 of 1999).

    Legislation
    May, 1999
    Tanzania

    An Act to provide for the basic law in relation to land other than the village land, the management of land, settlement of disputes and related matters.

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