Background information
The seat of the Office of Justice (Land Registry Department) is in Vaduz. The Principality of Liechtenstein consists of one land register district. The national area of 160 km2 is divided into approximately 40,000 parcels. For better clarity, a special ledger with independent numbering has been created for each municipality.
Land register
The land register is a public register, endowed with public faith, on the rights in rem to real property, as well as on the reservations and annotations, in which real property and the rights in rem existing in it are entered to ensure the greatest possible legal security in real property transactions."
History
1805
Incorporation of Prince Johann into the government; until then, the Swabian Mirror and post-Roman law applied.
1807
Commission to Court Councillor Georg Hauer to investigate the conditions in Liechtenstein and to submit a reform proposal.
1808
Instructions to the new Landvogt Josef Schuppler, which included orders concerning the introduction and handling of land registers and the creation of the Oberamt under the direction of the Landvogt to administer the state. The full Oberamt was land registry court and supervision of the land registry, which was led by the court actuary Peter Zelinka as land registrar until the middle of the 19th century.
1809
Introduction of the Land Register Patent of January 1, 1809, which was based on the Bohemian Land Table Patent of 1794.
1812
Introduction of the Austrian ABGB with the exception of the law of succession, which was adopted in 1846.
1862
Introduction of the Land Court by official instruction of 1862 and subordination of the land registrar to the Land Judge.
1923
Introduction of the Property Law of December 31, 1922 (LGBl. No. 1923 No. 4), which corresponded almost word for word to the Property Law of the Swiss Civil Code of December 10, 1907, together with the regulations on the keeping of the land register. In this, the government was entrusted with the execution of the property law and the district court with the supervision of the land registry.
1996
Purchase of the land registry software "Terris" and start-up of electronic business control and diary keeping (creation of the legal basis concerning the computerized diary in Art. 545g SR with LGBl. 1996 No. 21).
2000
Law on the Land and Public Registry Office: Consolidation and transfer of supervision to the government.
2001 - 2003
Cleansing and electronic recording of the register of owners.
2002/2003
"Experimental" use of the "Terris" and creation of the legal basis for the enactment of a fee ordinance concerning land registry fees in Art. 547 SR (LGBl. 2003 No. 65) and enactment of the ordinance on land registry and commercial registry fees (LGBl. 2003 No. 67).
2003
Creation of a legal basis for the introduction of the EDP land register in Art. 632 et seq. SR (LGBl. 2003 No. 220).
2004
Introduction of the "New Land Register" according to the Property Law in the predominant municipal territory of the municipality of Planken. Put into force by government resolution (RA 2004/2983) as of 01.12.2004.
2005
- Introduction of a scanning solution: from June start with the scanning of all new land register documents arising in the daily business.
- Opening TerrIntra on the intranet for internal use in the state administration.
2006
Introduction of the "New Land Register" according to property law for all properties in the municipality of Triesenberg. Put into force by decision of the Government (RA 2006/1725-1630) as of 15.07.2006.
2007
Introduction of the "New Land Register" according to property law for all properties in the municipality of Balzers. Put into effect by government resolution (RA 2007/346-1630) as of 15.02.2007.
2008
- Introduction of the "New Land Register" according to the Property Law for all properties in the municipality of Vaduz. Put into effect by government resolution (RA 2008/1197-1630) as of 15.05.2008.
- On 1.10.2008, the new property law came into force (LGBl. 2008 No. 139). Thus, the law underwent a revision after more than 30 years, which modernized the property law.
2009
Introduction of the "New Land Register" according to property law for all properties in the municipality of Triesen. Put into force by decision of the Government (RA 2009/686-1630) as of 01.04.2009.
2010
- Introduction of the "New Land Register" according to property law for all properties in the municipality of Schaan. Put into force by government resolution (RA 2010/2-1630) on 01.02.2010.
- Introduction of the "New Land Register" according to property law for all properties in the municipality of Mauren. Put into force by government resolution (RA 2010/2231) as of 01.11.2010.
2011
Introduction of the "New Land Register" according to property law for all properties in the municipality of Ruggell. Put into force by decision of the Government (RA 2011/741-1630) as of 15.04.2011.
2012
Introduction of the "New Land Register" according to property law for all land in the municipality of Gamprin-Bendern. Put into force by government resolution (RA 2012/942-1630) as of 01.06.2012.
2013
Office of Justice
- On February 1, 2013, the Land Registry and Public Registry Office was merged with other organizational units into the Office of Justice. The term "Public Register" was replaced by the term "Commercial Register."
- Introduction of the "New Land Register" according to property law for all properties in the municipality of Schellenberg. Put into force by decision of the Government (LNR 2013-267 BNR 2013/870 REG 0142) as of 03/06/2013.
