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Information about leasing beach front property in Costa Rica. Since 1978 all beaches are public land, with very few exceptions.  Read about the restrictions and regulations governing Costa Rica's Maritime Zone

Costa Rica real estate closing costs and information you must provide.

MULTIPLE OWNERSHIP in the Costa Rican Civil Law system.
A jurisdictional article, © Lic. José Juan Sánchez, (LL.M.International Law), Feb 2009.

“Property  interests may be exercised, either as a fractional right or as a use interest, or just as a useful domain” art. 543 Napoleonic Code, France 1804.

"In civilized society men must be able to assume that they control, for purposes beneficial to themselves, what they have discovered and appropriated to their own use, what they have created by their own labor and what they have acquired under the existing social and economic order. This is a jural postulate of civilized society as we know it. The Law of property in the widest sense, including incorporeal property and the growing doctrines as to protection of economically advantageous relations, gives effect to the social want or demand in this postulate.” Pound, An Introduction to the Philosophy of Law 1822.