This Act regulates inheritance in general and in particular of land as defined in section 1. Section 3 concerns acquisition of land as a devisee, whereas section 4 provides for acquisition of land under certain limitations.

This Act makes provision for the acquisition and disposal of lands by the Crown, for the vesting of land in the Crown and the lease of land by the Crown.
All land and public works formerly vested in the Governor-in-Executive Committee shall, pursuant to this Act, vest in the Crown. The Minister may purchase, lease, take, accept or otherwise acquire land for use by the Crown in accordance with provisions of this Act. The Minister may also grant leases, licences of use, easements, etc. on such lands. The Minister may make rules regarding use of such lands.

According to the provisions of article 1 to the present Decree, in combination with the provisions of articles 2 and 3 of the same, public property is recognised on the extents of land defined as forests, excluding those areas which, before the beginning of the independence movement, belonged to privates. The property rights of such areas shall be recognized by the Ministry of Finance if the relevant documentation is submitted to the Ministry within one year from the day of publication of this Decree, which has the force of law.

The United Kingdom Act regulates matters of wills and inheritance of estates of deceased persons. A general devise of the testator's lands shall include copyhold and leasehold as well as freehold lands, in the absence of a contrary intention (sect. 26).

This United Kingdom Act, applicable to Tonga, regulates matters relative to wills and inheritance of estates of deceased persons. It defines the right to dispose of property by will and defines procedures of and restrictions on inheritance with special regard to customary freeholds and copyholds.

This United Kingdom Act, applicable to Tuvalu, regulates matters relative to wills and inheritance of estates of deceased persons. It defines the right to dispose of property by will and defines procedures of and restrictions on inheritance with special regard to customary freeholds and copyholds.

This Act approves the Penal Code of Mauritus. The Code sets out the criminal offences in Mauritius as well as the penalties for violation of these offences. The Code consists of 387 articles divided into four Books: penalties (book I); persons punishable, excusable or responsible (book II); crimes and misdemeanours (book III); and contraventions (book IV).
Under the offences against property chapter (book III, title II, chapter II), the Penal Code deals in particular with: damage of trees; damage of crops; with the damage of agricultural production (art. 356), defining a punishment for any person who cuts or pulls out of the ground any grain, forage, fruit, vegetable, or any other produce, knowing it belongs to another person; damaging agricultural instrument, punishing the breaking or destruction of any agricultural instrument, park or pen for cattle, or of any keeper’s hut (art. 357); poisoning, injuring and killing an animal, punishing any person who poisons any horse, or other animal used for draught, riding or carrying burden, or any horned cattle, sheep, goat, pig, watch-dog, poultry, or any fish in any pond, tank, reservoir or river (art. 358, 359 and 360). It also contains the punishment for any person that, having the possession or charge of any animal or cattle, suspected of being infected with any contagious disorder, does not give immediate notice thereof to the Commissioner of Police (art. 366); and for the person who in defiance of the prohibition given by lawful authority, allows his infected animals or cattle to communicate with others (art. 367).
In addition, the Code foresees under crimes against public peace (book III, title I, chapter III) sanctions for selling adulterated liquor (art. 237).

This Act hereby divides Guyana into three distinct and separate counties: the counties of Demerara, Essequibo and Berbice.

