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Aboriginal customary law : a source of common law title to land /
"This book develops an alternative approach to conventional Aboriginal title doctrine. It explains that aboriginal customary law can be a source of common law title to land in former British colonies, whether they were acquired by settlement or by conquest or cession from another colonising pow...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford, UK :
Hart Publishing,
2014.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgements; Contents; Table of Cases; Table of Legislation; Introduction; Part I: Australian Land Law and the Meaning of Radical Title Pre-Mabo; Chapter One: The Origin and Application of the Doctrine of Absolute Crown Ownership in Australia: The Common Law 1788-1992; I The Feudal Basis of Land Law in England; A Germ of the Doctrine of Tenure; i Folkland; ii Bookland; iii Folkland: Private Property or Public Property?; iv Laenland; v Summary; B The Norman Conquest: Establishment of Feudal Tenure.
- C 'Exceptions' to the Doctrine of Tenurei Allodial Land; ii Recognition of Customary Law Rights to Land: Tenure in Ancient Demesne; iii The Estate Pur Autre Vie; iv Adverse Possession; v Ecclesiastical Tenures; vi Summary; II The Reception of Land Law into the Australian Colonies; A The English Doctrine of Tenure in 1788; B The Doctrine of Reception; i Milirrpum v Nabalco Pty Ltd: Non-Feudal Rights in Land; III Conclusion; Chapter Two: The Meaning of Radical Title Pre-Mabo; I The Meaning of Radical Title: The Leading Privy Council Authorities (Re)Examined.
- A St Catherine's Milling and Lumber Co v RB Amodu Tijani v Secretary, Southern Nigeria; C Re Southern Rhodesia; II International v Municipal Law: American Authority; A Johnson v M'Intosh; B Cherokee Nation v Georgia; C Worcester v Georgia; III New Zealand Authority; A R v Symonds; B Wi Parata v Bishop of Wellington: International Law Revisited; C Nireaha Tamaki v Baker; IV Conclusion; Part II: The Doctrine of Tenure and the Juridical Consequences of the Colonial Law Classification of an 'Inhabited' Colony as 'Settled' Re-examined Post-Mabo.
- Chapter Three: The Doctrine of Tenure and the Common Law Consequences of the Classification of an 'Inhabited' Colony as 'Settled' Post-Mabo: Emergence of the Doctrine of Tenure ad Veritatem and the Doctrine of Continuity Pro-TemporeI Radical Title as the Postulate of the Doctrine of Tenure ad Veritatem; A Mabo: The Decision; B The Feudal Basis of Land Law Revisited; C Summary; II The Reception of Land Law into the Australian Colonies Revisited; A Constitutional Status of Australia: An Inhabited Settled Colony; B The Continuity and Recognition Doctrines Revisited.
- C Royal Prerogative Powers in the Coloniesi Conquered/Ceded Colonies; ii Inhabited Settled Colonies; D Relevance of Kent McNeil's Original Thesis; III Post-Mabo Developments; A High Court Decisions; B Native Title Legislation; IV Conclusion; Part III: The Meaning of Radical Title in Post-Mabo Australian Jurisprudence; Chapter Four: Radical Title and Unalienated Land Post-Mabo; I Automatic Expansion of Radical Title in Respect of Original Unalienated Land: Brennan J's Reliance on the 'No Other Proprietor' Principle (Radical Title as a Concomitant of Sovereignty).
- A Beneficial Ownership of Original Unalienated Land? The 'No Other Proprietor' Principle: New Legal Fiction Replacing the Feudal Fiction of Original Crown Ownership
- Attorney-General (NSW) v Brown Revisited.