Australian property legislation refers to the different schemes of regulating property rights between each jurisdiction of the states and territories in Australia; combining legislation and receptive of common law.
The reason there is no unified national system for regulating property is the reservation of this power to the states in the constitution.
There have been discussions about a co-operative system of regulation to be implemented between the states, conferring jurisdiction on the federal commonwealth in a similar manner done in the Corporations Act 2001.
Property legislation in all states is grounded upon the Torrens principle of registration of title.
This system was devised to reduce the amount of fraud relating to land due to the falsification of title deeds.