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The law of the land : the advent of the Torrens system in Canada / [by] Greg Taylor.
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Publication details:
Toronto : Published for the Osgoode Society for Canadian legal history by University of Toronto Press, 2008.
Record id:
66320
Subject:
Torrens system -- Canada -- History.
Land titles -- Registration and transfer -- Canada -- History.
Contents:
1. The Torrens system : an outline
The spread of the Torrens system
The need for reform
The Torrens system
2. The invention of the Torrens system
Man and idea
A thousand fathers
Vancouver Island : the second Torrens Jurisdiction in the world
Background
Establishing the Australian link
Was it really the Torrens system?
Public response to the Torrens system
4. British Columbia
The Mainland Colony
The ordinance of 1870
5. The Canada Land Law Amendment Association
Pre-history of the Association : Torrens becomes known in Central Canada
Personalities
Beginnings
The Association puts Torrens on the public agenda
Later history of the Association
6. Ontario
English or Australian model?
Introduction of the Torrens principle
Slow beginning
Gradual extension and conquest of Ontario
Some concluding thoughts
7. Saskatchewan, Alberta, and the North-West Territories
Historical background
Introduction of the Torrens system
Trouble in paradise I : early problems with the Torrens system
Trouble in paradise II : the registrar at Calgary
The Torrens system in Saskatchewan and Alberta after 1905
8. Manitoba
The mission of June 1883
The Manitoba Land Law Amendment Association
Success
Failure
Success!
9. Quebec, the Maritimes, and Newfoundland and Labrador
10. Concluding remarks.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9780802099136
Phys. description:
x, 221 p. ; 24 cm