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Land Titles and Encumbrances Stir Irish Reform Debate
The piece surveys land transfer faults under Irish law, noting heavy stamp duties on conveyances, and how encumbrances and judgments clog sales. It traces how Queen Anne registration and subsequent acts bred perpetual liens, leading to costly litigation, receiverships, and ruined estates. It closes with remedies by Professor Hearn for freer land use, a general land register, and wholesale reform of entail, trusts, taxation, and ejectment laws.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kay
Senior
Ireland
Real Property Commissioners
Audley
George II
Master of the Rolls
Court of Chancery
Rolls Court
Napier
Pim
Sadleir
Dr. Longfield
Poor-law Committee
Robert Peel
House of Commons
R. Peel
America
M‘culloch
Europe
Spain
Mediterranean
Hearn
Professor Hearn