land rights
Territorial ownership entitlements
Land rights are legal claims to own, use, or access land.
The term often appears in discussions of indigenous peoples seeking recognition of ancestral territories, or communities fighting displacement by governments or corporations.
Land rights encompass not just ownership but also rights to farm, hunt, gather resources, or simply remain: The tribe has been fighting for land rights for decades.
- sacred sitesReligiously significant locations
- propertySomething owned or inherent
- sovereigntySupreme independent authority
- communal ownershipJoint holding by many
- self-determinationControl over one's fate
usufruct · broken treaties · treaty obligations · agrarian reform · indigenous peoples · traditional territories · hunting grounds · oral traditions · deed · legal title · claim · squatter · inheritance · cultural preservation · title · tenure · occupation · settler
- territoryterritory, region, domain, realm, dominion
- Hammurabi's Codeeye for an eye, stele, cuneiform, Babylon, property law
- land rightseasement, easements, freehold, leasehold, title deed
- indigenous rightsnative sovereignty, indigenous sovereignty, traditional territories, indigenous law, tribal sovereignty
- small-scale farmingfamily farms, subsistence farming, homesteads, smallholdings, market gardens
- trade rightstariffs, quotas, trade agreements, trade deals, embargoes
land rightslandlessness
Lacking owned territory
dispossession · land theft · expropriation · squatting · adverse possession
land rightsstate ownership
Government possession of assets
crown land · eminent domain · nationalization · collectivization · land seizure
land rightsdispossession
Deprival of property rights
colonization · land grabbing · settler colonialism · conquest · annexation
land, right, landing, lands, landed, rights, rightful, rightfully, rightist