!!!Grundbuch

Land Register (in Austrian Law: Grundbuch), public register, kept by 
the courts, in which landed property and the interests therein are 
recorded. Main legal source of the land register law 
("Grundbuchgesetz") is the law of 1955 ("Allgemeines 
Grundbuch-Gesetz"), other regulations are included in the relevant 
laws of 1930 ("Grundbuch-Anlegungsgesetz") and 1980 
("Grundbuch-Umstellungsgesetz"), and in the general civil code 
("Allgemeines Buergergesetzbuch"). The general land register is kept 
by the district courts (186 court offices and 2,400 authorised 
information offices).

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The land register consists of the main register ("Hauptbuch") and the 
collection of documents; the land registry file ("Grundbuchsmappe"), 
the record of landowners and landed properties contain auxiliary 
information. In the main register, every landed property has its own 
entry (organised by entry numbers, "Einlagezahl", "EZ"), which consist 
of 3 folios: folio A ("A-Blatt", property particulars), folio B 
("B-Blatt", property owner(s)), folio C ("C-Blatt (encumbrances on the 
property). The collection of documents contains all the documents 
which served as basis for the registration of a landed property.

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Acquisition, transfer, restriction and cancellation of the registered 
rights are only possible by means of an entry in the land register 
("Intabulatationsprinzip", principle of "registration"). When gaining 
land ownership, registration is the prerequisite for the acquisition 
of rights in a land. Everybody has the right to inspect the land 
register ("Oeffentlichkeitsprinzip", principle of public access). The 
land register enjoys irrebuttable presumption of accuracy, i.e. 
everyone can rely on the accuracy and completeness of the register 
entries ("materielles Publizitaetsprinzip", principle of material 
disclosure).

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As well as the general land register, there are also the special 
registers: maps and tables of former landed properties of the 
nobility, mining, railway and water registers.

!Literature
E. Feil, Oesterreichisches Grundbuchsrecht, 1972; H. 
Hofmeister, Die Grundsaetze des Liegenschaftserwerbes, 1977.


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