LAND MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
LAND MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
LAND TITLE HISTORY
Egypt and Mesopotamia - Real estate practices flourished to a high degree of perfection.
Greece two hundred B.C. - Record found in Tenos (Contains some fifty entries of land transfers, Standardized form, Had contract of lease)
United States, sixteen twenty-seven - Early recorded land transactions. Record of the Plymouth Colony
The purpose of recording was not only to afford the right of priority to the purchaser.
Principal features found in the recording statutes: (Acknowledgment of the deed before the governor or other duly authorized officials as a pre-requisite to recording. Copying of the whole deed therein, Priority of title to depend upon priority of date of recording)
Philippines - King of Spain proclaimed full ownership of the Philippines lands upon colonization - Acquisition was either by purchase or by the various modes of land grant from the Spanish Authority.
EXEMPTIONS: he and his predecessors-in-interest had been in possession of the land from time immemorial, Church property.
LAND TITLE
LAND TITLE
It refers to that upon which ownership is based. Evidence of the right of the owner or the extent of his interest, and by which means he can maintain, control, and as a rule, assert the right to exclusive possession and enjoyment of the property.
All the elements that create the highest legal right to own, possess, use, control, enjoy, and dispose of real property or an inheritable right or interest in it. The right to, and the ownership of, property.