THE defence lawyers wield attestations half a century old, dusty land documents tied with pink ribbons, attendance records from Nazi social functions, and pages photocopied from history books.
In 11th-century England the Domesday Book, a record of who owned what land, documented William the Conqueror's tax base.
A child is born, grows up, and leaves her village behind to go down the rabbit hole to a strange land, documented by photographs both whimsical and ominous.
In the video, old women flash toothless grins as they hold up their land documents while a singer croons: "Mother Bun Rany gives us opportunity and destiny, and Father Techo is highly superior and elicits our great gratitude".
The coefficient of documents indicates that the value of a hectare of land which had land documents was $3,262 more than the value of a hectare of land which did not have land documents.
The RLCL focuses on four areas, namely (i) a stricter definition of land rights as property rights rather than just private contracts, (ii) a ban on large-scale reallocations of land and limiting small-scale readjustments with clear conditions, (iii) permitting land transfer between households, and (iv) a commitment to issuance of land documents (Deininger et al. 2012).
The study of Egyptian marriage certificates and land documents from the Louvre proved to be the clincher.
To combat the problem of what you called a "nebulous" legal environment with "murky property rights," in March 2004 we launched the National Program to Register Land and Document Rural Land Ownership, which will establish a satellite monitoring system to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the procedures for identifying and regulating all of Brazil's national territory.
This is done in order to validate remote sensing observations through specific measurements, identify local characteristics of the selected landing areas, document sample collection both for in situ and sample return.
