One Hundred Years of Solitude

He simply offered to set up a
registry office so that José
Arcadio could legalize his
title to the usurped land,
under the condition that he
delegate to the local
government the right to
collect the contributions.
They made an agreement.
Years later, when Colonel
Aureliano Buendía examined
the titles to property, he
found registered in his
brothers name all of the land