I have spent the last few months going over several dozen Declarations of Patents that have been filed, looking at all the various citations in them to put together my war chest of citations.
Most of them quote citations readily found in the messages from this forum, and the information in other Suijuris areas
However, more than 90% of them (including the file in the downloads area here), also contain a version of the following citation:
"The existing system of land transfer is a long and tedious process involving the observance of many formalities and technicalities, a failure to observe any one of which may defeat title, even where these have been traced to its source, the purchaser must, but at his peril, there always being, in spite of the utmost care and expenditure, the possibility that his title may turn out bad:" Yealde, Torrens System 209.
The spelling of the evident author ranges from Yealde, to Yeakel, to Yeakell, with many misspelling Torrens as Torrence. Some have the 209 as a page number using abbriviations ranging from p, to pg, to pp. They all seem to need it, for the Torrens system of Land Registration did have its hayday for a while in the US, though most states have now abandoned it as too hard on their court dockets and resources, and it is still very much alive in England, Austrailia and Canada, but I cannot for the life of me find a single reference to a book called "Torrens System" with a page number of 1 let alone 209, nor a "Torrens System 209", nor any book about Torrens with the cited derivitives of the authors.
Any one else know what they are in reality trying to cite?