Land Trusts definitely exist all over the planet. Part of the benefit of trusts (and why the rich use them for everything) is because they supersede national "laws."
The land patent side of things, you'd have to look country by country, but they did come over from England & other European countries to the Americas. I've only been looking at the specifically USA process to get one, but they definitely exist in at least some other countries.
EDIT: Ya, there's all kinds of stuff about Mexican Land Trusts