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| | Dealing in Land |
 | | This system is similar in a number of ways to the registered land system in the United Kingdom and to the Australian Torrens System (invented by Sir Robert R. Torrens, an Australian who on the 27th of January, 1858, introduced a bill in South Australia which later became in Australia The Real Property Act). |
 | | Total dispensation with the repeated need to trace title for forty to sixty years or to the root, which was often an expensive, tedious and inconclusive method, and the substitution for it of documents and plans kept in a public registry which reveal all the facts, rights and encumbrances (except for overriding interests, as defined). |
 | | The Torrens system has been constantly refined and, since its inception, has been adopted in many countries throughout the world in one form or another. |
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