Ontario Land Titles Procedural Guide

Dean Tudor is a journalism professor at the Ryerson Polytechnical
Institute and founding editor of the CBRA.

Both of these books were prepared by the Ontario Ministry of Consumer and Commercial Relations. This province has a mixture of two systems: land titles and land registration. Though the two systems do not overlap, the province is changing over from “titles” to “registration.” Meanwhile both books are needed for the sleuth or the title searcher. Each book shows how the system works, for the user and the specialist, and each is very difficult to get through in one reading. The land titles book, for example, covers transfers, sales, foreclosure, execution of instruments, power of attorney, Family Law Reform Act, affidavits, leases, easements, covenants, bankruptcy, plans, and so forth — all that one really needs to know, along with the relevant forms. The same type of material is in the registration book.

This is the type of book that International Self-Counsel Press does better for the lay reader, or for just plain easy explanations. These two CCH books are tough going, but they are vitally necessary for the practitioner.