Land Registration in Illinois (Classic Reprint)

This volume is an attempt to lay before my fellow members of the bar in Illinois and elsewhere a necessarily brief discussion of the principles of registration of title, a method of dealing with land titles, although now somewhat novel in the United States, yet certain, in course of time, to come into common use. It has been many times stated that the legal profession is too slow in the reform of our land laws in the direction of registration of titles. My own experience has been to the contrary. What has been accomplished in I llinois, Massachusetts, Ohio and California has been done in most part by members of our profession. To that profession may well be left the task of working out, through new registration of title acts and amendments found needed by actual experience, the welfare of the land owner, and a safer, simpler, more expeditious and inexpensive method of dealing with land. Upon investigation of the subject, it will be found impossible to resist the conviction that the public good requires compulsory registration of title. This was the result in England, in 1897, after some thirty years of parliamentary discussion. How this benefit can be obtained by our own land owners is an economic problem soon to come before the bar of the United States. Chicago, March,
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