SOBRE EL CATASTRO PARCELARIO: SU NECESIDAD Y FUNCIONES EN EL COMERCIO JURÍDICO Y LA URGENCIA DE SU CONEXIÓN CON EL REGISTRO DE LA PROPIEDAD.

Abstract

This study addresses the institution of the real-estate cadastre from its origins in antiquity to its present-day situation. There is an analysis of how, over that enormous interval of time, those in political power have always been interested in knowing the state's real wealth in terms of land, first and foremost in order to tax that wealth, be it urban or rural. The evolutionary process whereby the cadastre was put together in Spain was a slow and defective one, with frustrated attempts. The Act of 23 March 1906 and the regulation implementing the act were definitive and very important for the creation of the current Spanish cadastre. The regulation was the subject of study by Professor Candil Calvo, who came up with a cadastre system based on German law. In addition, as far back as the early 20th century, F. Candil saw that the cadastre needed to be coordinated with the property registry. However, Candil's ideas, laid out in his paper. «Necesidad del catastro parcelario», had to wait nearly a century to come true. At the present time, while the need to put together a real-estate cadastre is a reality, coordination between the institution of the cadastre and the property registry is still in the assembly phase.