Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws (Volume 26) (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1916. Excerpt: ... UNIFORM LAND REGISTRATION ACT. AN ACT' To Provide For The Settlement, Registration, Transfer, And Assurance Of Titles To Land, And To Establish on Designate Courts Of Land Registration, With Jurisdiction For Said Purposes, And To Make Uniform The Laws Of The States Enacting The Same-Ac it enacted as follows: PART I. Preliminary Provisions. Section 1. Name of Act. This act may be cited as the Uniform Land Registration Act. 'Illinois and Colorado: "An act concerning land titles." Massachusetts and Washington: "An act relating to the registration and confirmation of titles to land." California: "An act for the certification of land titles and the simplification of the transfer of real estate." Minnesota: "An act concerning the registration of lands and the title thereto in the State of Minnesota." Mississippi and North Carolina: "An act to provide for the assurance and registration of land titles." New York: "An act in relation to registering titles to real property and facilitating and expediting its transfer." Oregon: "An act concerning land titles, creating the offices of registrars of titles, prescribing the duties of said offices, providing for the registration of title to real estate, prescribing the manner in which registration of title may be obtained and the rights accruing thereunder." California and Colorado are the only States in which the act has been attacked as unconstitutional on account of its title. In Robinson vs. Kerrigan, 151 Cal. 41 the court said: "The same criticism might be made of many acts on a general subject which have always been considered as valid.... If it were necessary to mention every subdivision of the general subject of an act in the title to the extent here claimed, our statutes would present a somewhat ludicrous appear...