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land registry
noun
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Land Registry (United Kingdom)

Her Majesty's Land Registry is a non-ministerial department of the Government of the United Kingdom, created in 1862 to register the ownership of land and property in England and Wales. It reports to the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills.

The equivalent office in Scotland is the Registers of Scotland.

Land Registry (Hong Kong)

In Hong Kong, the Land Registry is a government department under the Development Bureau responsible for the administration of land registration. It also provides facilities for search of the Land Register and related records by the public and other government departments.

Usage examples of "land registry".

Westman said with a shrug, and the Land Registry Office inspector exhaled noisily.

I refer to the ownership of a parcel of land referred to in the Land Registry as SF90155.

Berg wiped his face with a linen handkerchief and opened the account book, spreading out several loose sheets of paper stamped with the golden seal of the Central Land Registry Office.