Māori women’s property rights took a step backwards in 1881 when the Native Succession Act created the potential to discriminate against Māori women’s property rights under customary marriage.[i]
Footnotes
[i] go to main content Thomas Bennion and Judi Boyd, ‘Succession to Maori Land 1900-52’ , Waitangi Tribunal Report, 1997, pp.6-9.