MARC Bibliographic Record

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100 1_ $aDorsett, Shaunnagh,$eauthor.
245 10 $aJuridical encounters :$bMāori and the colonial courts, 1840-1852 /$cShaunnagh Dorsett
264 _1 $aAuckland, New Zealand :$bAuckland University Press ,$c2017.
264 _4 $c©2017
300    $ax, 317 pages ;$c23 cm
336    $atext$2rdacontent
337    $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338    $avolume$2rdacarrier
504    $aIncludes bibliographical references.
520    $a"From 1840 to 1852, the Crown Colony period, the British attempted to impose their own law on New Zealand. In theory Māori, as subjects of the Queen, were to be ruled by British law. But in fact, outside the small, isolated, British settlements, most Māori and many settlers lived according to tikanga. How then were Māori 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 Māori 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 Māori with those new institutions, particularly through the lowest courts in the land. It is in the everyday micro-encounters of Māori and the new British institutions that the beginnings of the displacement of tikanga and the imposition of British law can be seen"--Back cover.
505 0_ $aIntroduction -- Juridical Encounters -- PART I: WHOSE LAW? WHICH LAW? -- 1. Preliminary Matters -- 2. Metropolitan Theorising: Amelioration, Protection and Exceptionalism -- 3. Amenability to British Law and Toleration: The Executive and Others -- 4. Common Law Jurisdiction over Māori: Three Cases -- 5. Conclusion -- PART II: DESIGNING EXCEPTIONAL LAWS AND INSTITUTIONS -- 1. Hobson and Clarke: 'Native' Courts -- 2. FitzRoy: The Native Exemption Ordinance 1844 -- 3. FitzRoy: Unsworn Testimony -- 4. Grey: The Resident Magistrates Courts 1846 -- 5. Conclusion -- PART III: JURIDICAL ENCOUNTERS IN THE COLONIAL COURTS -- 1. Preliminaries: Courts and Data -- 2. Offices: Protectors, Lawyers, Interpreters -- 3. Crime -- 4. Suing Civilly: The Resident Magistrates Court and the Office of the Native Assessor -- 5. Conclusion -- The Displacement of Tikanga -- A Brief Jurisprudential Afterword -- APPENDIX I: A Note on Court Data -- APPENDIX II: Court Structure in the Colonial Period -- APPENDIX III: Māori before the Superior Courts -- APPENDIX IV: Māori before the Resident Magistrates Court for Civil Matters inter se in Auckland and Wanganui -- APPENDIX V: The Provinces -- Abbreviations -- Bibliography -- Index.
650 _0 $aLaw$zNew Zealand$xHistory$y19th century.
650 _0 $aCourts$zNew Zealand$xHistory$y19th century.
650 _0 $aMāori (New Zealand people)$xLegal status, laws, etc.$xHistory$y19th century.
651 _0 $aNew Zealand$xColonization$xHistory$y19th century.
650 _7 $aTaipūwhenuatanga.$2reo$0(Nz)reo4150
650 _7 $aTure o te Kāwanatanga.$2reo$0(Nz)reo1018
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650 _7 $aCourts.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00881747
650 _7 $aLaw$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00993678
650 _7 $aMāori (New Zealand people)$xLegal status, laws, etc.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01008607
651 _7 $aNew Zealand.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01204542
650 _4 $aKōrero nehe.
648 _7 $a1800-1899$2fast
655 _7 $aHistory.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01411628

MMS IDs

Document ID: 9912437445402121
Network Electronic IDs: 9913311260902121
Network Physical IDs: 9912437445402121
mms_mad_ids: 991022247219402122