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BEGISTRATION AND TRANSFER OF LAND.

(From the Auckland Newt). < A fitly devised measure for the regia- ! tration of titles to land and for facilitating 1 its transfer is/pTO/pfithe'^reat? wants of 5 tie Colony." This minTstaTrs promise us ' in the Governor's speech, and they can be at no loss for a proper model of such .a measure, if they only consult the statute books of South. Ajisbalia, Tasmania, and ;. Victoria." Ineach of those Colonies the •;. registration of title, as opposed to the | registration of deeds and other instruments, has been tried -for the last eight to • ten years, intone l more,. in the others less, . with admirable success, and without any '' such interference with the business of the legal profession as was at one time imagined. When this question was first mooted by Mr B. B. Torrens, then Collector of , Customs, but afterwards Colonial ; Treasurer, in South Australia, and now ; member of the British Parliament for ! Cambridge, it was not only denounced by ■ the profession as the product ofavision- ' ary's brain, but it was fearlessly stated ; that it would, if put to the test of actual : experience, lead to disaster and ruin. Strangely enough, however, the report of : the Boyal Commission on the registration of title made its appearance almost contemporaneously with Mr Torrens V pro- | iposal, so much so, indeed, that it found its way to Sonth Australia before his Bill • was draft©!, and proved that some of the most eminent men in the legal profession at homey were as great visionaries as himself. And as to the disaster and ruin that were to follow all attempts to reduce . his proposal to practice* those are as distant as ever.. ; . : So in fact, was the success of Mr Torrenai's measure from the outset, that the Legislatures of Tasmania and Victoria were shortly afterwards forced to adopt it, the former in its entirety, and the latter with only some modifications in the machinery for working it. A great deal of rubbish was, no doubt, talked about a man dealing with his land as he would with ids interest in a ship, about carrying his title to land in his pocket, and passing it as he would do a bank note. > But there is an end to all Ibis, where the : thing! is in jiae/ and the principle is understood. All now know that tfiejr title to land simply i consists in having their names on the register, and that all they have to do, when they wish to transfer it, is to consent to the substitution of the names of others for their own. This the purchaser! can get done at the cost of a few shillings, and the land then becomes theirs. In the ease of defective titles, some risk hail of course,; to be run. But these are cured in time, and they then become indefeasible. Oh all these points, however, ministers will doubtless be prepared with the fullest information wnen tsey bring forward their measure, and we hope to see every assistance afforded tbemin their endeavors to carry it. The longer such a measure i» deferred, the more difficult will . it be in the working. "With the example of the other Colonies before us, however, there are no difficulties now that may not be readily overcome. . Their experience is both a safe guide and an authentic precedent for us.

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Southland Times, Issue 1282, 22 July 1870, Page 3

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BEGISTRATION AND TRANSFER OF LAND. Southland Times, Issue 1282, 22 July 1870, Page 3

BEGISTRATION AND TRANSFER OF LAND. Southland Times, Issue 1282, 22 July 1870, Page 3

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