ABSTRACT
In the previous chapter attention has been given to land, to property and the functions of property in society. In this chapter land tenure; the way people ‘hold’ rights to land and real property will be explored. The term ‘land tenure’ is used both as a legal term and as a more emotional term. In this book emphasis will often be on the emotional significance of land tenure; the way individuals perceive benefits, enjoyment, and obligations in respect to real property. Put in this way, land tenure emphasizes the perceived way of exercising rights to land by any owner of such rights, demanded and expected by society and/or community.
