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id	eprints-19487
recordtype	eprints
institution	SOAS, University of London
collection	SOAS Research Online
language	English
language_search	English
topic	K Law (General)
description	The transformation in prevailing conceptualizations of property and the drive to render land as fungible as possible, the desire to commoditize land that had been pursued in earnest since the seventeenth century in England, was realized in the space of the settler colony decades before it would be implemented in the United Kingdom. The author explores how the commodity logic of abstraction that subtended new property logics during this time, reflected in the Torrens system of title by registration, was accompanied by a racial logic of abstraction that rendered the land of the Native, or Savage vacant and ripe for appropriation. By way of conclusion, the author speculates on the ways in which the imposition of English property law in the settler colony influenced the development of modern property law in England.
format	Journal Article
author	Bhandar, Brenna
author_facet	Bhandar, Brenna
authorStr	Bhandar, Brenna
author_letter	Bhandar, Brenna
title	Title By Registration: instituting modern property law and creating racial value in the settler colony
publisher	Wiley
publishDate	2015
url	https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/19487/