Most documentation which survives from medieval times are legal and governmental records, financial accounts and property deeds.

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How can indigenous populations secure their claim to land without property deeds?

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At a center for registering real estate transactions in Shanghai's Xuhui district, staff said that there has been a pickup in the number of applications for property deeds from homebuyers in recent weeks.

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The buyer never received deeds to the property, which Gunter did not own.

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If the school later lost its contract (funding agreement) with the government, the deeds to the property would then automatically be transferred to the Department for Education.

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One of their investments is with a developer who needed 12 years to track down the hundreds of deeds for a property outside Mumbai, where he's building a residential, commercial and office project.

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In many cases they or their heirs still hold the title deeds, even though the property has been seized by Turkish-Cypriots, developed or, in some cases, sold to foreigners.

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