Land claim

Land claims are a legal declaration of desired control over areas of property including bodies of water. The phrase is usually only used with respect to disputed or unresolved land claims. Some types of land claims include aboriginal land claims, Antarctic land claims, and post-colonial land claims.Land claims is sometimes used as a term when referring to disputed territories like Western Sahara or to refer to the claims of displaced persons.In the colonial times of America persons could claim a piece of land for themselves and the claim has different level of merit according to the de facto conditions: claim without any action on the groundclaim with (movable) property of the claimant on the groundclaim with the claimant visiting the landclaim with claimant living on the land.
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