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Torrens|ˈtɒrənz| The name of Sir Robert Torrens (1814–84), first Premier of South Australia, used attrib. in Torrens system, a system of land title registration devised by him, and adopted in Australia and elsewhere outside the U.K.
1863R. R. Torrens (title) Transfer of land by ‘registration of title’, as now in operation in Australia under the ‘Torrens system’. 1905J. E. Hogg (title) The Australian Torrens system. Ibid. p. v, The system of land transfer and registration known as the Torrens system has now been in operation in Australasia more than forty-six years. 1976S. R. Simpson Land Law & Registration v. 68 Outside Great Britain the system of registering title..is widely known as the ‘Torrens system’, for it was Sir Robert Torrens who in 1858 introduced registration of title into South Australia, the first jurisdiction (at least of jurisdictions using English land law) to establish such a system. |