摘要：This paper analyzes the influences of the timber industry on the development of the colony of New Zealand and its land law during the nineteenth century, especially in regard to the dispossession of the indigenous Maori population from the Kauri forests of the North Island. By conducting a case study of Mangakāhia v the New Zealand Timber Company, Ltd. (1882), this paper illustrates the manner by which Maori landowners were increasingly barred from full legal status by the New Zealand courts, and how the economic and political power of the timber industry allowed the Court of Appeals to essentially dismiss Mangakāhia’s case out of hand.