- LV95 - Registration of the new areas according to the reference frame change of the official cadastral survey from LV03 to LV95 in the municipalities of Vaduz and Ruggell as of 04.11.2013.
2014
- LV95 - Registration of the new areas according to the reference frame change of the official cadastral survey from LV03 to LV95 in the municipalities of Balzers, Gamprin and Schaan as of 16.01.2014.
- LV95 - Registration of the new areas according to the reference frame change of the official cadastral survey from LV03 to LV95 in the municipalities of Mauren and Schellenberg as of 13.02.2014.
- LV95 - Registration of the new areas according to the reference frame change of the official cadastral survey from LV03 to LV95 and renewal of the cadastral survey in the municipality of Planken as of 21.03.2014.
2015
- LV95 - Registration of the new areas according to the reference frame change of the official survey from LV03 to LV95 and renewal of the Alpine and Community Forests Survey (AGW) as of 22.05.2015.
- LV95 - Registration of the new areas according to the reference frame change of the official survey from LV03 to LV95 and renewal of the survey work in the municipality of Eschen, Operat 13 as of 04.09.2015.
- Municipality of Triesenberg, renewal of the official cadastral survey Operates 11 and 12 and reference frame change of the official cadastral survey from LV03 to LV95 and annotation of the permanent ground displacements as of 23.10.2015
- Municipality of Triesen, renewal of official cadastral surveying Operates 11 and 13 and reference frame change of official cadastral surveying from LV03 to LV95 and annotation of the permanent ground shifts as of 23.10.2015.
2016
- From 01.03.2016, the Office of Justice is the sole land transfer authority for the entire country of Liechtenstein instead of the eleven municipal land transfer commissions.
- Municipality of Ruggell, renewal of the official cadastral survey, Operat 8 (village area) per 27.04.2016.
2017
The revision of property law in 2016 was to be seen as Part II of a comprehensive property law revision. Part I took place with the enactment of the Law on the Amendment of Property Law of October 1, 2008 (LGBl. 2008 No. 139).
With Part II of the property law revision (in force since 01.01.2017), two objectives were implemented: the outstanding issues from Part I of the 2008 property law revision were brought to a final settlement, and in addition, the innovations from the partial revision of the Swiss real estate property and land register law from 2009 were incorporated into Liechtenstein property law.
Part II of the property law revision included the following central points:
- Introduction of the registered debt certificate (= paperless debt certificate)
- Repeal of the provisions on validity
- Construction workmen's lien: introduction of a requirement for the landowner's consent to the execution of work by a construction workman on his or her property commissioned by a third person; increase of the registration period from three to four months and
- Introduction of a contemporary land information system (relief of the land register of entries that have become meaningless, obligation to register legal liens on real property)
- Municipality of Eschen - registration land register survey, Operates 6 and 9, Eschnerberg / Malanser as of 17.03.2017.
- Municipality of Eschen - Registration land register survey, Operate 8 (Teiliga, Tentscha and Rheinau) as of 11.05.2017.
2018
- Municipality of Triesenberg, renewal official cadastral survey Triesenberg, Operate 13 - 16, mutation No. 2521 (cultural boundary mutation) as of 18.01.2018.
- Municipality of Gamprin, periodic update and homogenization of the official cadastral survey - Operat 7, Mutation No. 481 (cultural boundary mutation) as of 18.01.2018.
- Introduction of the "New Land Register" according to property law for all land in the municipality of Eschen. Put into force by decision of the Government (LNR 2018-276 BNR 2018/283 REG 0142) as of 26.03.2018.
The components of the land register are:
- the ledger
- the diary
- the schedules
- the vouchers
- the auxiliary register
Form of the land register
a) The paper land register consists of
- the ledger and the supplementary plans and property descriptions
- the diary and
- the auxiliary registers (register of owners, register of creditors, etc.)
The use of electronic aids is called "computerized land register"
b) The computerized land register
A cadastral survey is considered a technical prerequisite of a computerized land register.
Before land is recorded in the land register, a boundary adjustment, marking and recording of a property description must take place.
The first land cadastre originated from the years 1865 - 1870. At that time it was mainly used as a tax cadastre. In 1871, the Landtag refrained from verifying the plans for cost reasons. On February 1, 1945, the Law on Cadastral Surveying of the Principality of Liechtenstein was enacted.
Creation of the land register (transitional law)
- old land register (before 1923)
- provisional land register (from 1923)
For lack of complete resurvey of the land and not yet carried out the adjustment procedure, the land register could not yet be introduced in 1923 with all legal effects, so it was also called "provisional"