Mercury NZ Ltd v Cairns - Pouakani River Bed (2022) 277 Waiariki MB 174 (277 WAR 174) [pdf, 417 KB]
...note that the Crown could only grant land that it had lawfully acquired from Māori and that brings into operation the nemo dat principle; that the Crown cannot grant property unless it first has that property to give.18 15 272 Waiariki MB 101 (272 WAR 101). 16 272 Waiariki MB 102 (272 WAR 102). 17 272 Waiariki MB 100 (272 WAR 100). 18 272 Waiariki MB 100 (272 WAR 100). 277 Waiariki MB 188 [56] Ms Feint submitted, in relation to the riverbed land at Pouakani, that:...