Definition of "land-law" [land-law]

• The law of a land or country; the ‘law of the land.’ (noun)
• Law, or a law, relating to land considered as property. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "English land-law practices were too cumbersome, technical, and expensive for this class to bear."
• "Yet the specific historical ways in which women had organized their relationship to the landtheir strategies for obtaining fields, their notions of land tenure, their land-use practices and farming cultureremained neglected subjects, despite general acknowledgement that rural women's lives would be profoundly affected by land-law reform in the postwar era of World Bank-financed reconstruction."
• "Meanwhile, defenders of peasants 'rights in Mozambique's land-law debate were recommending that statutory rights to bounded tracts of "ancestral" land be given to rural communitieswhose boundaries and constitution peasant advocates rarely specifiedand that local bodies much like the LC be vested with the authority to negotiate terms of land use by private interests and the state."