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Decree of 1917 on land.

Country/Territory
Russian Federation
Document type
Regulation
Date
1917
Source
FAO, FAOLEX
Original source
Photocopy.
Subject
Land & soil
Keyword
Land reform Expropriation Agricultural land Land tenure Public land Ownership Liability/compensation Size
Geographical area
Arctic, Asia and the Pacific, Black Sea, Caspian Sea, CIS (Commonwealth of Independent States), Eastern Europe, Europe, Europe and Central Asia, North Pacific, North-West Pacific
Entry into force notes
Entry into force from the date of issue.
Abstract

The Decree establishes that: 1). Landlord property rights are abolished immediately without any compensation. 2). Landlord country property, as well as other appanage land, monastic land and ecclesiastical land with all agricultural implements, livestock, manor houses and equipment are transferred to the disposal of the Provincial Land Commissions and the District Soviets of Peasant Deputies till the settlement of the land issue by the Constituent Assembly. 3). Any damage to property subject to expropriation that from now on is decreed national property is considered grave offence punishable by the revolutionary court. District Soviets of Peasant Deputies must undertake all the necessary measures for the strict observance of the modalities of expropriation of landlord country property, for the determination of size ceilings and the plots of land subject to expropriation, for composition of the exact inventory of the property subject to expropriation and its revolutionary protection. 4). Plots of land belonging to ordinary peasants and ordinary Cossacks are not subject to expropriation.

Full text
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