Abstract
THE JUDICIAL PROCESS OF 'SETTLEMENT OF TITLE,' or 'land settlement,' constituted the core of British land regime reform in Mandate Palestine. This process, which relied on topographical and cadastral survey, exact mapping and extensive judicial investigation of land rights aimed at identifying an owner for every parcel of land in the country. 1 British reformers sought to transform the traditional usufruct rights of the indigenous, majority Arab population and the minority population of European Jewish settlers into rights of ownership. 2 They believed that the resulting security of title, in concert with comprehensive agricultural tax reform, would improve the position of small Palestinian Arab peasant farmers and revitalize Palestine's agriculture-based economy. 3
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