In our final week of the course, we examine the significant role that modern land title registration systems play in property systems and examine issues related to the idefeasibility of registered interests in Aboriginal Title lands in to land titles clarification in African Nova Scotian communities.
Learning Objectives
Learning objectives are statements about the skills, knowledge and attitudes learners will acquire or develop when they complete this lesson.
By the end of this week, you should be able to:
- Identify a describe the core principle of idefeasibility in modern land title systems.
- Analyze the relationship between Aboriginal Title and land title registration.
- Engage with the history of land title clarification--its purposes and effects--in African Nova Scotian Communities under the Land Titles Clarification Act
We will complete our study of Property this year on the topic of land title registration systems by examining two interrelated issues. Building from our study of Aboriginal Title in the past two weeks, we’ll discuss the principle of “indefeasible title” as the bedrock of modern Torrens title registration systems and link this to issues of conflict and reconciliation between Aboriginal Title and third-party fee simple interests. We’ll then extend this introduction to indefeasibility to explore what happens when someone perpetrates a fraud in the transfer of title.
Finally, we will look to the ongoing development and challenges related to the formalization and clarification of land titles in African Nova Scotian communities that have been and continue to be denied title as a manifestation of systemic racism.
Weekly Problem: Indefeasible Title
After you have read through the background for this week's lesson above, your next step is to review the weekly problem.
In our final week of the course we connect some different threads around legal issues of land title registration, indefeasibility and clarification.