The most important Act of Dutch civil law is the Civil Code, whose original version was based upon the Napoleonic Code and largely revised in 1992. It deals with the core areas of national private law and is for this purpose classified into ten Books, as follows: 1) Persons and Family Law; 2) Legal Persons; 3) Property Law in General; 4) Succession (Inheritance); 5) Real Property Rights; 6) Obligations and Contracts; 7) Particular Contracts; 8)Transport Law; 9) Intellectual Property; 10) Private International Law.
OWNERSHIP AND PROPERTY RIGHTS. Book 3 lays down general provisions on property law, including: bookkeeping and registration of registered property, acquisition and loss of property, possession, community of property, fiduciary administration of property. Specific rules apply to usufruct; real security rights cover pledge and mortgage. Book 5 concerns real propery rights, namely: easement, long leasehold, right of superficies and aparments rights.
INHERITANCE. Book 4 on law of succession is structured into six Titles, as follows: I) General provisions; II) Intestate succession; III) Intestate succession in the relation between the spouse and the children of the deceased; IV) The last will of the deceased; V) Last wills of various types; VI) Consequences of a succession.
OBLIGATIONS AND CONTRACTS. Book 6 concerns the law of obligations. It defines the concept of "obligation2 as follows: "a specific legal relationship between in principle two persons, the creditor on the one hand and the debtor on the other, that is created either by agreement (contract) or by operation of law, in the latter case as soon as an event occurs which makes it desirable to standards of social opinion, as captured in law, that one person obtains a right to a performance which has to be carried out by another person (tortious act, benevolent intervention in another's affairs, undue performance, unjustified enrichement)." Contracts are regulated by general provisions under Book 6 and by special provisions under Book 7. The latter contains rules applicable to sale and exchange, donation, credit contracts for consumers, lease, loan and employment, among others. It is worth noticing articles 311-399 relating to farm lease: under a farm lease agreement one of the parties (the lessor) is engaged towards the other party (the lessee) to grant the use of an immovable thing or a part of such a thing in order to run a farm on it, opposite to which the lessee engages himself to perform a counter performance.
WATER. As to water resources, Book 5 on property rights contains provisions concerning waterways (the State is presumed to be the owner of the bottom of public waterways), wastewater (water that by nature streams downwards from higher located premises must be received by lower located premises) and the necessary water supply system (the owner of land who wants to receive by means of a supply system water that is at his disposal at another place, may demand that the owners of the neighbouring lands tolerate that the pipes of this system go under, through or over their lands, against the payment in advance of compensatory damages or the provision of security for this purpose).

This Act provides for the registration of fishing vessels and harbour crafts employed on the coasts of Bombay, Saurashtra and Kutch.
Owners of vessels shall apply for registry to the Principal Officer by the Mercantile Marine Department at Bombay who shall perform the duty of marking and branding the vessels, and shall issue a certificate of registry to the owners. Registration fees shall be paid by the owners of vessels based on their tonnage.
Penal provisions are also included in the text.

This Act makes provision with respect to inheritance by will. It also concerns inheritance of freehold estates in another manner than by will. The Act concerns, among other things, the making of a will, validity, execution of a will and revocation of a will.

The Ordinance provides for all forest and unoccupied or not cultivated lands, even lands where cinnamon is sown, to be property of the State and their arbitrary occupation unlawful. Perpetrators shall be summoned and only in the case they can demonstrate to have rights of ownership on those lands, they shall be granted their possession. If they do not lawfully own the lands, whatever item is found in that land shall be removed or destroyed and the property returned to the State and all the expenses the State incurred in shall be charged to the offenders together with the relative fines.
Chapter IV establishes conditions and principles governing the alienation by permit or grant and the criteria for the calculation of the annual payment. Further provisions concern among other matters: protection of land held on permits or grants (chap. V); succession (chap. VII); cancellation of grants and permits (chap. VIII); procedure in ejectment (chap. IX); recovery of annual payments and moneys due to the State (chap. X).

This Act allows authorized land officers to ascertain and mark by landmarks the proper boundaries of every grant of lands within Western Australia. Authorized land officers shall then report the boundaries along with a description of the several landmarks placed therein for approval to the Governor-in-Council.

This Act provides rules for public order in towns and communities. It provides rules for the handling of animals on roads and other public places and prohibits various acts that may cause nuisance in public places, such as the burning of wood, littering, keeping of pigsties and negligent use of fire.

The Ordinance aims at facilitating the identification of land boundaries in Sri Lanka. To this end, apart from the power of the Government Agent to demand in writing the production of title deeds to the owners or occupiers of lands, it regulates the following cases: (a) undisturbed possession of lands erroneously granted by the State for more or less than three years; (b) possession for two to five years or for more than five years of uncultivated land belonging to another person; (c) definition of boundaries between proprietors of adjoining lands; (d) definition of boundaries of private land adjoining State land by the Government Agent or Assistant Government Agent; (e) certification by the Surveyor-General of cost of surveys and payment and recovery of such cost; (f) disputes to be referred to arbitration; (g) offences and penalties relevant to the removal or destruction of landmarks.