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n. (label en informal) the rights of indigenous peoples to land, either individually or collectively.
Usage examples of "land rights".
Of course, they were grandmas or mommas when they came, but it won't be long before people have enough land credits to get their land rights.
A village usually owed rents to several landowners, as land rights could and often were subdivided, leased, sold, inherited, etc.
Yet in February 1994, not long after I visited Ghana, thirteen thousand people fled tribal fighting over land rights, which claimed the lives of between one and three thousand people in the north of the country.
It was like a banner, like the device on a shield, the land rights, the claim on mutual defense, and not a man in the hall could have forgotten that Crissand stood waiting and empty-handed.
They were sitting a little apart from the rest, who were immersed in a discussion of legalities and land rights.
The law deals with criminal offenses, land rights and other things.
Half had been awarded to the survivors of the blood feud, but it could be possible that this old baron might mount a valid claim for his land rights.