Rather than the fog of uncertainty of traditional land law, they are getting proper title deeds.
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Croatia has only 4.4m people but a backlog of 1.2m civil cases, including issues over title deeds.
Title deeds of land which could be crossed by the road are to be re-examined by Highland Council.
What will happen to the house will depend on the way in which the title deeds are drafted.
According to environmental sources, he handed out 700 title deeds to forest land two weeks before the 1997 election.
They will now get a share of the designated farms, and will, in time, says the government, receive title deeds.
Since February, for example, contractors have been rehabilitating buildings in which they live and government lawyers have been transferring title deeds.
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Brazil lacks a central land register, suffers widespread forgery of title deeds and has a long history of squatters seizing land.
Common good campaigner Andy Wightman said in December that BBC research of the title deeds suggested the area should have that status.
Where forest ownership is contested, because local rights are vague or there are competing title deeds, for example, that becomes more difficult.
Unionists also hope that the name RUC will be retained in the "title deeds" of the new police service, if not in its working title.
"It doesn't matter whether you give people title deeds or secure tenure, " writes proponent Robert Neuwirth in Shadow Cities: A Billion Squatters in a New Urban World.
The value of rural land in Brazil, Indonesia, the Philippines and Thailand increased sharply when people were given title deeds, because owners were more willing to invest.
So a typical slum rent is much higher, relative to the value of the house, than it would be in a posh area where landlords have title deeds.
In many cases they or their heirs still hold the title deeds, even though the property has been seized by Turkish-Cypriots, developed or, in some cases, sold to foreigners.
Protocolos official recognition of a land claim are now being issued as bar codes rather than as documents similar to title deeds that can be sold or used as collateral for bank loans.
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While the RUC is not expected to be the "working title" of the new police service, David Trimble's party expects it to be included in the "title deeds" of the new service.
If there is no survivorship clause in the title deeds, your mum's half of house could pass under the law of intestacy to the four children equally (assuming no surviving spouse or new partner).
The British government rejects this but says that it is prepared to help financially with land resettlement, provided Zimbabwe pushes for productivity, establishes an accurate land register of title deeds and the scheme is seen to benefit the poor.
The minister adds that the government will use this new provision to sort out the issue of absentee landlords on the coast who do not utilise their land, and make claim to only it by virtue of holding title deeds.
Iain Strachan from Edinburgh Council outlined the difficulties his council had establishing which properties came under the common good category for registers, saying it had to pour over ancient title deeds that went back to the time of King David.
"If they are saying that the name of the RUC being included in the title deeds and maybe not in the working title of the police, that this is too much for them and they will walk and refuse to accept the police service, then it calls into question their entire commitment to the process, " he said.
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