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noun
Title to real estate provided by a government register (as opposed to the old common law system of deeds or chain of title).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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History
Named for Robert Torrens (1814-1884), Premier of South Australia who introduced the first such system there in 1858.
Across languages
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