A cross lease occurs where several owners of land in one title lease out separate areas, within that title, to each other individually for house sites.
Documents/Guides-Templates-Factsheets/MOJ0217.7E-SEP21-Succession-Factsheet.pdf (355 kb)
Perhaps it is also partly the result of difficulty in obtaining mortgages on Māori freehold land, which prior to 1993 drove people to shift title into the Land Transfer title system. The problem we face is not quite as dramatic as I see in the Cook Islands and Niue where I also serve.
The order will be written up in the Court title records if it affects land, and sent to every person who has to act on it, for example, to the Māori trustee if they’ve been ordered to pay money they’re holding, or a Māori incorporation5 if the order affects shares in that incorporation.
Documents/Guides-Templates-Factsheets/MOJ0217.6E-OCT21-Applications.pdf (335 kb)
For 1 The legal ownership of property and the legal evidence of a person’s ownership rights. 2 The division of Māori land into two or more separate titles (partition). Alternatively the combination of two or more neighbouring blocks of land with shared interests into a single title (combined partition). 3 Amalgamation of titles occurs when the titles of two or more blocks of land are cancelled and a single title is issued for the whole of the area....
For 1 The legal ownership of property and the legal evidence of a person’s ownership rights. 2 The division of Māori land into two or more separate titles (partition). Alternatively the combination of two or more neighbouring blocks of land with shared interests into a single title (combined partition). 3 Amalgamation of titles occurs when the titles of two or more blocks of land are cancelled and a single title is issued for the whole of the area....
Documents/Guides-Templates-Factsheets/MLC-title-improvement-english.pdf (385 kb)
Freehold titles are often divided by partition order. The land retains the status of Māori land.
Uploads/MLC-transferring-maori-land-shares-english.pdf (333 kb)
Freehold titles are often divided by partition order. The land retains the status of Māori land.
Uploads/MLC-transferring-maori-land-shares-english-v2.pdf (333 kb)
Freehold titles are often divided by partition order. The land retains the status of Māori land.
Documents/Guides-Templates-Factsheets/MLC-transferring-maori-land-shares-english.pdf (333 kb)
Are there problems with those titles? Is the concern that the Court registry maintains title records in addition to Land Information New Zealand maintaining the legal title?
Documents/Judges-corner-articles/MLC-2014-Jun-Judges-Corner-Ambler-J.pdf (191 kb)
The trustee becomes the legal owner when the order appointing them as trustee for the land is registered against the title. The beneficiaries are called the beneficial owners. 8.
Documents/Guides-Templates-Factsheets/MOJ0217.1E-OCT21-Maori-Land-Trusts.pdf (341 kb)
