21.   Though some inherited land, many bought their farms after the country won independence from Britain two decades ago.

22.   He advocated a lifetime lease with the right to inherit land, and praised the systems of land tenure adopted by the Netherlands and Israel.

23.   It was little more than two and a half years ago that women in the New Territories were given the legal right to inherit land.

24.   -- That legal and administrative hurdles that block women in some countries from owning or inheriting land or gaining access to credit be removed.

25.   Depriving Asians of the right to own or inherit land was a particularly hard-hitting prohibition in an agricultural era, Chin said, and violations were not treated lightly.