Property for sale in Tristan da Cunha

1/ Capital: Edinburgh of the Seven Seas

Is the main settlement of the island of Tristan da Cunha, a territory of the United Kingdom in the South Atlantic Ocean and administered as a dependency of Saint Helena. It is named after Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh, the second son of Queen Victoria, when he visited the island in 1867

2/ Country: Tristan da Cunha

Is a group of remote volcanic islands in the south Atlantic Ocean, 2,816 km (1,750 miles) from South Africa and 3,360 km (2,088 miles) from South America.

3/ Property for sale in Tristan da Cunha

The origins of law and custom are usually the study of the antiquarian, but it is possible to witness the emergence of them as a contemporary process. This opportunity is afforded to us to day within the confines of the British Empire, for, in the Islands of Pitcairn, in the South Pacific, and Tristan da Cunha, in the South Atlantic, may be seen developments for the regulation of society which are a purely native and spontaneous outgrowth.

No regular communications exist with either of these islands, and, to render their isolation and detachment from the world the greater, both have rock bound coasts without harbors or natural facilities for landing.

Seeing that the British Constitution is rooted in both systems, the unwritten law to which we are accustomed to conform and the written law which we are compelled to obey, the study of Tristan da Cunha and Pitcairn in conjunction are of interest as showing the initial steps by which such a development is reached.

The community of Tristan da Cunha may be defined as a simple republic bound by its customs enforced by common consent.

It is in the customs attaching to property for sale in Tristan da Cunha that we find the outstanding feature of its dispensation, and it is to these that attention is now more especially drawn.

All land is in the first place regarded as being held in common. That acquired for building purposes becomes the absolute property of the owner when built upon, and land intended for cultivation remains the subject of individual ownership only so long as it is cultivated. Whenever an islander wishes to occupy a portion for cultivation, he encloses it, and it is considered to belong to him and his descendants so long as it is kept under cultivation, but when no longer cultivated it is thrown open and becomes common pasturage again.