O'Melveny, Stuart - The Romance of California Land Titles

Los Angeles, Title Insurance and Trust Company, 1928. First Edition. First edition; 7 x 5; pp. 3-23; light-brown, pictorial wraps decorated in blue; illustrated with numerous drawings and from photographs; mild wear around margins and a few very minor spots; in very good condition. An uncommon piece of California history, the booklet discussed the business of proving the legality of title to a property from the perspective of the state's unique circumstances and complexities of land claims and exchanges, dating back to the Spanish and Mexican land grants in the late-18th- and early-19th centuries (Grenier, J. (1993). In Growing Together for a Century: Southern California and the Title Insurance and Trust Company). In November of 1886, the Abstract and Title Insurance Company would be founded - the first company in Los Angeles to issue abstracts and certificates of titles. Its rival, the Los Angeles Abstract Company would be established a year later. After the land bust of the late 1880s, the two companies would merge to form the Title Insurance and Trust Company in 1893. Very good .

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