The law of the land : the advent of the Torrens system in Canada /

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How was it that the Torrens system, a mid-nineteenth-century reform of land titles registration from distant South Australia, gradually replaced the inherited Anglo-Canadian common law system of land registration? In The Law of the Land, Greg Taylor traces the spread of the Torrens system, from its...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Taylor, Greg
Corporate Author: Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Toronto [Ont.] : Published for the Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History by University of Toronto Press, ©2008
Series:Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History.
Subjects:
Torrens system > Canada > History.
Land titles > Registration and transfer > Canada > History.
Système Torrens > Canada > Histoire.
Titres de propriété > Immatriculation et transfert > Canada > Histoire.
LAW > Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Humor.
Land titles > Registration and transfer.
Torrens system.
Canada.
Electronic books.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The Torrens system : an outline
  • The invention of the Torrens system
  • Vancouver Island : the second Torrens jurisdiction in the world
  • British Columbia
  • The Canada Land Law Amendment Association
  • Ontario
  • Saskatchewan, Alberta, and the North-West Territories
  • Manitoba
  • Quebec, the Maritimes, Newfoundland and Labrador
  • Concluding remarks.

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