Download or read book The Torrens System written by Arnold Guyot Cameron and published by General Books. This book was released on 2012-02 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: m It has been asserted by the opponents of the Torrens Law in all old countries that it was not applicable to their country, although it might have ad- Universal adapt- . ability of the vantages for younger countries such as Torrens idea Australia or Canada. This is amazing in view of the adaptability of a law which is the habeas corpus of land ownership and the protection of the rights of the individual in land possession. In the case of Great Britain, it might have been impossible to establish a complete system of land registration in the British Isles, because of British unwillingness to accept or to adapt ideas taken from Continental nations. But the success achieved by the Land Registration Laws in British colonies made the mother country willing to take from them the best points of their systems, adjusted to meet English conditions. It is one of the strong points of the Torrens idea of simplified land registration that it has shown extraordinary power of welding with the differing fac- Report of sir, . . C. Fortescue- tors to be found in various sections of the Brickdaie globe. No statement of these facts shows this better than the report of Sir C. Fortescue-Brickdale, Registrar of the Land Registry of England, made to the British Government. He says: ? The examples collected include such great estates as the ancestral domains of the Bohemian nobility jorrens Law (among whom are to be found some of the larg- Jf8, .1? est landowners of Europe), subject to thestrictest entails, carrying political privileges of the highest importance, and especially registered in immense separate volumes of the provincial capital; they also include (by way of contrast) the tiny subdivisions of the peasant proprietors of the Rhine Provinces, where the principles and pr...