The register's certificate was not evidence of title.

It should perhaps be pointed out once again that even registration affords only prima facie evidence of title.

Possessory freehold title - there is no documentary evidence of title (e.g. lost title deeds).

Even before the introduction of the Law Society's Protocol, it was becoming common practice for evidence of title to be supplied before contracts were exchanged.

It is our earliest public record, the foundation document of the national archives and a legal document that is still valid as evidence of title to land.

A registered stock certificate is normally only evidence of title, and a record of the true holders of the shares will appear in the stockholder's register of the corporation.

Under the new system, delivery of the evidence of title is always necessary as part of the original package supplied by the seller's conveyancer at the commencement of the transaction.

For choses in action the donor must hand over such documents as constitute "the essential indicia or evidence of title, possession or production which entitles the possessor to the money or property purported to be given."

Land registration generally describes systems by which matters concerning ownership, possession or other rights in land can be recorded (usually with a government agency or department) to provide evidence of title, facilitate transactions and to prevent unlawful disposal.

Hypothecation, or "trust receipts" are relatively uncommon forms of security interest whereby the underlying assets are pledged, not by delivery of the assets as in a conventional pledge, but by delivery of a document or other evidence of title.

The U.S. companies involved buy title insurance to obtain the security of a U.S. insurer backing up the evidence of title that they receive from the other country's land registration system, and payment of legal defense costs if the title is challenged.

Some boards have made it a procedural requirement in their regulations that evidence of title to a property be produced in support of the application for permanent transfer, where the existing licence holder's consent is not forthcoming, or where there are conflicting applications by prospective transferees.