Legal status of a property disclosed in land and mortgage registers should, by definition, be consistent with the actual legal status. Unfortunately, the historical factors associated both with the foundation of the present land registry as well as the land and mortgage registry system, particularly in south-eastern Poland, often result in the absence of this conformity. Changing the real estate designation associated with the transition from cadastral parcels into record parcels during the establishment of records in the seventies of the twentieth century, and leaving, with essentially no change, designations in land registers have caused, and still continue to cause, a considerable confusion when setting land and mortgage register in its present form, or during regulation of the legal status of a property. Additionally, this process is made difficult by enfranchisement of a large part of the land under the 1971 Act on the regulation of farm ownership.The article presents the main legal and technical issues related to the prep-aration of synchronization lists, as the documents necessary to make entries in land and mortgage registers, or to regulate legal status of a property. The article introduces ways to solve these problems, at the same time indicating shortcomings of the current ...
The concept of real estate legal status has not been explicitly defined by the legislator. Despite this, the literature took the view that this is generally the rights and restrictions assigned to the property. To determine legal status one should determine first the entities which has rights to the property. For the purpose of determining the legal status of real estate, mortgage registers are established in Poland. Unfortunately, at this moment, a large part of the properties, particularly in rural locations do not have established mortgage registers. In the absence of mortgage registers other documents showing ownership of the property may be land ownership acts. For agricultural properties, they are sometimes the only documents on the basis of which one can specify the entities to which it has rights in rem to real estate, they are also the basis for founding the mortgage register.In recent years the number of new mortgage registers increased significantly in real estate of rural areas. The basis for establishing the mortgage register in addition to the documents confirming the acquisition of rights is also data shown in the Land and Property Register, which are the basis for determination of the property. Due to the fact ...
