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Lucayan Indians inhabited the islands when Christopher COLUMBUS first set foot in the New World on San Salvador in 1492. British settlement of the islands began in 1647; the islands became a colony in 1783. Since attaining independence from the UK in 1973, The Bahamas has prospered through tourism, international banking, and investment management. Because of its location, the country is a major transshipment point for illegal drugs, particularly shipments to the US and Europe, and its territory is used for smuggling illegal migrants into the US.
The Bahamas is a parliamentary democracy under a constitutional monarchy.
Source: CIA World Factbook
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Displaying 16 - 20 of 86Fraudulent Conveyances Act (Cap. 150).
This Act makes rules so as to prevent and punish fraudulent conveyances of land that deceive purchasers. Such fraudulent conveyances are declared to be void. Provision is also made in respect conveyances of lands afterwards sold for good consideration.
Distress for Rent (No. 2) Act (Cap. 165).
This Act makes provision with respect to distress for rent not paid by a tenant to a landlord and it gives powers to a landlord to distrain and sell goods and chattels fraudulently carried off the premises. The landlord may seize and secure cattle, stock or crops or other product whatsoever, which shall be growing on any part of the demised estates, if the tenant doesn't pay the rent. The Act also provides, among other things, for recovery of rents from under-tenants and prohibits a tenant or lessee to fraudulently remove his or her goods or chattels.
Landlord and Tenant Act (Cap. 161).
This Act makes provision with respect to goods and chattels that belong to a tenant that has arrears of rent to a landlord and which shall secure compensation for non-payment of such rent and relative execution. Distress or the bringing of actions may also be applied in the case of lease for life.
Mortgages Act (Cap. 156).
This Act makes provision with respect to a simplification in rules regarding redemption and foreclosure of mortgages. The rules concerns satisfaction of costs by mortgagor in actions concerning mortgages or ejectments and the power of Court to compel the mortgagee to surrender the Premises, and legal proceedings regarding extinguishments of a mortgage.
Imperial Lands of the Minister of Transport Act
This Act empowers the Minister of Transport of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland to acquire, hold and dispose of land and interests in land in the The Bahamas. Notwithstanding the provisions of any Act all lands and interests in land described in the Schedule to this Act are hereby vested in the Minister of Transport.