Agrarian law

Agrarian law is the set of laws, rules and regulations that regulate the ownership and organization of rustic land, as well as agricultural exploitations, also known as rural law. This type of law has the task of regulating the activities and interests obtained through the exploitation of the land. It is also in charge of the study of agricultural production, the introduction of new technologies, the use of fertilizers and improved seeds. As well as herbicides, pesticides, and the various forms of association, in order to develop agricultural activities to increase productivity.

Its function is to resolve all agrarian conflicts arising from the application of special agrarian legislation (substantive rules), and especially those conflicts arising from the exercise of the essentially agrarian activity of production, or the related activities of transformation, industrialization and sale of agricultural products. This implies that the main delimiting criterion for the other procedural branches will be the conception of agrarian law and its main object: agrarian, agri-food and agri-environmental activity.

Agrarian law intervenes, for example, in possessory lawsuits in which one or more land workers or groups of land workers organized by the corresponding Institute are parties, claims for usurpation and damages of direct citation, as well as in possessory information on land used for agricultural or livestock purposes and actions related to leasing contracts or free loans of land.