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In 1987, he returned to the Land Titles Office and in 1993 he was appointed the Titles Office Surveyor and Chief Draughtsman. Under Section 4 of the Surveyors Act 1978, he also assumed the position of Deputy Chair of the Surveyors Board of Victoria and continued in that role for eleven years until the new Surveyors Registration Board of ...
For a long time it went by a number of names, such as New Public Offices, the Lands Titles Office, and Engineering Supply Department, after its main occupants. [ 1 ] In 1979 it was renamed as the Torrens Building, after Sir Robert Richard Torrens and the system of lands title registration introduced by him to South Australia and the world, the ...
The Land Title and Survey Authority of British Columbia (LTSA) is a publicly accountable, statutory corporation which operates and administers the land title and survey systems in British Columbia, Canada. The LTSA delivers secure land titles through timely, efficient registration of land title interests and survey records; these services are ...
The Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning (DELWP) was a government department in Victoria, Australia.. Commencing operation in January 2015, the DELWP was created in the aftermath of the 2014 state election, with Premier Daniel Andrews announcing that the previous Department of Environment and Primary Industries (DEPI) would be renamed.
The Board of Land and Works was a government authority in Victoria, Australia.It was established by an act of parliament in 1857, with the aim of consolidating and coordinating the administration of public lands and public works.
Torrens title is a land registration and land transfer system in which a state creates and maintains a register of land holdings, which serves as the conclusive evidence (termed "indefeasibility") of title of the person recorded on the register as the proprietor (owner), and of all other interests recorded on the register.
Legal documents (such as grants, titles or transfers) that describe a particular parcel of land do so by reference to the county, parish, township (if there is one), section, crown allotment number, and certified plan number [3] — for example: "County of Dalhousie, Parish of Lauriston, being 2 hectares, being Crown Allotment 2, Section 40 ...
Torrens was born in Cork, Ireland, on 31 May 1812. [4] [5] He was the only surviving son [6] of Robert Torrens FRS and his first wife Charity Herbert née Chute. [7]His father had this marriage nullified and in 1819 married again, to Esther Serle, an English heiress, and had his three children rebaptised to give them a form of legitimacy, [2] Robert Richard's birth year being reset to 1814.