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WHILE researching a recent piece on the exploitation of young people in the UK through sex-for-rent advertisements, I discovered that the Britain has no official, accurate or complete land registry.
It is important to note that in England and Wales the Crown is the proprietor of all land which is tenured through either freeholds or leaseholds. Of the land in the UK, between 30 per cent to 50 per cent of the Crown tenancies are unknown and a vast chunk of the country’s acreage is held by nobility in what is referred to as hidden coalitions.
After 50 years of legal squabbling, the Land Registration Act of 1925 finally came into existence. Until this point in time, there had been deed registries in most counties in the country.
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