Aleksa's Book Review: Land Tenure, Boundary Surveys

When the subject of land law is as ubiquitous as it is in land grab literature, it becomes necessary to read more about the underlying systems that make this stuff tick. How land gets occupied, does the occupation go away, and much else is examined in this dense and exacting tome - of course, I'd have it no other way.

Firstly, the matter of tenure is examined: when is land justly occupied by a tenant and how does it stay that way? The answer is that whatever legal system is around - decides. That actually extends to the aboriginal and traditional law of the Indians and Australian natives, meaning that the trades Europeans engaged in were underinformed at the least.

Further, the book goes into surveying and boundaries in property, and the difference between fiscal and geographic cadasters. It seems water is not nearly as stable a deliminator as we'd hoped - there exist thousands of regulations and interpretations about tidal levels, waves, and much else. Definitely a good contribution to the library of anybody interested in land.
8/10