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Please click here to return to Year 5 Topics > Hübbe also had a hand in drafting the bill for the Real Property Act of 1858. This Act established a central state register of land transactions. The system was later copied by other states and by the land brokers in England.
 * **__Torrens land title system__** 1857
 * Robert Torrens instituted the Torrens title system devised by Ulrich Hübbe, a Doctor of Law from Kiel University. Hübbe explained the land title system that had been operating in parts of Germany for six hundred years.

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