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FAO Legal Office
FAO Legal Office
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FAOLEX

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The FAO Legal Office provides in-house counsel in accordance with the Basic Texts of the Organization, gives legal advisory services to FAO members, assists in the formulation of treaties on food and agriculture, for which the Director-General acts as Depositary, publishes legal studies and maintains a database (FAOLEX) of national legislation and international agreements concerning food and agriculture (including fisheries, forestry and water).

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Ordinance by the Great Council on the introduction of a Land Register.

Regulations
Switzerland
Europe
Western Europe

The present Ordinance by the Great Council of the Canton Aargau establishes an Interim Land Register run by the land registry clerk until a proper Land Register is introduced. The text consists of 43 articles divided into 5 Parts as follows. Registration of property rights until the introduction of a proper Land Register (1); Clearing of land protocols (2); Establishment of the Land Register (3); Costs (4); Final provisions (5).

State Lands Act (Cap. 57:01).

Legislation
Trinidad and Tobago
Caribbean
Americas

This Act provides for the administration, management and protection of state lands. It also provides that the dominion of the seashore lying between the high water mark and the low water mark belongs to and is vested in the State. The President may grant (a licence for) part of such land, and land reclaimed from the sea shall belong to and be vested in the State or the grantee.

Affidavits of Prescription Act.

Legislation
Mauritius
Africa
Eastern Africa

This Act concerns an affidavit witnessing the acquisition by prescription of immovable property. The Act, among other things: sets out conditions for transcription of affidavit; provides with respect to an application for the transcription of an affidavit of prescription; requires the Conservator of Mortgages to enter in a special register the particulars of every affidavit of prescription received for transcription; provides for procedures of transcription including objections by interested parties; defines effects of transcription.