THE APPEAL COURT.
(Fir Unitid Phess Association.) WELLINGTON, July 25. In the Appeal Court to-day in the Gisborne Native land eases Mr Bell further contended that if the result of the decision : in Tarnaki v. Baker is that the Natives can | sue in a court of law on Native title and j recover possession of land claimed by them : under such a title, then they must equally with Europeans be subject to the provisions of the Statute of Limitations. Any legal right of action they might liavo had was : therefore barred. He rubmittcd, however, that the legal estate had passed to the Assets Company, and any remedy the Natives might, have must therefore be an equitable remedy only. That being so, cquit- j able principles must be applied, and the Natives were barred by laches and acquiescence, having stood by for years with a knowledge of their rights, if ally, whilst the company was in possession of tho lands ami expending large 311 ms in improvements.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 12415, 26 July 1902, Page 8
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166THE APPEAL COURT. Otago Daily Times, Issue 12415, 26 July 1902, Page 8
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