A LAW FOR THE PROTECTION OF THE CLAIMS OF ECCLESIASTICAL CORPORATIONS TO CERTAIN KINDS OF LAND - ΚΕΦ.220

Τι ρυθμίζει αυτή η πράξη;

• 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.

Ποιους αφορά αυτή η πράξη;

• 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.

Ποια είναι τα βασικά σημεία;

• 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.