Contracts are usually written, but a spoken agreement can also be a contract. 6 The minimum number of members that must be present at a meeting to make proceedings valid. 7 A change of ownership of land gives the recipient of that interest the ownership and its associated rights (land may be vested in a trustee, or shares may be vested in another person). 5 8 Section 4 of the Act lists the preferred classes of alienees...
(b) Where a person dies intestate (without a will), a grant of letters of administration is obtained. 5 The administrator/s are responsible for ensuring that these assets are transferred to those entitled to them. 6 A change of ownership of land gives the recipient of that interest the ownership and its associated rights (land may be vested in a trustee, or shares may be vested in another person). 7 In broad terms, l...
(b) Where a person dies intestate (without a will), a grant of letters of administration is obtained. 5 The administrator/s are responsible for ensuring that these assets are transferred to those entitled to them. 6 A change of ownership of land gives the recipient of that interest the ownership and its associated rights (land may be vested in a trustee, or shares may be vested in another person). 7 In broad terms, l...
Documents/Guides-Templates-Factsheets/MLC-succession-english.pdf (1.2 mb)
Other status types As this update is specifically for Māori Customary Land and Māori Freehold Land it excludes the following land status types that fall within the jurisdiction of the Māori Land Court: Crown Land Crown Land Reserved for Māori General Land (which maybe vested in a Māori Land Trust) General Land Owned by Māori (which maybe vested in a Māori Land Trust); Ownership Only (...
Documents/Maori-Land-Updates/Maori-Land-Update-2014.pdf (572 kb)
Other status types As this update is specifically for Māori Customary Land and Māori Freehold Land it excludes the following land status types that fall within the jurisdiction of the Māori Land Court: Crown Land Crown Land Reserved for Māori General Land (which maybe vested in a Māori Land Trust) General Land Owned by Māori (which maybe vested in a Māori Land Trust); Ownership Only (...
Documents/Maori-Land-Data/Maori-Land-Update-2014.pdf (572 kb)
A change of ownership of land gives the recipient of that interest the ownership and its associated rights.
Documents/Guides-Templates-Factsheets/MOJ0217.8E-SEP21-Maori-Incorporations-Factsheet.pdf (370 kb)
The Preamble to the 1862 Act stated that the new legislation would ‘greatly promote the peaceful settlement of the colony and the advancement and civilisation of the natives’ if their rights to land were ‘assimilated as nearly as possible to the ownership of land according to British law’.
Documents/Guides-Templates-Factsheets/MLC-150-years-of-the-Maori-Land-Court.pdf (11 mb)
1 Notification of applications that have not been finally determined (over 6 months old) 31 May 2023 TAKE NOTICE THAT the following schedule of applications are hereby notified pursuant to rule 5.11(2)(b) of the Māori Land Court Rules 2011 being applications which are 6 months or older as at 31 May 2023, and which are currently held by the Registrar in the District set out, or, in the case of applications to the Chief Judge of Māori...
Former Chief Māori Land Court Judge, who then became a Justice of the High Court, ET Durie provided the following analyses of the nature of Māori rights to land; Maori see themselves not as masters of the environment but as members of it.
Documents/Judges-corner-articles/JWI-ACPECT-Presentation-2022.pdf (540 kb)
1 Notification of applications that have not been finally determined (over 6 months old) 31 August 2022 TAKE NOTICE THAT the following schedule of applications are hereby notified pursuant to rule 5.11(2)(b) of the Māori Land Court Rules 2011 being applications which are 6 months or older as at 31 August 2022, and which are currently held by the Registrar in the District set out, or, in the case of applications to the Chief Judge of...
