The present Act lays down comprehensive rules on the tenure of land. It contains the following chapters: 1. Property and its boundaries; 2. Property accessories; 3. Legal relations between neighbors; 4. Purchase, exchange and donation; 5. The effects of a real estate being recovered from someone after a claim; 6. Pledge; 7. General provisions on the right of use, easement and the right to electric power; 8. Leasehold in general; 9. Agricultural lease; 10. Housing lease; 11. Facility lease; 12. Rental; 13. Land lease; 14. Easement; 15. Right to electric power; 16. Property prescriptive right; 17. Preference due to registration; 18. Acquisition in good faith due to registration and the significance of registration in certain other cases; 19. Procedural aspects of registration; 20. Deed; 21. Registration of leasehold; 22. Mortgage; 23. Registration of a right of use other than a leasehold estate, as well as easements and the right to electric power; 24. Registration of declaration of land accessories. The Act lays down detailed rules on property delimitation; property accessories; obligations with regard to neighboring properties; acquisition of property; sales agreement concerning property, including the rights and obligations of buyers and sellers; the legal disputes concerning properties; mortgages on property, including preferential rights and the right of creditors; the right of use, including the right to utilize other products of the property or its natural resources, or to hunt or fish on the property; lease agreements, including its duration and registration; sale and transfer of property; priority in case of excluding rights over a property; division of property; requirements for agricultural lease agreements and other special agreements; the right of the landowner to inspect the leased property and other rights; rights and obligations in rental agreements; tenancy dispute resolution; rights and obligations regarding easements; requirements for acquisitive prescription; registration of property and its legal effects, including procedural matters regarding registration; deed and the transferring of property title; etc.
Sweden · 1970-12-17