Archiving, land registration and updating procedures : the case of Addis Ababa City
Akalewold, Eskinder & Muleme Reshid
The cadastral survey and records of rights should provide a true and exact description of the legal situation of such rights in land and properties at any moment. The surveying task should also give due attention to registering plots occupied or used illegally before the survey. The tasks in this regard would be to facilitate control over acquisition of new rights. The sizes, functions and boundaries of individual land parcels and properties of any sort should be identified, traced, quantified and used for volatile analytical purposes. Land registration takes place when a land certificate is issued for a given area. It is a process of recording information on a person who holds land, and if it is in lease, period of time, total amount, first payment, land use, parcel number, file folder code, issue date, etc. The Debter, which serves like a land certificate, is given to the rightful owner of a unit of property. Debter was introduced during the Derg regime and since then it has been applied as a legal document. Debter focuses more on a unit of building than land. Before it was revised, Debter didnnt contain a site plan to show the exact measurement of land, but it mentions the size of land in figures and its neighborss names from various directions. Following its revision, the building given is shown by shading it in a site plan; the land size is also indicated, without showing the clear boundary on that defined land.
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