This Chapter concerns the recording of conveyance of real property and the effects of recording. The term conveyance embraces every instrument in writing by which any estate or interest in real property is created, alienated, mortgaged, or encumbered, or by which the title to any real property may be affected, except wills. Every conveyance of real property acknowledged or proved and certified and recorded as prescribed by law from the time it is filed with the Director of Land Management is constructive notice of the contents thereof to subsequent purchasers and mortgagees.

This Chapter contains rules relative to various kinds of actions required for determination of conflicting claims regarding real properties. Actions here regulated include: action to quiet title to real and personal property, an order made to allow a party to survey and measure the land in dispute, establishment of value of improvements on property and other increase in value, recovery of damages, actions during proceedings, injuctions, etc.

This Chapter provides for title to accessory matters to land such as fixtures put on the land by others, new land formed by alluvium, river banks carried away by sudden violence, island formed in a stream which is not navigable, islands formed by division of a river. The Chapter also provides for removing of removable fixtures by a tenant.

This Chapter provides for various matters relative to title in ancestral and for the creation of the Guam Ancestral Lands Commission. Ancestral Lands shall mean those lands owned privately by residents of Guam on or after January 1, 1930. Section 2 affirms responsibility of the government of Guam to enforce rights in private property, as a civil right, pursuant to the laws of the United States of America applicable to Guam and the Laws of Guam and provides otherwise for the recognition of ancestral land rights.

In accordance with the division of the State into (a) Eastern and Central Division; and (b) Western Division, the Act makes provision for the administration and management of Crown land in the Eastern and Central Division of the State. Main object of this Act is to provide for: (a) a proper assessment and management of Crown land; (b) the development and conservation of Crown land; (c) the reservation or dedication of Crown land for public purposes; (d) the collection, recording and dissemination of information relevant to the above.

This Act provides for procedures for the removal of squatters from land. Any person who claims possession of land which he or she alleges is occupied by a person who entered into or remained in occupation without his or her licence or consent, or that of any predecessor in title, may make application to the Court to recover possession of the land. The Act also defines powers of the police force to enter on to land in the possession of trespassers and remove them and their belongings.

This Law establishes the modalities of application of immovable property tax. Objects of taxation for natural and legal persons shall be immovable property located on the national territory except for subsidiary small-holding, agricultural constructions, educational entities, fishing and engineering constructions (if they are not used for economic activity). Taxation period shall be one calendar year. Tax tariff shall be from 0.3 to 1 percent of tax value of immovable property.

This Regional Law establishes that total land area for subsistence farming that can be owned or be allotted on other conditions shall be 17 ha for each subsistence farm.

This Regional Law regulates land relations concerning land-use planning, urban land zoning and land tenure of public land. It establishes that land tenure shall be performed exclusively in accordance with purposeful use of land. Land classification by categories, including classification of public and municipal land as agricultural land, transfer of land from one category to another shall be carried out by the supreme regional executive body.

This Regional Law establishes that land plots for individual housing and suburban construction shall be allotted to citizens in ownership with or without competitive tendering. Citizens that have no right to be allotted land plots without competitive tendering must purchase them exclusively through competitive tendering. Russian nationals that have obtained land parcel free of charge for suburban construction in accordance with this Regional Law shall have no right to allotment of land plot free of charge for individual housing construction.

This Regional Law establishes the modalities of legalization of the rights of ownership to public land plot allotted to a citizen for individual housing and suburban construction or for gardening if the documents of ownership by application of estate-leaver were not legalized during the lifetime. In the aforesaid case the heir shall have the right of allotment free of charge of the plot of land applied for by estate-leaver while alive.

La presente Ley modifica la Ley de propiedad, en el sentido de adicionar el artículo 28-A referido a los registros a ser administrados por el Instituto de la Propiedad.

Enmienda: Decreto Nº 82/04 - Ley de propiedad. (2004-06-15)