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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. 1893. Excerpt:... Land Transfer Reform. ANNUAL ADDRESS BY THE PRESIDENT, HON. CHARLES F. LIBBV. Gentlemen of the Maine State Bar Association: The trend of modern thought in many directions wns indicated by the public discussions at the different Congresses of professional men, held at Chicago during the World's Columbian Exhibition, and the attention of members of our own profession was undoubtedly arrested by the prominence given at the Real Estate Congress, to what is known as the "Australian" or "Torrens" System of Registration of Titles. The discussions at that Congress certainly emphasized the fact that the present method of transferring title to real estate is unsatisfactory and burdensome, on account of the uncertainty, expense and delay connected with the transfer. When we consider how great these difficulties are in the large centres of population in this country, it is not strange that people are beginning to inquire whether some better method has not been or cannot be found. There is reason to believe that a remedy has been found, and has stood the test of many years' trial in English-speaking communities. It has been the subject of investigation by parliamentary and legislative committees, and the literature of the subject is to be found in so many legal magazines and other periodicals that the general features of the system can hardly have escaped the attention of any student in our profession. And yet I am inclined to think that the details of that system have been investigated by but comparatively few of our number. While I may seem to be treating a rather trite subject in undertaking to discuss the merits of the so called Torrens System, I can but believe that the matter is of sufficient importance to the profession and to the public, to justify me in occup...