64 GERMANY - AGRICUI,TURAL ECONOMY IN GENERAL 



§ 3. Final provisions. 



Certain other cases are anticipated, and there are certain definitions 

 of methods of applying the law and of cases in wliich the preceding provi- 

 sions cannot be applied. It will be useful to define the category of interested 

 persons. 



This includes the communes, the proprietors, the mortgagees of land, 

 those having a right to rents, and persons having a hereditar}'- right of usu- 

 fruct or exploitation, especially where mines are concerned. It includes 

 also persons who have a right afiirmed or guaranteed by registration in the 

 land book, and those who have any right in the real estate to be redistri- 

 buted or any right burdening it, the leaseholders or farmers who occupy 

 it in consequence of a farming or other lease, and, in the case of a forced 

 award or administration, the pursuing creditor. Interested persons whose 

 right has not been registered in the land book must establish the credibi- 

 lity of such right at the request of a proprietor, the commission or the au- 

 thority before whom the procedings for redistribution are pending. They 

 are otherwise excluded from participation in the procedings. 



The commission for redistribution has the right to require the ofiice 

 of the land book to rectify the land book by registering a property, and to 

 oblige its proprietor, on pain of a fine, to produce the documents it deems 

 necessary to prove the right of proprietorship. 



Persons who take part in the war (article 2 of the law of 4 August 

 1914) or who leave the countrj^ because of the war and do not return to it, 

 may, if the^^ have no representative, have one assigned to them for the safe- 

 guarding of their rights by the Higher President of the province. 



They must if possible be informed of the nomination of their represen- 

 tative, which they may revoke, nominating another. Special costs inci- 

 dent to the nomination of a representative are included among costs of 

 procedure. 



If there be a judiciary dispute as to the right by which participation in 

 procedure is claimed, both parties to the dispute are deemed to be " inte- 

 rested ". 



The case is anticipated of a necessity to suspend proceedings for redis- 

 tribution when circumstances, notably those connected with claims for 

 indemnities, cause fears that these proceedings will be financially unpro- 

 fitable or involve the commune in disproportionate expense, or when these 

 proceedings appear superfluous. 



§ zj. The security for state loans for the reconstruction of build- 

 ings DESTROYED DURING THE COURSE OF MILITARY OPERATIOMS. 



This matter is regulated bj'- the ordinance of i I\ray 1916 which we have 

 already noticed. For its purpose the State grants redeemable loans, bear- 

 ing no interest,, secured by the entry in the laud book of a guaranteeing 



