Land Record Types
LINZ has divided its records into the following main record types:
- Charts
- Specialised nautical charts to aid safe navigation in New Zealand waters and certain areas of Antarctica and the South West Pacific
- Field books/notes
- Contain survey measurements obtained in the field
- Indexes
- Includes Landonline, New Zealand's database for land title and survey information
- Instruments
- Legal documents (eg transfer of ownership, mortgage, lease)
- Plans
- Legal boundaries of properties
- Titles (computer registers)
- Records of property ownership
- Topographic maps
- National topographic mapping at 1:50,000 and broader scales
- Traverse records/sheets
- Schedule of survey observations, plus coordinates assigned to each survey mark
Historic land record types
Some types of land records have been superceded by new record types. Find out how LINZ manages core paper records or more about the following historic land record types:
- Abstracts/lodgement forms
- Record of instruments lodged
- Certificates of Title
- Replaced by computer registers
- Crown grants
- Evidence of ownership when the Crown sold land
- Deeds
- Original main record of property ownership before the land titles system
- Journals
- Chronological records of all the lodgements in the title system
