LAND TRANSFER LAWS OF AUSTRALASIA.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1903, 27 July 1888, Page 2

LAND TRANSFER LAWS OF AUSTRALASIA.

"We have also received from Mr Wilfred Badger a work entitled « The Land Transfer Laws of Australasia." Jn this book, we have an equally wellfinished work, forming a satisfactory twin publication with the " Licensing Laws " above named. It is a slightly thicker volume than its twin sister, but like that work bnilt on similar lines, comprising within " its strings " tho full text (with side notes) of the Land I Transfer or " Torrens' " Acts of the six colonies of JS'ew South Wales, New Zealand, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, and Victoria, each Act being with its forms fully indexed ; the whole being followed by a digest of 221 Land Transfer decisions ot the Supreme and Appeal Courts of the colonies touched by the work, carefully collated, referenced, cross referenced, and indexed. These cases are again alphabetically arranged and made more easy of reference, and aro followed by an index to plaintiffs and defendants, to defendants separately, and to abbreviated references. Mention should not bo omitted pf the valuable addition of Intercolonial sectional reference, in like manner as in I the " Licensing Laws," being alike ' indicative of the writer's system and methods.

The treatise on " The Torrens " or Land Transfer system of Conveyancing and Land Alienation " at the beginning of the volume is of real value as a history of the system. Mr Robert R. Torrens — ifterwards Sir E. It. Torrens is the acknowledged originator of the system. The " Txn-ren'e " system took its rise in South Australia when Sir B, R. Torrens first brought it under notice! The adoption of the scheme was a means of getting rid of tbat network of '• symbolism of needless intricacy " with its tons of parchment known as tho English conveyancing system.

r J he book like the one noticed above is pointed at the " Lyttelton Times " office and is gold for 15s, including postage to any part of New Zealand.