If ten people each own one of those acres, in theory five could build on their land in exchange for promises of conservation in perpetuity from the other five.
This has led some locals to consider a modern version of an old idea, the Homestead Act of 1862, which helped to populate the Plains by giving settlers up to 640 acres of land in exchange for a commitment to stay for five years.
Olmert's offer, which Abbas rejected, involved a "land swap, " in which in the framework of a comprehensive peace deal, Israel would give the Palestinians land from within its 1949 boundaries in exchange for land in Judea and Samaria that Israel would permanently retain.
They donated it to the Bahamian government in exchange for land on the island's east side.
British and German soldiers stopped fighting and ventured into no man's land to talk, exchange gifts and play football.
While demonstrators rampaged outside, a parliamentary committee was hearing evidence this week about an illegal exchange of land by Vatopedi monastery on Mount Athos.
But he does not appear to think, as many do, that this was because they thought Srebrenica could not be held and that it would be better to lose it in war than give it up at the peace table in exchange for land elsewhere.
The American electorate is still trapped in Nixonland: a land where Democrats and Republicans exchange endless gibes about who despises whom, where simmering class and regional resentments trump all other political considerations and where the airwaves crackle with accusations about lies and counter-lies.
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Mr Boles said open land would be built on in exchange for commitments to defend greenbelt spaces.
Resources gained from the removal of harmful subsidies can then be used to create positive financial incentives for biodiversity protection, such as payment for ecosystem services schemes, whereby incentives are offered to landowners in exchange for managing their land to protect biodiversity and ecosystem services.
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The Japanese auto industry is likely to remain a potent force, but increasingly manufacturers will supply their brands from plants that are less vulnerable to earthquakes, exchange rates and other disadvantages that have been making the Land of the Rising Sun a difficult place to do business.
The idea of Israel giving up the land it conquered in the course of successive wars waged against it in exchange for a genuine peace with the Arabs has been around at least since the last of those wars ended in 1973.
Lawyers say the signs in the lobby listing the price of admission with the word "recommended" below in smaller type violate a 1893 law mandating the public be admitted free of charge at least five days and two evenings per week in exchange for monetary grants and rent-free use of city-owned land.
Analysts reckon that at least 15 of the 119 construction firms listed on the first section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange are bust in all but name, as the value of their land holdings bought at the height of the bubble has plummeted and loans guaranteed to subsidiaries and property developers have turned sour.
In a move that could spell more trouble for Dubai's Emaar Properties, revenue officials from India's Enforcement Directorate Thursday raided Emaar MGF Land, the Indian unit of the UAE developer, in New Delhi for allegedly violating foreign exchange regulations.
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