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  1. Library Resource
    Conference Papers & Reports
    October, 1970
    United Kingdom, Africa

    It is universally recognized that Registration of Title is superior

    to the other, systems mainly.because the method of recording used In Registration of Title does not depend so much on documents and human beings which are; subject to movement;,and mistaken identity, as on the parcels of:land affected, which are immovable, indestructible and precisely definable.

  2. Library Resource
    Conference Papers & Reports
    October, 1970
    United Kingdom, Africa

    This paper focused on land registration. The distribution and use of land are of vital importance, and it is not surprising, therefore, that land records are a matter of great concern in most countries.

  3. Library Resource
    Conference Papers & Reports
    November, 1970
    Ethiopia

    Of the nation's 122.2 million hectares of total area, 84.1 million hectares of land and 12.1 million hectares of water and water courses comprise the potentially productive cultivable land and water resources of the nation. At present, only 10.4 per cent of the total land area i.e. 12.9 million hectares is put under cultivation of which 9 to 91/2 million hectares have actually "been planted and harvested. Agriculture, the dominant sector of the country's economy is not only a goldmine in terms of potential but also a real source of wealth.

  4. Library Resource
    Conference Papers & Reports
    November, 1970
    Africa

    The introduction of registration of title is certainly in our present state of knowledge the best method of remedying the uncertainty of customary land law. The advantages of^registration of title both to private landowners and to Governments and its superiority over other systems of recording rights in land,i.e. private registration of deeds., are discussed in paper given in this Seminar and I will not elaborate them here.

  5. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    October, 1970
    Africa

    It is not possible to prepare a satisfactory register of properties and to guarantee title to those properties unless the properties have been positively identified i.e. unless it is possible to identify the boundaries of the properties with certainty. It is for this reason that in most modern systems of Registration of Title the Registrar requires that each property shall be unambiguously defined by representing its boundaries on a registry index map before recording the ownership of the property in the official register.

  6. Library Resource
    Conference Papers & Reports
    November, 1970
    Ghana

    The original and primary owners of lands in. Ghana are the stools or skins. Families and individuals do own lands, the original titles to which are derived from stools or skins- Before 1957, all lands of what was called the Northern Territories were held in trust for the chiefs of the Northern Territories try the Governor whilst Ashanti lands, having being occupied as a result of conquest, were British Crown lands.

  7. Library Resource
    Conference Papers & Reports
    March, 1971
    Africa

    The development of the Czechoslovak cadastre can be followed for hundreds of years, because its roots go as far back as the middle Ages. In the written records the area, land sort (cultivation, culture), value class, cadastral output, tenant and his habitation are given for each land. The establishment of cadastre always needs -that there should be a real conception on keeping it up-to-date.

  8. Library Resource
    Conference Papers & Reports
    October, 1970
    Africa

    The discoveries of science and new technologies it has not yet always proved possible to do so. therefore continue to use resources, which might otherwise be put to more productive purposes, -on curing those who contract these diseases and in trying to prevents or at least minimize the chances of, their recurrence. The conditions known as 'fragmentation' and 'multiple ownership when the Reach severe, proportions can fairly be described; as diseases of land tenure".

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