Deeds, Titles, and Changing Concepts of Land Rights
Colonial Innovations and Their Impact on Social Thought
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Beschreibung
This book explores the history of public land tenure records, which first began in colonial Massachusetts as English settlers and Native Americans tried to resolve differing ideas about rights to land in the seventeenth century. In South Australia, a similar method of state certification of land ownership arose in the nineteenth century, through Torrens system title registration – a process that would be widely adopted in British and American colonies as a particularly effective way of guaranteeing absolute ('fee simple') ownership over indigenous peoples’ land. This book explores the similarities between these two record systems, highlighting how similar settlement patterns and religious beliefs in both places focused attention on recording land tenure, and illustrating how these record systems encouraged new ways of thinking about rights to and on land.
This book explores the history of public land tenure records, which first began in colonial Massachusetts as English settlers and Native Americans tried to resolve differing ideas about rights to land in the seventeenth century. In South Australia, a similar method of state certification of land ownership arose in the nineteenth century, through Torrens system title registration – a process that would be widely adopted in British and American colonies as a particularly effective way of guaranteeing absolute ('fee simple') ownership over indigenous peoples’ land. This book explores the similarities between these two record systems, highlighting how similar settlement patterns and religious beliefs in both places focused attention on recording land tenure, and illustrating how these record systems encouraged new ways of thinking about rights to and on land.
Explores the history of public land tenure records, which first emerged in colonial Massachusetts in the seventeenth century Compares similar conditions in Massachusetts and nineteenth-century South Australia, where the Torrens system of title registration emerged Illustrates how the development of record systems encouraged new ways of thinking about rights to land
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David Ress
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Deed Recordation Land Ownership Land Tenure Torrens system property rights settler colonialism settler society history of South Australia Colonial Massachusetts