Land Registration in Palestine: A Table Showing Land Registration Fees Collected from 1920 to 1945, British Mandate: A Survey of Palestine: Volume I - Page 242. Chapter VIII: Land: Section 3:

CHAPTER VIII.

49. Registration of title based on land settlement has been warmly welcomed by all sections of the population, whose only criticism is that progress has not been more rapid. For the first time a definite record of title based on accurate survev and a clear record of other registerable rights have been established. The existence of unreclaimed or other forms of State Domain has been disclosed. The feeling of security which derives from a clear record of good title has prompted development in areas where stagnation had long prevailed. In settled villages there is a marked absence of those breaches of the peace which previously occurred with alarming frequency and which had their origin in land disputes.

50. Land Registry fees collected and the number of transactions completed from the 1st October, 1920, to the 31st December, 1945, are as follows :-

Revenue
YEAR Revenue Transactions
1920 (October- 4,928 469
December]
1921 38,913 3,361
1922 56,973 5,117
1923 41,834 6,514
1924 41,222 7,113
1925 113,165 10,761
1926 82,998 11,821
1927 57,233 9,655
1928 65,720 11,643
1929 68,247 11,290
1930 69,650 18,315
1931 74,245 14,265
1932 97,876 18,392
1938 206,124 28,293
lfl34 830,481 36,555
1985 455,146 49,138
1936 219,687 86,101
1937 208,828 42,009
1938 142,881 80,574
1939 131,560 20,025
1940 180,673 28,267
1941 197,401 80,134
1942 877 806 37,061
1948 709,592 41,688
1944 668,336 86,884
1945 1,215,539 44,251
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TOTALS £P. 5,855,958 584,191


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