CROWN GRANTS
IMPORTANT APPEAL COURT DECISION. l)y Telegraph—l'ross Association. Wanganui, December 23. The decision of the Appeal Court in the case Bradley v. Registrar-Genera! of Lands in respect to titles of three Crown grants to Native loyalists after the Maori War will have an important bearing on the title of many thousands of acres on the West Coast. As in other parts of New Zealand, after the war these grants were given to Native loyalists subject Jo conditions that the land should be inalienable by gift, sale, or lease for a longer period than 21 years, except by consent of the Governor-General. In the great Inajority of cases these lands were not occupied by the Native grantees but by Europeans, who paid rates and taxes and generally exercised the rights of ownership. The. point which the Appeal Court had to decide* had never previously been considered in any Court higher than the Supreme Court, anil will have the effect of enabling occupiers of such land for a period of over twenty years without interruption or protest from the grantoes to apply for a title under the Lands Transfer Act.
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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 77, 24 December 1919, Page 6
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189CROWN GRANTS Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 77, 24 December 1919, Page 6
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