This thesis is entitled the registration of the transfer of ownership rights to land
due to inheritance to realize legal certainty in Semarang Regency. Have the heirs
in the Central Java Province of Semarang Regency registered for the transfer of
ownership rights over land due to inheritance to guarantee legal certainty in
Semarang Regency. There were 22 respondents and data was collected through
empirical legal research. Empirical legal research is research that focuses on the
behavior of the legal community with research with sociological legal research
that sees the law in the real sense of the facts and facts that exist in society
through observation, interviews or distribution of questionnaires. The results
showed that the registration of the transfer of ownership rights to land because
inheritance had not been carried out. In Jambu Village, Jambu District and
Ngrapah Village, Banyubiru District. All respondents who received land
ownership due to inheritance did not yet have certificates in their own name, the
certificate was still on behalf of the heir. Even in Ngrapah Village many
respondents did not yet have certificates for the land. The land has never been
registered at the Land Office at all. The obstacles for heirs are costs, the heirs
reside outside the area (land location), the land has not been divided. Heirs hope
the Government will reinstate a mass land registration program at a cheap and
affordable cost.