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<p> In <a href="page.php?w=Common_law">common law</a> systems, <b>land tenure</b>, from the French verb "<i>tenir</i>" meaning "to hold", is the legal <a href="page.php?w=regime">regime</a> in which land "owned" by an individual is possessed by someone else who is said to "hold" the land, based on an agreement between both individuals. It determines who can use land, for how long and under what conditions. Tenure may be based both on official laws and policies, and on informal local customs (insofar higher law does allow that).  In other words,</p><p>
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