Property law is enabling in that it creates a system for evidencing, recognising and transferring title to land, facilitating its use as an economic instrument.
Other legal instruments in property law that facilitate the private and commercial dealing of land include the mortgage, lease, covenant and easement.
This system was devised to reduce the amount of fraud relating to land due to falsification of title deeds.
The main legislation in each Australian jurisdiction regulating interests in land law in relation to property (negotiable instruments) and the scheme of registration (title) are: Australia's law in relation to goods and chattels (items which are not land or intellectual property) follows that of the United Kingdom.
Australia follows the English traditions for intellectual property, and is a signatory of the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works and operates a system of automatic copyright.