Lord Halsbury and the solicitors do not appear to agree
as to the method of facilitating the transfer of land. The Lord Chancellor is understood to have prepared a scheme based upon registration ; but the Incorporated Law Society do not like that idea at all. They carried, on Wednesday, an amendment declaring that registration would not cheapen transfer ; but they did not put forward any substantive:proposal of their own. We gather, however, from the report in the Times, that they would prefer either a shortening of title or an Act declaring realty to be personalty. Their opposition, if it is serious, may prove formidable in the House of Commons, in spite of the immense advantage which a Tory Government has in passing such measures. The Tories, who hardly like them, are too well disciplined to resist, and the Liberals think them all steps in the right direction,—the easier sale of land.
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