Whatatiri v The King - [1938] NZLR 676

Statutes of Limitation — Crown Grant to Trustee — Impracticability of Performance of Objects of Grant — Permissive Occupation by Natives — Grantee's Successors empowered by Statute to sell Land to the Crown — Alleged Adverse Possession — Claim by Native of Prescriptive Ownership as against the Crown — Effect of Statute — Reserves and Other Lands Disposal and Public Bodies Empowering Act, 1925, s 7 — Real Property Limitation Act, 1833 (3 & 4 Will 4, c 27), ss 2, 3.