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Legal Definition and Related Resources of Land Registration

The Land Registry, London, was established by by the Land Registry Act, 1862. The Land Transfer Act, 1875, provided for the voluntary registration of title to freeholds and leaseholds, and for the compulsory registration of writs, deeds, notices and charges relating to land.
Registers of deeds and wills relating to land have been kept in Middlesex, Yorkshire and the Bedford Level. Under the Land Transfer Act, 1897, the registration of title to land was made compulsory for the city and county of London.
In the Land Registration Act, 1925, there are provisions for the extension of the compulsory area, and the law relating to land registration is amended and codified.
Instruments which do not affect the legal estate need not be registered. (Law of Property Act, 1925, s. 11.)

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See Also

• Law Enforcement Officer
• Police Work
• Law Enforcement Agency

Further Reading

• land registration in A Dictionary of Law Enforcement (Oxford University Press)
• land registration in the Encyclopedia of Law Enforcement
• A Treatise on the Police of the Metropolis