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The Maori Land Court and Land Boards, 1909 to 1952. (Wellington: Waitangi Tribunal). Richard Boast (1999). Maori Land Law. (Wellington: Butterworths). Dean Cowie. (1996). Land Alienations via the Native Land Court from 1866 to 1873. In Rangahaua Whanui District 11B: Hawke's Bay (pp. 61–136). (Wellington: Waitangi Tribunal). Retrieved from ...
The 1865 act further individualised Māori land title with no more than ten owners, meaning the many others in the hapū or whānau that had ownership and usage rights to the land essentially had those right extinguished. [4] The Native Land Court was also known as Te Kooti Tango Whenua, The Land Taking Court. [5]
Te Ture Whenua Māori Act 1993 gives the Māori Land Court the jurisdiction to consider this claim. [6] Without limiting any rights of the High Court to make determinations, the Māori Land Court may declare the particular status of any land. [7] For the purposes of the act, all New Zealand land has one of six statuses: Māori customary land
The Māori Land Court determined that it could consider the issue, but was overruled by the High Court. On 19 June 2003, New Zealand's Court of Appeal ruled in Ngati Apa v Attorney-General, amongst other matters, that: "The definition of 'land' in Te Ture Whenua Maori Act 1993 did not necessarily exclude foreshore and seabed"; [2]
A Supreme Court was first established in 1841 (it was renamed the High Court in 1980, and is different from the current Supreme Court), and various lower courts subsequently established. Its establishment followed the arrival in New Zealand of the first chief justice , William Martin , and it heard its first case in January 1842. [ 14 ]
The case arose from an application by eight northern South Island iwi for orders declaring the foreshore and seabed of the Marlborough Sounds Maori customary land. [1] After lower court decisions and consequent appeals in the Maori Land Court, the Maori Appellate Court and the High Court; the Court of Appeal unanimously held that the Maori Land ...
The boundaries of the territory under Te Kahu-o-te-Rangi's control became important in disputes about land ownership before the Maori Land Court in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. According to a Ngāti Pāhauwera account given by Wepiha Te Wainohu in 1879, Te Kahu-o-te-rangi decided to lay down his boundary, starting on the ...
In the 1920s, land commissions investigated the grievances of hapū whose land had been confiscated or otherwise fraudulently obtained in the previous century, and many were found to be valid. [11] By the 1940s, settlements in the form of modest annual payments had been arranged with some hapū.