In short
This law, called the Ecclesiastical Properties Law, protects the claims of ecclesiastical corporations to certain types of land. It simplifies how these corporations can prove ownership of cultivated land and restricts activities on specific waste lands.
What it regulates
- How ecclesiastical corporations can prove their title to cultivated lands in legal actions.
- Restrictions on breaking up, pasturing, cultivating, or cutting wood on certain waste lands.
- The types of land to which the law does not apply.
Who it concerns
- Ecclesiastical corporations, including archbishops, bishops, abbots, chief ecclesiastical functionaries, governing bodies of monasteries, and church committees.
- Any person who interferes with cultivated lands in the possession of an ecclesiastical corporation.
- Any person who breaks up, pastures upon, cultivates, or cuts wood upon certain waste lands.
Key points
- For cultivated lands, an ecclesiastical corporation only needs to show evidence of ten years' possession to maintain an action against interference, even if the other party is the registered owner.
- This privilege for cultivated lands does not apply if the corporation took possession after May 22, 1891.
- It is unlawful for any person to break up, pasture, cultivate, or cut wood on waste land where an ecclesiastical corporation exercised an exclusive right of pasturage between 1878 and 1893.
- For waste lands, the corporation must have lodged a statement with the District Lands Office by December 1, 1893, detailing the land's boundaries, situation, and approximate extent.
- This law does not apply to "mulk" lands.
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A LAW FOR THE PROTECTION OF THE CLAIMS OF ECCLESIASTICAL CORPORATIONS TO CERTAIN KINDS OF LAND - ΚΕΦ.220
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A LAW FOR THE PROTECTION OF THE CLAIMS OF ECCLESIASTICAL CORPORATIONS TO CERTAIN KINDS OF LAND (ΚΕΦ.220)
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Short title
1. This law may be cited as the Ecclesiastical Properties Law.
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Interpretation
2. In this Law-
"ecclesiastical corporation" means every archbishop or bishop acting on behalf of his see, every abbot or other chief ecclesiastical functionary or governing body of any monastery acting on behalf of the monastery, and every church committee or other body of persons for the time being exercising the superintendence over and management of the affairs of any church.
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Evidence of title to cultivated land
3. In any action brought by an ecclesiastical corporation in respect of any interference with or trespass upon any cultivated lands in the possession of the corporation, it shall not be necessary for the plaintiff to produce evidence of his title to such cultivated lands, but evidence of ten years possession alone shall be sufficient to enable the corporation to maintain the action against any person interfering with the lands, even if he is the registered owner in the books of the District Lands Office:
Provided that the privileges conferred by this section shall not apply to any lands of which any such corporation has taken possession after the 22nd day of May, 1891.
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Waste land
4. It shall not be lawful for any person to break up or pasture upon or cultivate or cut wood upon any waste land over which any ecclesiastical corporation has, between the years 1878 and 1893, exercised an exclusive right of pasturage and with respect to which it has lodged with the District Lands Office of the district in which such land is situate on or before the 1st day of December, 1893, a statement setting forth the boundaries, situation and approximate extent thereof.
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Law not to apply to mulk lands
5. Nothing in this Law contained shall be deemed to apply to any land of the category known as mulk.
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