Year: 2026
Type: article
Abstract: This book offers an interdisciplinary and critical analysis of the registration of rights, with the aim of moving beyond the traditional conception of the land registry as a purely procedural technical tool or a guarantee of contemporary property rights designed to promote land-backed credit. The volume argues that the land registry played a substantive role in the establishment of property rights and in the construction of the state. It is structured around three main strands: firstly, it addresses the historiography and methodology of property law in Spain and the conceptualisation of property as a legal mindset. Secondly, it adopts a comparative perspective that examines the transition of registration systems in colonial contexts and the evolution of principles such as good faith in Ibero-America. Finally, it analyses the current role of the land registry as a public service and its complexity within Spain’s multi-legislative state. The contributions demonstrate the need to move beyond the nineteenth-century limitations that confined the subject to private law, and position the land registry as a central and constitutive element of today’s legal and political reality.
Authors: Martinez Perez, Fernando, Serna-Vallejo, Margarita, Nogueroles Peiro, Nicolas, Bastias Saavedra, Manuel, DE FREITAS MACEDO, CAMILLA, Doubai Sanchez, Bolia, Fiocchi Malaspina, Elisabetta, Zarate Gonzalez, Santiago, Cacciavillani, Pamela Alejandra, GARCIA MARTINEZ, ANDRES, Font i Segura, Albert, PAREDES PEREZ, JOSE IGNACIO
Language: Spanish
Subfield: Law
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7167861884