COURT OF APPEAL.
RESTRICTIONS OF A CROWN GRANT.. AND MAORI SUCCESSORS. l r urthor argunltnt was hoard yesterday by tfyoir Honours Justices \Villiam3 (Acting-Chicf Justice), Donniston, Edwards,... Cooper, and Chapman, in ■ tho'Court of' Appeal caso, A£-toniey-Gimeral and,others versus Ruiha Mono To Aika (of Kaiipoi) and others. The casd i was brought to dccido tho claims of two parties Of Natives to the possession of laud held by ; Aporahnma To' Aika' (deceased) under iii < Crown grant. It' was claimod 'by. tho defendants that, they: werci Aperaliama's successors, according to custom, and-that Aperj>hawa could• not doviso' tlio' land W'tho.Nativo '• plSintiffs because of "certain - provisos in the Crown grant. Tho ; Notive plaintiffs contended that ■thGso prdvisos' had been, inserted in tho grant without lawful authority and prayed tho . Court, to declare, therti invalid, .to 'amend' the grant .by tho omission, of the ."provisos," and to reissno it as so-rectified.— •. ■ . •Mr. T. .W. Stringer," K.C., and"Mr. P. Lovi tho -Nativo plainti/Es, Mr.' D. M. . Findlny 'for; the.;.. Attorney-General ' (nominal plaintiff), and Mr. G. Jlarpor for tho defendants. , , ... ■ ..... ........ ■. ;''.Jndgmoht-was res6rvedi ''V. ::
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 643, 21 October 1909, Page 11
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176COURT OF APPEAL. Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 643, 21 October 1909, Page 11
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