You have to understand that the man who registers in the Crown deed is legal owner.
"The Greater Power"
Harold Bindloss W. Herbert Dunton
Every morning the simple registers, which the people put up along the creeks and sloughs, showed an alarming rise, and they feared that if the rain continued the earth itself would become liquid at last, and resolve itself into a vast sea without shores.
"The Mystery of the Locks"
Edgar Watson Howe
All three have this in common with the activities of Mind that they strive for the same result; they aim at recording feeling as science registers facts.
"A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.)"
Mrs. Sutherland Orr