Torrens system

American  

noun

1. (in Australia, England, Canada, certain states of the U.S., etc.) a system of registration of land titles in which the titles are settled consequent to establishment and validation by a legal proceeding, designed chiefly to make title insurance unnecessary and to facilitate transfers.

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Etymology

Origin of Torrens system

Named after Sir Robert Torrens (1814–84), British administrator in Australia

Example Sentences

In fact, China's failure to adopt a modern currency system is perhaps even less a sinning against light than our failure to adopt the Torrens system of registering land titles.

From Where Half The World Is Waking Up The Old and the New in Japan, China, the Philippines, and India, Reported With Especial Reference to American Conditions by Poe, Clarence Hamilton

Another reform carried out by Vogel had been the adoption of the Torrens system of land transfer.

From The Long White Cloud by Reeves, William Pember