170 Requirements As To Production Of Title Deeds

• 170 On an application for the registration of title in favour of an owner in fee simple, a mortgagee, or other person entitled by right to the possession of documents of title, the registrar must require the person applying to be registered as owner in fee simple, as mortgagee or otherwise, to produce all title deeds of the land to which the registration is intended to refer unless their nonproduction is satisfactorily explained to the registrar by means of an affidavit.

1979-219-167.