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AGRARIAN LAW

Specialty Definition: AGRARIAN LAW

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Literature

Agrarian Law from the Latin ager (land), is a law for making land the common property of a nation, and not the particular property of individuals. In a modified form, it means a redistribution of land, giving to each citizen a portion. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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Use in Literature: AGRARIAN LAW

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Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

Communism and agrarian law think they have solved the second problem.

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Non-Fiction Usage: AGRARIAN LAW

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Economic History

Ecuador

Current agrarian law makes legalization of such seizures difficult and guarantees cash payment of the market value of the expropriated property. (references)

Bolivia

The Sanchez de Lozada Administration enacted the Agrarian Law to reform the National Service of Agrarian Reform and the Institute of Colonization, both of which handled land registry. (references)

Costa Rica

This is especially true for absentee owners of undeveloped or vacant rural properties, as Costa Rican agrarian law is relatively quick to confer title to occupants of land considered "abandoned". (references)

Indigenous People

Indonesia

The Basic Agrarian Law states that land rights cannot be "in conflict with national and state interests," which provides the Government with a broad legal basis for land seizures. (references)

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Modern Translation: AGRARIAN LAW

Language Translations for "AGRARIAN LAW"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Dutch

  

Vereniging voor agrarisch recht (Agrarian Law Society). (various references)

   

French

  

Association pour le droit agricole (Agrarian Law Society). (various references)

   

German

  

Vereinigung für Agrarrecht (Agrarian Law Society). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

agrarianay awlay

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Ancestral Language Translations: AGRARIAN LAW

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Middle French1400-1600

loy agrarienne. (various references)

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Anagrams: AGRARIAN LAW

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-a-a-g-i-l-n-r-r-w"

-3 letters: agrarian, larrigan, warragal, warrigal.

-4 letters: analgia, angaria, arraign, warring.

-5 letters: agnail, argala, argali, lawing, narial, narwal, raglan, raring, waling, waring.

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INDEX

1. Quotations: Fiction
2. Quotations: Non-fiction
3. Translations: Modern
4. Translations: Ancient
5. Anagrams
6. Bibliography


  

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