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Afghanistan
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Albania
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Algeria
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Andorra
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Angola
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Antigua
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Land
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Land
Adjudication Act 1975
Registered
Land Act 1975
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Argentina
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Armenia
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Australia
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Austria
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Azerbaijan
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Bahamas
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Deeds
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Registration
of Records Act 1928
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Laws
LUPAP
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Bahrain
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Bangladesh
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Title
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Transfer
of Property Act 1882
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Freehold
and leasehold formal private tenures; widespread informality and insecurity
of tenure.
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Registration
Act 1908
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Barbados
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Mixed
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Land
Registration Act 1988
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LR
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Land
registration (following 1925 legislation and reforms in England and Wales); sporadic conversion
(still ongoing) from deeds registration.
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Land
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Belarus
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Belgium
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Belize
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Mixed
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Land
Adjudication Act 1992
Registered
Land Act 1992
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Laws
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Deeds
registration, converting to land registration by systematic adjudication
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Benin
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Bermuda
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None
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LTO
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Private
conveyancing with voluntary registration of deeds. Proposed introduction of
registration of land
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Bhutan
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Bolivia
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Bosnia Herzegovina
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Botswana
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Brazil
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British
Virgin Is.
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Land
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Registered
Land Ordinance Cap.229
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Introduced
by systematic land adjudication between 1970-73
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Brunei
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Bulgaria
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Burkina
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Burundi
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Cambodia
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Land
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The
Land Law 2001
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LMAP
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Currently
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Cameroon
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Canada
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Cape Verdi
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Cayman
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Land
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Land
Adjudication Act 1971
Registered
Land Law 1971
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CAR
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Chad
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Chile
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China
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Colombia
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Comoros
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Congo
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Congo DR
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Costa Rica
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Croatia
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Cuba
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Cyprus
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Czech
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Denmark
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Djibouti
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Dominica
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Dominican Republic
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East Timor
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Ecuador
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Egypt
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El Salvador
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England
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Land
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Land
Registration Act 2002
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HMLR
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30%
of land still held by registered deed
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Eq
Guinea
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Eritrea
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Estonia
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Ethiopia
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Mixed
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Civil
Code 1960
(Regional
land administration laws)
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Different
systems in different regions and urban and rural areas
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Fiji
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Finland
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France
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Gabon
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Gambia
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Georgia
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Germany
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Ghana
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Mixed
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Land
Registry Act
Land
Title Registration Law 1986
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LAP
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Notice/priority deeds registration being replaced by compulsory
sporadic first registration of title
in Greater Accra and Kumasi
regions (Kenya-Lagos model)
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Greece
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Grenada
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Guatemala
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Guinea
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Guinea-Bissau
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Guyana
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Mixed
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Land
Registry Act 1959
Registration
of Deeds Act
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Land
registration (hybrid model) and deeds registration (Dutch system)
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Haiti
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Honduras
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Hong Kong
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Deeds
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Land Registration Ordinance 1844
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Hungary
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Iceland
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India
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Indonesia
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Iran
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Iraq
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Ireland
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Israel
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Italy
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Ivory Coast
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Jamaica
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Mixed
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Registration
of Titles Act 1889
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Laws
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About
half the country is covered by the Torrens
system; the other half is informal or has deeds.
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Japan
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Jordan
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Kazakhstan
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Kenya
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Mixed
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Land
Adjudication Act 1968
Registered
Land Act 1968
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Kiribati
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Korea North
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Korea South
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Kuwait
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Kyrgyzstan
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Laos
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Latvia
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Lebanon
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Lesotho
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Liberia
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Libya
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Liechtenstein
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Lithuania
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Luxembourg
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Macedonia
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Madagascar
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Malawi
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Mixed
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Registered
Land Act 1967
Adjudication
of Title Act 1971
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Land
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Land
registration; deeds registration; customary tenure (Land Act)
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Malaysia
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Maldives
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Mali
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Malta
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Marshall Is
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Mauritania
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Mauritius
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Mexico
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Micronesia
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Moldova
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Monaco
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Mongolia
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Morocco
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Mozambique
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Myanmar
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Namibia
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Nauru
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Nepal
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Netherlands
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New Zealand
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Nicaragua
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Niger
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Nigeria
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Norway
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Oman
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Pakistan
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Palau
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Panama
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PNG
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Paraguay
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Peru
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Philippines
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Poland
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Portugal
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Qatar
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Romania
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Russia
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Rwanda
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St
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St Lucia
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St Vincent
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San Marino
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Sao
Tome & P
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Saudi Arabia
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Scotland
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Mixed
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Land
Registration Act 1979
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RoS
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Title
registration replacing deeds registration on transaction
RoT practice book
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Senegal
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Seychelles
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Sierra Leone
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Singapore
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Title
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Land
Titles Ordinance 1956
Land
Titles Act 1970
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Torrens system
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Slovakia
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Slovenia
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Solomon
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Somalia
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South Africa
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Spain
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Sri Lanka
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Sudan
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Suriname
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Swaziland
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Deeds
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Deeds
Registry Act
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SGD
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Registration
and cadastral systems are based on South African system and laws
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Sweden
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Switzerland
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Syria
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Taiwan
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Tajikistan
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Tanzania
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Thailand
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Togo
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Tonga
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Trinidad
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Mixed
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Deeds
Registration Act 1856
Real
Property Ordinance 1892
Land Adjudication Act 2000
Registration of Titles to Land Act 2000
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Laws
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Dual
deed and title (Torrens) registration
system; however, much land remains unregistered and there are many informal
transactions. New legislation (not yet in force) and a project to adjudicate
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Tunisia
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Turkey
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Turkmenistan
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Tuvalu
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Uganda
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Mixed
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Registration
of Titles Act 1924
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Based
on the Victoria (Australia) Transfer of Land Act
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Ukraine
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UAE
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United Kingdom
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United States
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Uruguay
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Uzbekistan
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Vanuatu
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Vatican City
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Venezuela
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Vietnam
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Western Samoa
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Yemen
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Yugoslavia
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Zambia
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Zimbabwe
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