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Malay Reservations and Malay Land Ownership in Semenyih and Ulu Semenyih Mukims Selangor

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 November 2008

P. K. Voon
P. K. Voon
Affiliation:
University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur
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Scant attention has been paid to the study of ownership of agricultural land in Peninsular Malaysia, and the dearth of research on this important topic is largely due to the lack of source materials and the difficulty of collecting such materials. A major source of information on land ownership is the land titles which are filed in the Registration of Titles Office (for lots of land exceeding 4 ha.) in the State capitals, and in the Land Office (for lots below 4 ha.) in the district capitals, and the potentiality of these records for geographic investigation has barely been tapped. The registration of land ownership in Peninsular Malaysia is based on the Torrens System which represents ‘a system of registration of transactions with interests in land whose declared object is, under Government authority, to establish and certify to the ownership of an absolute and indefeasible title to land and to simplify its transfer’. Under this system, land alienation involves cadastral surveys to delineate the boundaries of individual parcels of land, to each of which a non-recurring identification number is assigned. All details relating to the size, date of registration, land-use conditions, and transactions for each parcel of land are entered in the land registers.

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Modern Asian Studies , Volume 10 , Issue 4 , October 1976 , pp. 509 - 523
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1976

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