ABSTRACT
This chapter on administration, records, and titling has the most difficult task of marking out the fundamentals of a land system which is based on the idea of property rights. This chapter captures the flesh and bone of land law as it assesses the various provisions through which a system of creating and maintaining records of rights for land formalizes the legality of property rights. It observes how the legal understanding of land is limited by title and thus by the notion of property and that the system of records and titling is central to the functioning of such a system. In a fundamental sense, the chapter aims to tie the laws of land reform and land acquisition, for both function on the basis of the concepts of ownership of land and eminent domain of the state. While arguing that land records are meant to establish a formal relationship between a person and land, the chapter identifies some of the core difficulties associated with these laws. Since the laws of land administration are too diverse to be conceptualized broadly, it assesses, in particular, the Andhra–Telangana legal scenario to depict the problems that the law faces in its administration.
