Property
1967 land laws vesting untitled land in the state
The 1967 land statutes established registration and treated unregistered land as state domain. Customary tenure predominates outside the towns and pastoralist access routes are a persistent source of conflict with cultivators.
Key rules
- Jurisdiction — The Direction des Domaines registers; ordinary courts decide disputes, often applying custom.
- Deadline — Registration publicity: objection period before title
- Deadline — Expropriation: compensation assessed before possession
Governing law
- Loi n° 23 du 22 juillet 1967 portant statut des biens domaniaux
- Loi n° 24 du 22 juillet 1967 portant régime de la propriété foncière
- Loi n° 4 du 31 octobre 1959 on pastoral movement
In practice
Chadian land law's most consequential feature is not the register but the regulation of transhumance: the legal treatment of pastoralist corridors under mid-century statutes governs recurring and often violent disputes between herders and farmers across the Sahelian belt.