Key participants of the military compaigns were rewarded with rights to the tribute and limited labor conscription (encomienda) required of the indigenous population in a particular district. Legally, encomienda did not confer property rights
, but holders of the privilege also received most of the earliest land grants and had the advantage of conscript labor during the planting and harvest seasons.
Ambiguous property rights : a taxonomic and exploratory account of post-colonial rural housing in Chinese Hong Kong
Hong Kong ; Housing ; Housing market ; Land ; Property right ; Real estate market ; Rural area
of law is used to demonstrate the ambiguities due to a gap between de jure and de facto property rights that may not degenerate into anarchy due to rational choices made under common law constraints driven ultimately by the land market. The implications
This article examines ambiguous property rights through a taxonomic and exploratory account of post-colonial rural housing in Chinese Hong Kong. The case of indigenous village housing in post-colonial Hong Kong under a mature system of the rule
of the case study for evaluating ambiguities in property rights in China are also discussed.
Values in land : fiscal pressures, land disputes and justice claims in rural and peri-urban China : Property rights in transition
Property rights in transition
Agricultural region ; China ; Economic geography ; Justice ; Land ; Land development ; Land policy ; Outer conurbation area ; Property right ; Real estate development ; Role of the State ; Taxation system
Cities within the city : do-it-yourself urbanism and the right to the city
Activism ; Appropriation of land ; Australia ; Citizenship ; Creativity ; Local policy ; Right to the city ; Sydney ; Urban area ; Urban policy ; Urbanism
of the ‘right to the city’. After critically assessing that concept, it argues that in order for do-it-yourself urbanist practices to generate a wider politics of the city through the appropriation of urban space, they also need to assert new forms of authority
Urban development under ambiguous property rights : a case of China's transition economy
China ; Economic reform ; Investment ; Land ; Land market ; Land use ; Property right ; Redevelopment ; Shanghai ; Urban construction ; Urban development ; Urban planning
Land ownership as a determinant in the formation of residential areas in Arab localities
Arabs ; Built up area ; Ethnic community ; Ethnic composition ; House building ; Israel ; Land ; Landrights ; Landed estate ; Residential choice ; Residential location ; Urbanization ; Village
Etude sur l'évolution de la propriété foncière basée sur l'Ottoman Land Act de 1858 et le paysage résidentiel de trois localités arabes dans la région d'Haïfa en Israël. Cette évolution s'est accompagnée d'une modification des liens d'affiliation
Aboriginal territorial rights and the sovereignty of the Sakha Republic
Aborigines ; Asian part of Russia ; Ethnic community ; Ethnic composition ; Land ; Landrights ; Legislation ; Nationalism ; Sakha ; Social structure ; Sovereignty ; Territoriality