Indiana Law Journal Volume 63 Issue 1 Article 2 Winter 1987 Land Title Registration: An English Solution to an American Problem C. Dent Bostick Vanderbilt University Follow this and additional works at: https://www.repository.law.indiana.edu/ilj Part of the Property Law and Real Estate Commons Recommended Citation Bostick, C. Dent (1987) "Land Title Registration: An English Solution to an American Problem," Indiana Law Journal: Vol. 63 : Iss. 1 , Article 2. Available at: https://www.repository.law.indiana.edu/ilj/vol63/iss1/2 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Law School Journals at Digital Repository @ Maurer Law. It has been accepted for inclusion in Indiana Law Journal by an authorized editor of Digital Repository @ Maurer Law. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. Land Title Registration: An English Solution to an American Problem C. DENT BOSnCK* INTRODUCTION** Some fifty years ago, respected American legal scholars engaged in an extended debate on the virtues and the feasibility of land title registration., *Professor of Law, Vanderbilt University. J.D., 1958, Mercer University Law School; B.A., 1952, Mercer University. The author acknowledges with gratitude the research assistance of Ms. Darlene Marsh and Ms. Marcia McMurray, second year law students at Vanderbilt Law School. **The author wishes to thank Mrs. Maggie Richards and Mr. Stuart Bridge, Lecturers in Law at the University of Leeds for their helpful comments on the preparation of this Article. I. Prompted by the failure of three of the four title insurance companies operating in New York City, the Real Estate Board of New York procured a grant from the Carnegie Corporation to the New York Law Society which engaged Professor Richard R.