Legal tip 370. Land Registry to fight corruption
Friday, October 15, 2010 @ 9:29 AM
As many of you may know now, Land Registry in Spain has a very different role to the UK one.
This institution in Spain is the ultimate guarantoor of status of ownership regarding every real estate in Spain in a sense that makes that evey purchaser has the legal protection of his rights by Law if he purchased according to what is described in the Land Registry, whatever the reality is. It is the principle of Publicity of the Land Registry. We have some posts describing these important Land Registry principles
You can read on them by clicking here and here
Castan, a Magistrate of our Supreme Court has recently advocates for strengthening the role of the registry to fight corruption and make obligatory for the administration to communicate to the Land Registry every infringement of planning order.
This way, if the Administration did not provide these facts to the Land Registry, the purchased who bought guided by the protection that Land Registry offers, could demand liability to the Public Administration.
Gibraltar from La Linea by Mark Stanley at Flickr.com