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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Land registration"”.
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Land registration in England and Slovakia - comparative study
… principles, functioning and effectiveness of the land registration systems in two EU member states - England and Slovakia. The comparative study aims to provide reflections “de lege ferenda” offering suggestions for statutory amendments. The thesis also examines the effect of land registration on …
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The law and practice of the Registered Land Act 1963 :a comparative study
… thesis is to determine whether the Registered Land Act 1963 of Kenya has established an effective system of law and practice governing titles to land registered under the Act. Several key issues are addressed. First, how effective has been the process of land adjudication which brings onto the …
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Data Capture Automation in the South African Deeds Registry using Optical Character Recognition (OCR)
The impact of apartheid on land registration is still evident within South Africa. The Deeds Registry is facing a current backlog in registering an estimated 900,000 title deeds. Providing formal ownership, through title, is seen as necessary for unlocking the 'dead capital’ of unregistered …
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Three essays on Brazil's deforestation control policies and their potential effects: Conflicts, Compliance, and Secondary forest recovery
… The first chapter provides causal evidence that land registration abates conflicts in Pará. The chapter discusses policy implications in three discussions, prospective deforestation control, potential agricultural growth, and livelihoods promotion within CAR and its related policies. The results …
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The fiction of adverse possession
Occupation of land by a squatter in England is seen as a wrong, and the squatter a trespasser. This is recognised as adverse possession and this doctrine has been established by iteration and reiteration over the long history of English land law with the sole intention of protecting the real …
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The Hollow Promise: 'Guarantee of Title' in Registered Land
The ‘guarantee of title’ obtained upon the registration of an estate in land is an oft-cited yet elusive concept. The term has become ubiquitous, yet with no unanimity as to its meaning. It is often recognised as a fundamental principle of the land registration system, yet the actual meaning of the …
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A blockchain-based land titles registry in Namibia
Land administration systems in many countries are vulnerable and lack transparency, which leads to fraud, delays, and significant costs, especially in developing countries like Namibia. This study aims to address these issues by proposing a blockchain-based land titles registry to preserve land …
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Party Wall Disputes: Legal Coherence and Dispute Management
… (i) Statutory rights (Access to Neighbouring Land Act 1992, Law Property Act 1925, Land Registration Act 2002, Human Rights Act 1998, Crossrail Act 2008 and the High-Speed Rail (London – West Midlands) & (West Midlands – Crewe) Acts 2017). (ii) Proprietary rights – easements (right of …
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Investigating the relationship between criminal trespass under section 144 of the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 and the doctrine of adverse possession: a comparative analysis of England & Wales and Canada
… comes into question over a significant piece of land or a residential property. <br/><br/>There has been little doctrinal research on the relationship between the criminal offence of squatting in residential buildings and the property doctrine of AP. This project applies a doctrinal approach in …
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Residential Real Estate Investment in Emerging Economies: The Case of Ghana
… documented in the records of the Ghana Land Valuation Board. The research presented in this thesis makes several contributions to knowledge and understanding of residential real estate markets in Ghana. First, and most fundamentally, it demonstrates that it is feasible to construct …
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A Framework for Land Information Management in Ghana
Land information management in Ghana, as in many developing countries, remains a practice monopolised by public sector land administration agencies, which are known for being inefficient in delivering services that satisfy the needs of citizens. Under this monopolised regime, landed property …
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Three Essays in Environmental and Land Economics
… 2018) and 5 billion acres (38%) of the world’s land area is farmland (FAO, 2020). Moreover, agriculture accounts for a significant portion of global deforestation, forest fragmentation, and habitat loss (Defries, Rudel, Uriarte, & Hansen, 2010; Rudel, Defries, Asner, & Laurance, 2009), while …
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An explorative case study of blockchain as a means to enhancing land registry governance to uphold property and land restitution in South Africa
Land ownership is one of the fundamental constitutional rights of every citizen in South Africa. The slow progress regarding land reform and security of tenure in the form of the transfer and registration of title deeds is arguably a failure of the State to uphold the Constitution of the Republic …