B.2.2 The guarantee of use and enjoyment by freeing land of encumbrances in Honduras and the 2001 Undertaking 180. The Court notes that there is no explicit concept of “clearing the title” “or freeing the land of encumbrances” in relation to indigenous territories under the laws of Honduras. 223 However, the undertaking signed on December 13, 2001 (supra paras. 113 and 114), 224 refers to the scope of this obligation as follows: “The State is obliged to clear the title granted to the Punta Piedra community by paying the inhabitants of the village of Rio Miel for the improvements made so that the Garifuna community [of Punta Piedra] can exercise the right of full ownership accorded to it by the ancestral documentation and granted to it by the National Agrarian Institute. […] The State, through the National Agrarian Institute, must diligently seek a piece of land where the compensated families may be relocated; also, through the competent institutions, every effort must be made to support the right to housing, health, education, water and other benefits that ensures the appropriate conditions for the relocated population, and so that once and for all the Punta Piedra community is able to exercise its ownership over the lands claimed.” 181. Based on the above, the Court reiterates the State’s obligation to ensure the effective use and enjoyment of the right to indigenous and tribal property. To this end, it may adopt different measures including, clearing the title. For the purposes of this case, the Court understands that clearing the title or freeing the land of encumbrances consists of a process that results in the State’s obligation to remove any type of interference on the territory in question. In particular, this process is implemented by the legitimate owner having full possession and, if appropriate and as agreed, by the Constitution, articles 63 and 329, available at: http://www.constitucioncolombia.com/ indice.php; Decree 2164 (1995), available at: http://www.incoder.gov.co/documentos/A%C3%91O_2015/ MODIFICACION%20 WEB%202015/NORMOGRAMA/Decreto%202164%20de%201995%20%20Reglamento%20de%20Tierras%2 0para%20Ind%C3%ADgenas.pdf; Costa Rica: Law 6172 (1977), Indigenous Peoples Act, available at: http://www.wipo.int/wipolex/es/text.jsp?file_id=221055; Ecuador: 2008 Constitution of Ecuador, article 57.4, available at: http://www.asambleanacional.gov.ec/documentos/ constitucion_de_bolsillo.pdf; Paraguay: 1992 National Constitution of Paraguay, article 64, available at: http://www.oas.org/juridico/ spanish/par_res3.htm; Peru: Legislative Decree No. 295 of 1984, Peruvian Civil Code, available at: http://spij.minjus.gob.pe/CLP/contenidos.dll/demo/coleccion00000.htm/tomo00006.htm/sumilla00008.htm? f=templates$fn=document-frame.htm$3.0#JD_ccsctu; Decree Law No. 22175 (1978), Native Communities and Agrarian Development of the Jungle and the Edge of the Jungle Act, available at: http://www.iadb.org/Research/legislacionindigena/leyn/docs/PERU-Decreto-Ley-22175-78-ley-Comunidades -Nativas-.pdf; Venezuela: 1999 Constitution of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, article 119, available at: http://www.cne.gob.ve/web/normativa_electoral/constitucion/titulo3.php#art119, and “2005 Organic Law of Indigenous Peoples and Communities” available at: http://www.unes.edu.ve/bibliotecaunes/custodia /leyes/ley34.pdf. Cf. Case of the Kuna Indigenous People of Madungandí and the Emberá Indigenous People of Bayano and their members, supra, para. 142. 223 The Honduran Civil Code defines freeing of encumbrances in cases of sales as follows: (a) art. 1620 provides that the vendor is obliged to deliver the object sold free of encumbrances; (b) art. 1631 establishes that, based on the freeing of encumbrances referred to in article 1620, the vendor shall be liable for any hidden defects or flaws in the item sold to a good faith purchaser. Nevertheless, this mechanism is regulated in the Honduran Civil Code only in relation to: (a) the action for recovery or ownership (art. 879); (b) the distribution of assets (arts. 1257.2 and 1258); (c) donations (arts. 1329 and 1330); (d) sales, in cases of both eviction and hidden defects or liens (arts. 1620, 1631-1633, 1635, 1637, 1638, 1641, 1643, 1644 and 1652); (e) transmission of credits and other intangible assets (art. 1672), and (f) leases (arts. 1683, 1696 and1700); there is no reference to freeing indigenous lands of encumbrances. 224 In this regard, see also Executive Decision No. 035-2001 of August 28, 2001. 54

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