Juridical Encounters
Maori and the Colonial Courts, 1840-1852
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Word Count
86,000 words, Guess
Page Count
344 pages
Physical Format
Paperback
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL27358544M
- ISBN-139781869408640
- ISBN-101869408640
- OCLC Control Number990566870
- Amazon1869408640
Classifications
- LCCKUQ132
Description
"From 1840 to 1852, the Crown Colony period, the British attempted to impose their own law on New Zealand. In theory M ̐ưaori, as subjects of the Queen, were to be ruled by British law. But in fact, outside the small, isolated, British settlements, most M ̐ưaori and many settlers lived according to tikanga. How then were M ̐ưaori to be brought under British law? Influenced by the idea of exceptional laws that was circulating in the Empire, the colonial authorities set out to craft new regimes and new courts through which M ̐ưaori would be encouraged to forsake tikanga and to take up the laws of the settlers. Shaunnagh Dorsett examines the shape that exceptional laws took in New Zealand, the ways they influenced institutional design and the engagement of M ̐ưaori with those new institutions, particularly through the lowest courts in the land. It is in the everyday micro-encounters of M ̐ưaori and the new British institutions that the beginnings of the displacement of tikanga and the imposition of British law can be seen"--Back cover.
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