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Deeds registration is a land registration system in common law jurisdictions. It is replaced by Torrens title in most of these jurisdictions now, although a few of them, like most of the United States, still maintain such system. Ireland, Hong Kong and the Canadian provinces of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick have both systems with the Torrens system gradually superseding the older system. In the Canadian province of Ontario, electronic registration led to Ontario's version of Torrens title covering almost all land, but the past deeds registration still governs some issues.〔(Ontario Land Registration Reform Act ) See John R. Wood, ''Understanding Electronic Registration: Rights of Way and Property Rights Generally'', Carswell, (2014) 38 R.P.R. (5th) 4.〕 In contrast of Torrens title system in which basically the one who registered in a land registry as owner of a piece or parcel of land has an indefeasible title of the land, deeds registration system is merely a registration of all important instruments related to that land. In order to establish one's title to the land, a person (or usually their purchaser's attorney) will have to ascertain, for example: *all the title documents are properly executed; *"a chain of title" is established, i.e. the proper ownerships from the granting of the land from the government to the present owner; *there are no encumbrances on the land that probably will harm the title of the land. ==Duty to give and show good title== Since, in contrast to the Torrens title system, the registry is merely a record of all instruments related to the land, the "owner" as shown on the land registry record (or common known as "land search record" in Hong Kong) does not necessarily mean that he has a "good title", which means a title that is not defeasible or potentially defeasible. In a sale and purchase of land, a vendor is required to show a "good title" to the purchaser. Since the land search record is not conclusive, it leads to problems when a vendor has to prove his title, in particular when the land is old or involves multiple encumbrances. This may lead to litigation if the parties cannot agree on whether a good title is shown. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「deeds registration」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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