Customary Rights definition

Customary Rights means rights according to tikanga Māori (Māori customary values and practices) including:
Customary Rights means rights arising under customary law, including the following rights:
Customary Rights means rights of a proprietary or possessory kind in relation to land that arise from and are regulated by custom;

Examples of Customary Rights in a sentence

  • On the status of the legal suit No. K22-245 of 2002 with regards to the claim for Native Customary Rights over the agricultural land or part thereof held under title number CL095330724 measuring approximately 8,830 hectares situated at Sungai Tongod, District of Kinabatangan, Sandakan, Sabah, the Court of Appeal had on 9 June 2011, upheld the decision of the High Court and dismissed the Plaintiffs’ appeal against the preliminary objection raised by the Defendants (the “Court of Appeal’s Ruling”).

  • Private property is given either through Granted Rights in General and Reserved Land (Land Act, Section 19) or through Customary Rights in Village land (Village Land Act, Section 22).

  • In the week beginning 18 February 2008, the Ngāti Pahauwera application for a Customary Rights Order was heard by the Māori Land Court at Mohaka marae.

  • As outlined in New Zealand’s seventeenth periodic report, a number of groups have applied to the Māori Land Court for Customary Rights Orders.

  • Leader & member of: Native Customary Rights Land: Mapping & Study of Pattern of Land Use.


More Definitions of Customary Rights

Customary Rights means rights according to tikanga o Ngati Whatua Orakei Ngāti Whātua Ōrākei (Ngati Whatua Orakei Ngāti Whātua Ōrākei customary values and practices), including the following rights:-
Customary Rights means rights according to tikanga Māori, including—
Customary Rights means the rights that communities of indigenous Solomon Islanders establish over customary areas in the fisheries waters by virtue of historical use and association with such areas through acknowledgement of such rights by traditional leaders;
Customary Rights means rights according to Te Arawa tikanga, including:
Customary Rights means rights according to tikanga Māori (Māori customary values and practices) including: (e) rights to occupy land; and (f) rights in relation to the use of land or other natural or physical resources;
Customary Rights means rights of use of forest produce according to local customs, traditions and usage;”
Customary Rights means rights exercised according to te tikanga o Maniapoto (Maniapoto customary values and practices), including: