Reasons & Proposalls for a Registry or Remembrancer of All Deeds..

1671. In Favor of a General Land Register Phillpott, Nicholas. Reasons & Proposalls for a Registry or Remembrancer of All Deeds and Incumbrances of Real Estates, To be had in Every County, Most Necessary and Advantageous, As Well for Sellers and Borrowers, As Purchasers and Lenders. To the Advance of Credit, And the General Good, Without Prejudice to Any Honest Minded Person. Most Humbly Offered to Consideration. Oxford: Printed by W. Hall, for Ric. Davis, 1671. [ii], 10 pp. Quarto (7-3/4" x 5-1/2"). Stab-stitched pamphlet bound in recent quarter speckled calf over marbled boards, gilt fillets and title to spine, bottom edge untrimmed. Boards slightly bowed, light rubbing to spine and joints, faint offsetting to endleaves. Light toning to text, occasional very light foxing and soiling, clean tear to fore-edge of last leaf not affecting text. $750. * Only edition. An early entry in the spirited and lengthy public debate in Great Britain over the establishment of a general register for titles and deeds. Though the idea was first proposed under Henry VIII, no such register would be created until the passage of the Land Registry Act in 1862, which established a registry of titles (but not deeds). The system created by the act was voluntary and largely ineffective; successive attempts at reform failed until the Land Registration Act of 1925. Phillpott argues that the register will reduce fraud and anticipates a number of objections to his proposals. OCLC locates 1 copy of this title in a law library (Harvard). Goldsmiths'-Kress Library of Economic Literature 1967. English Short-Title Catalogue R40103.