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• Title:A simple nullity? : the Wi Parata case in New Zealand law and history / David V. Williams.
  
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• Author/Creator:Williams, David V. (David Vernon)
  
• Published/Created:Auckland, N.Z. : Auckland University Press, 2011.
  

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  • Location:KOERNER LIBRARY stacks (Floor 1)Where is this?
    
  • Call Number: KUQ2569 .W55 2011
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

  • Location:LAW LIBRARY (level 3)Where is this?
    
  • Call Number: KUQ2569 .W55 2011
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:c.1 On loan - Due on 09-15-2025
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Parata, Wiremu--Trials, litigation, etc.
  Hadfield, Octavius, 1814-1904--Trials, litigation, etc.
  Maori (New Zealand people)--Land tenure--Law and legislation.
  Ngati Toa (New Zealand people)--Land tenure.
  New Zealand--Race relations--History--19th century.
  
• Subject(s):Treaty of Waitangi (1840 February 6)
  
• Genre/Form:Treaties.
  
• Description:viii, 287 pages, [8] pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm.
  
• Summary:"In 1877, the New Zealand Supreme Court decided a case that centred on the ownership and use of the Whitireia Block, near Porirua. Ngati Toa had given this land to the Anglican Church for a college that was never built. During the subsequent court case, the judge dismissed the relevance of the Treaty of Waitangi. This book examines the case - the protagonists, the origins of the dispute, the years of legal back and forth, and tells us much about nineteenth-century Maori acting as they thought best for their people and about debates in Pakeha jurisprudence over the recognition or rejection of customary Maori rights."--Publisher's description.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:9781869404840 (pbk.)
  
• Contents:Machine generated contents note: ch. One arrival of Christianity on the Kapiti coast
  ch. Two `exemplary haven' in a troubled land
  ch. Three fraud on the donors?
  ch. Four gift or a grant?
  ch. Five Why did the Church cling to the gifted land?
  ch. Six `Because of what I heard said at Kohimarama'
  ch. Seven In the Supreme Court at Wellington
  ch. Eight long (and continuing) aftermath
  ch. Nine Revisionist legal history
  ch. Ten Contemporary comments.