Real Instrucción de 15 de octubre de 1754 on land titles in the Indies

A land-title statute written because smallholders could not afford Madrid. It moved the granting of crown land from the king's person to the viceroys, ordered officials to leave in quiet possession — free of charge — everyone holding land bought or composed before 1700 even if never confirmed, and took long possession itself as title where no paper survived. It also put a cultivation term on that security and rewarded denouncers of untitled ground "sin excepcion de personas ni Comunidades".