Registration of Title to Land

In view of the interest which has been aroused in the past few years throughout the United States in the subject of the registration of title to land, and the consideration paid to the question at the World's Real Estate Congress, held during the World's Fair at Chicago, it seems not unfitting to call to the attention of the Bar some of the salient points of the system which is generally known as the Torrens System of registration.However, the writer would hesitate, because of his superficial knowledge of the subject, to endeavor to add anything to what has been so ably said by the advocates of title registration, did he not feel that the time has come for every progressive lawyer to examine carefully the merits or disadvantages of a system which, if adopted, will effect the most radical changes in the laws governing land titles.That the Bar of this, and sister States, will shortly be compelled to consider the question, can hardly be doubted when we realize that it has already been the subject of consideration in California, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New York, Ohio, Tennessee, and possibly other States, in many of which commissions or committees, appointed for the purpose, have 605