법무연구 3권(2012.3)

326 법무연구 제3권 (2012. 4.) Such criteria include not only official books such as Jeonan, Yangan, Sujoan and Yeonggi but also private ones such as title documents. Official books including Sujoan as well as Yangan did not indicate changes of owners but showed existing owners only. Usually individuals proved his ownership with a certificate like Ipan, Ipji or Jongmun issued by the authorities or with a private document. Therefore, it was important to record that ownership transfer was made legitimately and truly and then to report the authorities about such fact to obtain certificates on such ownership transfer owing to sales or inheritance. Concentrated upon Mungi which was a contractual document proving ownership and a drafting system which needed a report to the authorities to get their notarial act after signing a contract, we have looked into the ownership verification system of our traditional law which had been implemented before our modern real estate registration system was introduced. Necessity of confirmation and control of ownership transfer required a new verification system owing to disorder of land system at the end of Joseon Age, and there occurred land ownership problems in residential area of foreign people since port opening in 1876. In this connection, a new system of housecotract and landcontact existed from 1893 to 1906, which could be said as the system during transition period of modernization of our registration system.