Rights That Cross the Boundary Line: Constituting Easements Over Dominican Property No parcel is an island, legally speaking. Land depends on its neighbors, for access to the road, for the passage of water and power, for drainage that follows gravity rather than boundaries, for the view that gives a hillside property its price. The easement […]
Neutral Hands: The Judicial Sequestration of Disputed Dominican Property Some property disputes have a problem more urgent than who is right: who holds the asset while the question is decided. The co-heir occupying the estate’s best property and collecting its rents through years of partition litigation; the contested company premises run by one faction; the […]
The Real Estate System’s Escape Valve: The Review for Fraud Against Dominican Registrations The Dominican real estate property registration system makes a hard promise: registered rights, once consolidated, are shielded by the State’s guarantee, and the world can rely on the certificate. Hard promises need escape valves, and this is the system’s most dramatic one: […]
A Second Look at the Registrar’s Work: The Review for Material Error Registries are human institutions processing inhuman volumes, and Dominican law equips the system with proportionate self-correction: alongside the general rectification mechanisms, the review for material error allows registry acts to be revisited when what went wrong is clerical, the slip of transcription, the […]
When the Record Itself Is Wrong: The Rectification of Material Errors at the Title Registry The procedure for the rectification of material errors at the title registy addresses cases where the record itself contains the error. A name misspelled in the inscription, a digit slipped in an area or a boundary, an identity number transposed […]
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