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Record Nr.

UNINA9910427859903321

Autore

Ress David

Titolo

colonial innovations and their impact on social though, titles, and changing concepts of land rights : colonial innovations and their impact on social thought / / David Ress

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham, Switzerland : , : Palgrave Macmillan, , [2020]

©2020

ISBN

3-030-64191-0

Edizione

[1st ed. 2020.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (IX, 115 p.)

Collana

Palgrave pivot

Disciplina

333.3

Soggetti

Tinença de la terra - Gran Bretanya - Colònies

Land tenure

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Chapter 1. Introduction: Mr. Rowle Tries to Secure His Land -- Chapter 2. Massachusetts: Going to the Court House -- Chapter 3. Working It Out In Writing: The Evolving Language of Land Deeds -- Chapter 4. South Australia: Registration and The Urge For Good Order -- Chapter 5. Registration and The Conflict of Land Tenure Concepts -- Chapter 6. Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

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. .