Restitution in Republic of Serbia

Abstract

On the territory of the former Yugoslavia, the issue of property relations has often changed. In the post-World War II period, private property was taken away by various economic and political measures, and transformed into a social one. In this way, the parcels were taken from the rich layers of society, distributed to the poor, but also significantly fragmented in a way that limited the agricultural benefit. Later, former owners of taken property sought compensation, where the term restitution appeared for the first time, as a process of returning the taken property. In Serbia, in 2011, as the last country in the region, the supreme law regulating restitution - The Law on Restitution of Taken Property and Compensation was carried. The research subject of this paper is the restitution and the manner of registration of the legal consequences in public books, using examples of restitution of construction and non-construction areas.

Keywords

• restitution
• nationalization
• agricultural land