ABSTRACT
Nomadic tribes have no real need to measure land and the division of land only becomes a necessity when society has reached a level of settled agrarian development (Richeson, 1966). As societies develop, the systems they adapt for dividing the land, registering those divisions and implementing the resulting agrarian reform emerge. As a result of these factors, cadastre and agrarian reform have different historical roots and a different evolution in the both Great Britain and in Austria; the systems evolving to satisfy the national requirements of regulating the ownership of land and producing sufficient quantities of food to feed the population.
