A trending video on social media a few weeks ago showed an elderly woman asking well-wishers to help her fend off relatives who were intent on grabbing her piece of land.
In her lamentations, she claimed that the ladies who were threatening her dismissed her registration of the title deed document as a mere piece of paper.
Two principles that govern the application of registration of title documents - the mirror and the curtain principles - trash any claims that the document could be just a piece of paper.
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