Registration of Title to Land Throughout the Empire e-bog

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. This book treats registration of title throughout the Empire as my Australian Torrens System treated registration of title in Australasia - that it, it is an attempt to deal with the subject as a whole and point out likenesses and differences in the various separate systems.<br><br>Since the Australian Torrens System was published (in 1905), registration of title has made fair progress, though intensively rather than in extent of area. The only areas to which it has been newly extended since then seem to be the protectorates of East Africa and Uganda. The greatest intensive growth has taken place in Canada - particularly Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta. There the Torrens System is embodied in a mass of statute and case law that promises to equal in bulk the mass of Australasian registration law. Both statute and case law are still growing - rapidly in Canada and more slowly in Australasia. In Australasia there has been little really new legislation since 1905, though the registration statutes have been consolidated afresh in Victoria and New Zealand, and consolidations have also been enacted in Fiji and Papua. Some important cases have, however, been decided in the Australian Courts, such as Fink v. Robertson (4 C. L. R. 864), Barry v. Heider (19 C. L. R. 197), and West v. Read (13 S. R. (N.S.W.) 575.) As to other parts of the Empire, in the Federated Malay States the statutes have been consolidated and important cases decided in the local courts and on appeal to the Privy Council.<br><br>Mr. Thom's Canadian Torrens System (published in 1912) has enabled the system, as established in Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, and North-West Territories, to be compared with the Australian system on which it is modelled. Since 1912 the registration statutes in Manitoba and Saskatchewan have been consolidated afresh, and so too in Ontario. Judging by the references to the Australian Torrens System&q