Land registration and title security in the digital age : new horizons for Torrens / edited by David Grinlinton and Rod Thomas.

Abingdon, Oxfordshire : Routledge, 2020.

1st edition

90035

Land titles -- Registration and transfer -- Technological innovations -- Congresses.

Torrens system -- Technological innovations -- Congresses.

Part I: Land title security: recent developments and current issues

1. Title guarantee or title indefeasibility?

2. Fraud and torrens

3. In personam claims: developments and thoughts

4. Indefeasibility of title: law reform in Scotland and New Zealand

5. Recent developments in the torrens system in Australia

6. Reform of the New Zealand Land Transfer Act

7. The new fraud test and manifest injustice

8. Knocking at the compensation door: what might a deprived owner expect under the Land Transfer Act 2017?

9. The registrar's powers in the digital age

10. Making personal obligations binding: covenants in gross and encumbrances under New Zealand's new Land Transfer Act

Part II: Automation of land registration systems

11. Automation, the Land Registration Act (England and Wales) and the future

12. Automation of a torrens register: an Australian perspective

13. The development and current position of electronic conveyancing in Ireland

14. Automation of the New Zealand torrens register: practitioner abuse, risk and liability

Part III: Cross-cutting issues and emerging challenges

15. Are land registers becoming online intermediary platforms of land data?

16. Privatisation, the consensus algorithms of blockchains, and land titling in Australia: where are we now, and where are we going?

17. Judicial interpretation of torrens registered documents

18. Indigenous land rights and land registration systems: Māori and the Land Transfer Act 2017

19. Managing property law risk: the role of private insurance

20. Land registration in England and Wales: problems, solutions and missed opportunities.

This book examines the current state of, and emerging issues in relation to, the Torrens and other systems of land registration, and the process of automation of land registration systems in jurisdictions where this is occurring worldwide. It analyses the impacts of advances in digital technology in this area and includes contributions from of a number of experts and leaders in this subject from a number of jurisdictions. While it has an Australasian bias, there are important chapters outlining current challenges and developments in Scotland, England and Wales, Ireland, and the Netherlands. The book will be relevant to those engaged in land registration and conveyancing processes, including, but not limited to, property law practitioners and conveyancers, academics in this field, government and public policy experts, law and property students, and IT and IP experts, especially those working on developing automated land registration systems. - Publisher's website.

Includes papers presented at a conference "New Horizons for Torrens: Current reforms, emerging issues" held in August 2018 the Auckland University Law School"--ECIP introduction.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

9780367211776

xl, 398 p. : ill. ; 26 cm