Modern civil law, based on the liberalism and individualism, has three major principles which are the absolutism of property, the private autonomy and the liability with fault. But the serious disparity between the rich and the poor, caused by the mo...
Modern civil law, based on the liberalism and individualism, has three major principles which are the absolutism of property, the private autonomy and the liability with fault. But the serious disparity between the rich and the poor, caused by the modern capitalism, has brought the strong demands for real equality and distributive justice. Therefore, new practical principles, which are the faithfulness, the transaction security and the public policy, come out with the highest principle of public welfare and old principles described above are modified. In dealing with the problems which belongs to the part of real right in civil law, it becomes influential to harmonize the security stitique based on the principle of announcement with the security dynamics, based on that of public faithfulness.
Korean current civil law makes it a rule to adopt the immovables registration as the policy of public announcement, but ignores the significance of public confidence. As a result, the transacting accidents are caused by the imperfectness of registration system and malinformation among transferees and not a few Transferees in good faith has been exploited. This treatise has focused on six causes of it.
First it is the transacting accidents caused by false recording. The problems of false recording can be divided as those of registration and system. The symposium, held by the Korea Society of Civil law on 31st August 1981, discussed a remedy notarizing the certificate of title when the registration of immovables property is applied. It is not proper in practice, as many prerequisites are required to realize this policy. On the other hand, the opposite opinion has its own merit in some ways, but it is too conservative to regulate the troubles. Therefore a new remedy coincided with the reality should be created.
Second, the dualism of public announcement system of real estate can be one of the reasons. The change of immovables real rights is announced publicly by the registration of real estate and the record of land registration. The practicing authority is also divided into two. The best priority for register book has caused false recording and one of the reasons for transactin accidents. To get rid of the inconsistency of dual system and the false recording, it is said that one unified system is necessary and registration officers should be given the actual right of examination. The main function of registration shows the loss-gain and change of title, and that of the record of land registration indicates the main idea on the efficient use and management of land and the public welfare rather than the scope of property. Obviously, it is more desirable to scientificate and computerize the administration than to unify the system. Mutual check system is more efficient and reasonable to realize the purpose of public announcement.
Third, the legal complement of division ownership can be one of the problems. It was recently complemented by the special law(10th April 1984, law #3725). But in the case of the registration of common use area which is found in the large scale apartment complex, the institutional inertia on the registration can be still found. Therefore I explain legislated background of this special law and study substance of it, also I study and pointout on problems which should be occured by this special law in future.
Forth, the hidden government property has caused the transacting accidents and has destroyed the transacting order. The agricultural land, which has been registered on a register or other official book by other one than the nation and has been transacted as a perfect real right apparently, has been got back by the government treating as a hidden government property because it has not been properly distributed during the dispcsal process of it after 1945. It has caused damage to the security of real estate transaction and the transferees in good faith. The lawfulness of this treatment should be reexamined. A new countermeasure which protect the transferees in good faith consistently should be nationally considered.
Fifth, lands in a reclaimed area of which the ownerships are not restored has brought a problem. After Korean War, due to the missed official documents and owners, the special law was issued to restore the disorder. But that kind of policy made the situation more serious. Recently the government has issued the special law about the registration of restoration and preservation of those land. (operation from 1st July 1983). But as I descirbed at Secition 5-4, Chapter 4, many problems in it can be found and the prompt countermeasure for it is needed.
sixth, the last one is the problem about the right of sunlight. The concern about sunlight is liable to be infringed due to the high degree of land use correspending to the public law such as the city planning law. It is important for the pleasant environment and the healthy life. Also this is a kind of conflict between the public law and the private law. It is generally natural to approve the right of sunlight. The latter should be approved as its public announcement. The former can cause trobles and occurrences of victims in good faith being difficult to recognize externally. The countermeasure about it is needed.
Various problems mentioned above will become more complex and serious with development of society. Therefore in this treatise I assert that the introduction of the Title Examination System and the Title Insurance System as a countermeasure for them.
Both of the systems are efficient on the English and American law. The former is a precautionary measure, and the latter is an ex-post loss transfer measure. I think the introduction of these systems is the best in our circumstances. In addition to the introduction of these systems, it is more useful, I think, to adopt the Title Examiner System. I also suggest that the withdrawal of government property in progress currently would be revised and completed.