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Appeals from the Māori Land Court are heard by the Māori Appellate Court, which consists of a panel of three (or more) judges of the Māori Land Court. [13] The Māori Land Court or the Māori Appellate Court may request an opinion on a matter of law from the High Court of New Zealand ; such decisions are binding on the Māori Land Court.
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 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 ...
Edward was appointed to judicial positions: as Resident Magistrate for the Bay of Islands and in 1881 Edward was appointed a judge of the Native Land Court (which became the Māori Land Court) of New Zealand. Williams translated into Māori over 210 hymns and also The Pilgrim's Progress. [1] In 1860, he translated God Save the Queen into Maori. [3]
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 ...
For example, for many decades land law did not recognise that an entire hapū owned its land, and land ownership was put in the hands of a few people. In 1954 it was renamed the Māori Land Court, and has been substantially reformed since the nineteenth century. Until the mid-twentieth century it also dealt with Māori adoptions.
In 1873, changes to the Native Land Court through the Native Lands Act 1873, lead to even greater fragmentation of Māori land. [15] Everyone with ownership interest could be put on title (not just 10), and owners had shares in the land. These shares could be partitioned (and re-partitioned). Many land blocks became difficult to administer, and ...