A Torrens Certificate ensures undisputed ownership of real property for the titleholder, removing the need for deed recording and simplifying property transactions.

Cook County Recorder Carol Moseley Braun is urging the legislature to allow the county to abolish an antiquated 93-year-old system of registering real estate that the average person doesn`t even know ...

Cook County Recorder Carol Moseley Braun is urging the legislature to allow the county to abolish an antiquated 93-year-old system of registering real estate that the average person doesn`t even know ...

There’s a big, old, falling-apart book on the counter of Franklin County Recorder Danny O’Connor’s Downtown office. For years — decades, really — title searchers and others formally submitting ...

The purpose of the Torrens system is to facilitate transactions in land. It does so by creating a conclusive land-register, which can be absolutely relied on to provide accurate title information. It ...