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Abstracts or lodgement forms and journals are records of the formal lodgement of instruments (documents) in the title system.
Examples include transfer of ownership, mortgages.
To order a copy or view an original of an abstract or journal, you will need the specific record reference. This will appear on a title record beside a memorial (a brief note). For example, ‘12345 Transfer to S. Smith’.
Abstract or lodgement form example
Abstracts, or lodgement forms, were a pre-printed form, typed or handwritten, that provided an inventory of the dealings affecting a particular title. They were bound into books.
Journal example
Journals were compiled from 1871 as a daily record of all instruments received for registration, listed in the order in which they were received at a specified office.
The manual volumes were later replaced with a computerised journal. Landonline now provides the ongoing record of lodgement of instruments.
Some of the earlier sequences of journals are held at Archives offices.
