Note that the UK has several registries, since it is very old and the registries cover the historical countries which make up the UK. "The Land Registry" is actually just a land registry for England and Wales, and dates back to 1862. For most of that history the situation has been that registration was entirely voluntary, but registrations trump other paperwork. So if you have a Land Registry entry which says you own this field, but I have a piece of paper that says I own it, tough, you own the field. These days most land will have been registered, transfers for money that aren't registered are now void in England, if you pay me $5M for the paper deed for a farm in Cornwall, but don't register in the process that's a waste of the $5M since I still own the farm afterwards. This ensures you pay the taxes ("stamp duty") owed on land purchases, if you don't pay you can't register, and if you don't register you don't actually own the land.
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That would be truly remarkable, given that there are only 50 states (the District of Columbia is not a state). I don't know if each U.S. federal polity is governed by different title rules, but it wouldn't surprise me, since areas such as American Samoa, Puerto Rico & Washington, D.C. have radically different histories: American Samoa was ceded by her native rulers; Puerto Rico was conquered from Spain & the District of Columbia was ceded by Maryland, ultimately from land granted by a royal English charter.
I think it's important to note because the United States are more complex than commonly understood.
But that's just naming. My point is that these policies are set at the "state" level (even for things that aren't states) or sometimes lower than that.
Many people refer to Australia as "the 52nd state".
From my discussions with people who work there I understand that our countries are a few decades ahead of most other countries, including those on the other side of the Atlantic.