An Analysis Of The Torrens System Of Conveying Land PDF Download

Excerpt from An Analysis of the Torrens System of Conveying Land: With References to the Torrens Statutes of Australia, England, Ireland, Canada and the United States; With an Appendix Containing the Original Torrens Act In 1903, the legislature of Illinois passed an act, with a referendum to the voters, providing for compulsory registration of titles in certain cases. When the question of the adoption of this act was before the voters in Cook County, a bitter controversy arose, and immediately afterward a book entitled "The Torrens System, Its Cost and Complexity," was published by the writer of this treatise. It was merely a brief and argument against that system, and gave little information concerning its principles and the statutes establishing it in different countries. While that book is on a par with most of the controversial writings in this country on the subject of title registration, it should not have been published. As a stockholder, director and officer of the Chicago Title and Trust Company for the past twenty years, the writer has been interested in the study of the Torrens system. This work is an attempt to analyze its principles, to set out its incidents, to compare the statutory provisions of Torrens acts in different countries, and to set forth and discuss the decisions which have been rendered under those acts. The labor has been done in a spirit of fairness to that great system of conveyancing, and much care has been taken to make correct statements of law and fact. In view of his interests, however, it is proper to subject any conclusions of the writer to any tests known to the reader. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.