Section 2: Registration of immovable property and its effects

The property to be registered is first bounded. However, any owner, in agreement with the adjoining owners, may waive the bounding. The boundary markers belong to the owner whose property is bounded.

Registration gives rise to the drawing up of a title deed by the registrar of immovable property. The title deed attests, where necessary, to the status of owner. In the courts, it constitutes the starting point for rights to the immovable property at the time of registration. Special titles may be drawn up, at the request of the interested parties, after the immovable property has been registered.

Any amendment to the title subsequent to registration shall only be evidence of the rights mentioned therein until proven otherwise.

Title deeds and their registrations retain the rights they record as long as they have not been cancelled or amended and are proof to third parties that the person named therein is vested with the rights mentioned therein.

If the registrar rejects the application for registration or considers that it cannot be acted upon, the registrar forwards it to the court. The same applies if there are oppositions or applications for registration which have not been discharged in the authentic form or to which the applicant refuses to acquiesce. The court may order the registration, in whole or in part, of immovables and the registration of real rights…