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Juridical Encounters
Shaunnagh Dorsett
其他書名
Māori and the Colonial Courts, 1840-1852
出版Auckland University Press, 2017
主題History / GeneralHistory / OceaniaLaw / GeneralLaw / Administrative Law & Regulatory PracticeLaw / Legal History
ISBN18694086409781869408640
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=ppXMswEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋From 1840 to 1852, the Crown Colony period, the British attempted to impose their own law on New Zealand. In theory Maori, as subjects of the Queen, were to be ruled by British law. But in fact, outside the small, isolated, British settlements, most Maori and many settlers lived according to tikanga . How then were Maori 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 Maori 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 Maori with those new institutions, particularly through the lowest courts in the land. It is in the everyday micro-encounters of Maori and the new British institutions that the beginnings of the displacement of tikanga and the imposition of British law can be seen. Juridical Encounters presents one of the first detailed studies of the interactions of an indigenous people in an Anglo-settler colony with the new British courts. By recovering Maori juridical encounters at a formative moment of New Zealand law and life, Dorsett reveals much about our law and our history.