The Land Registry

133 The Real Estate Cadastre The theme of this thesis is the Real Estate Cadastre of the Czech Republic. Land record has almost a thousand-year tradition in our country. A demand of publicity and foreseeability of legal relations to immovables and first of all the tax purposes were the stimuli of its establishment. The aim of this thesis is to characterize the contemporary evidence of immovables, to point out the important social task, which the Real Estate Cadastre fulfils, and to describe its keeping and updating. The thesis consists of six chapters. The introduction focuses on the definition of a land record. It has been used as an universal term for number of evidence instruments that have fulfilled various functions and have adapted for public demand. Chapter 2 dwells on the system development of the evidence instruments concretely. Present form of the Real Estate Cadastre comes out from the connection of two developmental branches of land records - land cadastres and public registers. Most of their existence they functioned separately side-by-side and served for different purposes. Land cadastre was an instrument of tax policy. It contained a list of area and land capability as a trustworthy basis for just tax assessment. Public registers performed a protective function in relation to registered real..