If you don’t have your Certificate of Title, and you have a current mortgage over your property, then it is highly likely that your mortgagee (bank or non-bank lender) holds you Certificate of Title. If you still have the Contract of Sale from your purchase of the property you may have a copy of the Certificate of Title in the old Section 32 Vendors Statement. What if you don’t have a copy of your Certificate of Title and you don’t have any other record of your Volume and Folio numbers? Of course, in reality the process is much more involved than this, and there are numerous exceptions to the concept of ownership through registration. This is a very basic view of how the system of Torrens Title operates in Victoria. Each time ownership of the property changes, the “duplicate” is sent to the Land Titles Office, and it is endorsed with the name of the new owner, and the original kept at the Land Titles Office is updated in the same way. This becomes known as the “duplicate”, and it also shows the names of the most recent owner. In order to show that they own land, people are given a copy of their page in the book. To find out who owns the land, you would simply turn over the page, and see whose name was last added to the page. If you wanted to identify a particular block of land, you would find out its Volume and Folio number, and use these numbers to look up the relevant page. Of course, such a book would have many volumes and many pages (folios). The last three digits of the folio number.Imagine a huge book kept at the Land Titles Office, in which every block of land in the State of Victoria has its own page. Some acreage parcels were apart of the old subdivisions and has the code ‘001’ or ‘002’. For example, 006 within a section is the 6th subdivision recorded within the section. Every subdivision within a section is given a consecutive number. If your home is an un-subdivided property, you should see ‘000’ in your report. The last two digits are the section number, and this number ranges from 1 to 36, which there existing 36 sections in each township. Note: The first digit of the range is omitted and only the last number is used in the folio number. The range starts at 35 in the far-reaching West and changes every 6 miles going East until it hits 42. The second digit in this section is the range number. Note: The first number of the township (5) is omitted and only the second number is used in the folio number. In Miami-Dade county, the township starts with 51 and changes every 6 miles going South until township 59. Township runs from North to South in ascending order. This indicates the Township, Range and Section based on the Public Land Survey System (PLSS). The next four digits of the folio number. Code 30 indicates properties in Miami-Dade County not within the municipality this is known as “unincorporated” territory. The first two digits of the folio number, as listed on the adjoining chart. Specifically, the folio number is formatted as a 13 digit number (99-999), and is broken down into: Municipality, Township, Range, Section, Subdivision and Parcel Identifier. In Miami-Dade county, the folio number is utilized.
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