During the past ten years in the field of surveying and land management there has been increasing awareness of the importance of registration of property rights and exchange of cadastral data between nations. The need for information exchange has generated the need for standardized terminology and systems. In this research, focus has been laid on ISO standard approved in 2012, the Land Administration Domain Model and its possible future legal extension, the Legal Cadastral Domain Model. The study explores the real property rights in the Finnish cadastral system. It also shows how the registration of property rights has been handled in different times. The international models, namely the Land Administration Domain Model and the Legal Cadas...