Towards a New Alberta Land Titles Act, Report for Discussion 8

This Report for Discussion accompanies the report of the Joint Land Titles Committee entitled Renovating the Foundation: Proposals for a Model Land Recording and Registration Act for the Provinces and Territories of Canada. The core of the Joint Committee’s report is a Model Land Recording and Registration Act. In this Report for Discussion we discuss some existing Alberta law and make some comparisons between it and the Model Act. We do so only to illuminate […]

August 2, 1990

The Operation of the Unsecured Creditors’ Remedies System in Alberta, Research Paper 16

A plaintiff who has obtained a monetary judgement as a result of a court case, but who has not yet received that money, is known as a “judgement creditor.” This report is a survey of: whether judgement creditors made use of enforcement mechanisms to obtain their money; which remedies were used frequently, and which ones infrequently; how the remedies that were used operated, and how far they were carried; and how successful the remedy process […]

March 3, 1986

Statute of Frauds and Related Legislation, Final Report 44

This report examines the provisions of the Statue of Frauds and the Guarantees Acknowledgment Act, an Alberta statute. Where the provisions of these Acts are still useful, the report recommends that it be retained and reformed, where they are not useful that they be abolished. The Statue of Frauds was enacted by the English Parliament in 1677 to prevent false claims being accepted by the courts by requiring that a number of kinds of contracts […]

June 1, 1985

Statute of Frauds and Related Legislation, Research Paper 12

This report examines the provisions of the Statue of Frauds and the Guarantees Acknowledgment Act, an Alberta statute. Where the provisions of these Acts are still useful, the report recommends that it be retained and reformed, where they are not useful that they be abolished. The Statue of Frauds was enacted by the English Parliament in 1677 to prevent false claims being accepted by the courts by requiring that a number of kinds of contracts and dispositions of interest in […]

March 4, 1979

Collateral Land Mortgages as Security for the Purchase of Chattels: Effect of Sections 106 and 107 of the Land Titles Act

January 3, 1975

Land Titles Project 61: Implied Covenants of Transferee of Land Subject to Mortgage of Encumbrance

An Examination of the Effect of s. 16 of the Conditional Sales Act on the Principle of Indefeasibility of a Certificate of Title Under the Land Titles Act

The Legal History of Alberta III: The Latter Territorial Period 1886-1905

Land Titles Project Section 2(11): The Definition of “Land”

January 1, 1975

Land Ownership Rights; Law and Land: An Overview

January 18, 1974