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CHAPTER THIRD PROPERTY IN ITS RELATIONS TO ITS OWNERS OR POSSESSORS

Revised Laws of Saint Lucia (2022)

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CHAPTER THIRD
PROPERTY IN ITS RELATIONS TO ITS OWNERS OR POSSESSORS

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    354.   Property belongs either to the crown, or to corporations, or to individuals.

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    That of corporations is subject, in certain respects as to its administration, its acquisition and its alienation, to certain rules and formalities which are peculiar to it.

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    Individuals have the free disposal of the things belonging to them under the modifications established by law.

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    355.   Roads and public ways maintained by the State, the Queen's chain, the sea-shore, lands reclaimed from the sea, ports, harbours and roadsteads, and generally all those portions of territory which do not constitute private property, are considered as being dependencies of the crown domain.

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    356.   All estates which are vacant or without an owner, and those of persons who die without representatives or whose succession is abandoned, belong to the crown.

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    357.   The gates, walls, ditches, and ramparts of military places and of fortresses also belong to the crown.

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    358.   The same rule applies to the lands, fortifications and ramparts of places which are no longer used for military purposes; they belong to the crown, if they have not been validly alienated.

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    359.   The property of corporations is that to which or to the use of which these bodies have an acquired right.

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    360.   A person may have with respect to property, either a right of ownership, or a simple right of enjoyment, or a servitude to exercise.

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OWNERSHIP

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    361.   Ownership is the right of enjoying and of disposing of things in the most absolute manner, provided that no use be made of them which is prohibited by law or by regulations made in accordance with law.

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    362.   No one can be compelled to give up his property except for public utility and in consideration of a just indemnity.

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    363.   Ownership in a thing, whether movable or immovable, gives the right to all it produces, and to all that is joined to it as an accessory whether naturally or artificially. This right is called the right of accession.

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