Since the first land laws of 1993 property sector in Vietnam is increasingly open to foreign individuals and organizations. Initially the 1992 Constitution of Socialist Republic of Vietnam, articles 17, states that “the land as belonging to the state fall under the ownership of the entire people”. So technically, no one can own land : foreigners or Vietnamese. However statute of the land is not the same as built property. Since this first law, proprietorship evolves, the 1993 Land Law was replaced by the 1998 Land Law and most recently by the 2003 Land Law. January 1 2009, the National Assembly approved the circular 13 allowing foreigners to buy flats and apartments in the country. At last, in August the Ministry of Construction proposed to authorize the purchase of homes by foreigners who have a visa to enter Vietnam for more than three months. To understand the foreign ownership in Vietnam we need to distinct the type of real estate concern by ownership. Vietnam Constitution and land laws distinct land ownership and house ownership. In an other side the Vietnam land law make a distinction about people, between locals, foreign people and overseas Vietnamese or “Viet Kieu” who have a special status compared to other foreign. We will see on a first time the current restrictions on foreigners owning land or apartments in Vietnam (I). In a second time we will talk about the particular status of “Viet Kieu” and the opportunities to circumvent ownership restrictions (II). I. Foreign property limits in Vietnam In Vietnam the land belong to the state, foreigners are not allowed to own land, but under specifics conditions called “land use rights” the state can give rights to use the land to individuals or collectives foreigners (A) . The ... ... middle of paper ... ...ign individual with a direct investment in Vietnam, or who holds a management position in a company currently operating in Vietnam”. In this case the person just need to obtain the certificate of a company to certify that it holds a management position. Regarding to the last declaration of Vietnamese ministry of construction we can expect that foreign ownership of legal estate in Vietnam will be more flexible. The ministry proposed that foreigner will be allow to buy houses no bigger than 500 square meters. He also talk about 70 years ownership period or the possibility of an extension after the expiration period. At last he plans to offer the opportunity for foreigners to own several houses. The current situation is temporary, in the coming few years we can expect to see legal developments in real estate legislation that could facilitate access to foreign ownership.
In any case of mandatory purchase, the purchased property should be used for the public good. The government must have proof of a plan to use the property to improve the lives of the public before the property can be purchased. Property must also be purchased in accordance with law, which will vary from country to country.
The Land Reform Act of 1967 permitted the state of Hawaii to redistribute land by condemning and acquiring private property from landlords (the lessors) in order to sell it to another private owner, in this case, their tenants (the lessees). The Hawaii State Legislature passed the Land Reform Act after discovering that nearly forty-seven percent (47%) of the state was owned by only seventy-two (72) private land owners. That meant that only forty-nine percent of Hawaii was owned by the State and Federal Govermnet.The contested statute gave lessees of single family homes the right to invoke the government's power of eminent domain to purchase the property that they leased, even if the landowner objected. The challengers of the statue (the land owners) claimed that such a condemnation was not a taking for public use because the property, once condemned by the state, was promptly turned over to the lessee (a private ...
To stimulate growth inland, the Homestead Act was initiated. Many traveled overland by horse and wagon on rutted trails and grassland to find a plot of 160 acres of undeveloped land. They were granted title to the land if they “improved” the plot by building a dwelling and cultivating the land. After five years on the land, farmers were entitled to the property, free and clear.
Lawrence’s purpose in writing this book was concise and to the point. In recent history, due to the fall of the Soviet bloc, new information has been made available for use in Vietnam. As stated in the introduction, “This book aims to take account of this new scholarship in a brief, accessible narrative of the Vietnam War… It places the war within the long flow of Vietnamese history and then captures the goals and experiences of various governments that became deeply embroiled in the country during the second half of the twentieth century” (Lawrence, 3.) This study is not only about the American government and how they were involved in the Vietnam conflict, but highlights other such countries as France, China, and the Soviet Union. Lawrence goes on to say that one of his major goals in writing this book is to examine the American role in Vietnam within an international context (Lawrence, 4.) Again, this goes to show that the major purpose of Lawrence’s study included not only ...
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And since the land couldn’t be owned, it couldn’t be bought – for that reason the Powhatan's concluded "Selling land was essentially equivalent to selling air"
by forbidding the sale of any land within the reserve unless it was turned over to the
I THESIS STATEMENT The Homestead Act of 1862 made surveyed lands obtainable to homesteaders. The act stated that men and women over the age of 21, unmarried women who were head of households and married men under the age of 21, who did not own over 160 acres of land anywhere, were citizens or intended on becoming citizens of the United States, were eligible to homestead. This paper will show how the Homestead Act came to be enacted, who the homesteaders were, and the effects of the Homestead Act on the pioneers. II.
Under Kentucky law, KRS 416.540 (6), the common wealth has the right to take land for public use but for just compensation. Court cases have interpreted public use as a taking for any rationally related service for public purpose; which means that the government can take land for a non-governmental entity and that purpose doesn’t even have to directly serve the public.
for an amount of money to be determined by Congress with the rest of the land
... that Constitution never expressly gave the country a right to acquire new land, so the government did not have the right to acquire territory” (Allard par. 68).
person receiving the land, had to go through ceremony in which they would say that they
apartments in certain areas of a city. The goal is usually to protect the rights
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