Law of the Land by Greg Taylor PAPERBACK 9781487552138

Law of the Land\nby Greg Taylor\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Greg Taylor\nTitle: Law of the Land\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Legal history\nPublisher: University of Toronto Press\nPublication year: 2022\nISBN-13: 9781487552138\nISBN-10: 1487552130\nRRP: \u00A322.99\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\n\nHow was it that the Torrens system, a mid-nineteenth-century reform of land titles registration from distant South Australia, gradually replaced the inherited Anglo-Canadian common law system of land registration? In The Law of the Land, Greg Taylor traces the spread of the Torrens system, from its arrival in the far-flung outpost of 1860s Victoria, British Columbia, right up to twenty-first century Ontario.\nExamining the peculiarity of how this system of land reform sw.