Back then, adverse possession was obtained through the indirect effect of the Limitation Act 1980. ... The owner of the property must surrender the title to the squatter. ... Sections 15 and 17 of the Limitation Act 1980 still apply today. ... In Red House Farms Ltd v Catchpole where shooting wildfowl was held to be sufficient as an act of possession. ... The squatter does not have to show that he intended to acquire title to the property. ...

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The Ombudsman is an office created by statute, which aims to act as a formal external control on the actions of the state. ... The Federal Privacy Committee was formed in 1988 under the Privacy Act. ... In its decision the court acknowledged that common law must recognise the concept of "native title" but the title could be extinguished by a valid act of either the state or federal parliaments expressing a plain and clear intention to do so. ... The Native Title Act 1993 (Cwlth) was introduced in response to the Mabo decision. The main objectives of the act are to provide for the recognitio...

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There were rights if there was a provision in the Indian Act or in other legislation or in the constitution. ... The white paper dismissed treaties as of little significance and denied any legal character to aboriginal title claims. ... The first major case showing the shift was the Nishga aboriginal title case, Calder v Attorney General of British Columbia, decided by the Supreme Court of Canada in 1973. Technically the Nishga lost, but the court divided equally on the question whether the Nishga had aboriginal title to their traditional territories. The case became one reason for th...

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Rules = General Commands A command is an expression of a wish backed by a threat to inflict an evil (=sanction, like telling the child to get the toy is not a command unless it is backed by a threat) in case the wish is not fulfilled, issued by someone who is willing and able to act on the threat. ... Duty imposed by rules are separate moral reasons to act for the good citizens, so only sanction cannot be the way in which law should be seen. ... One of them is practical reasonableness which is a type of reasoning used in order to make decisions about how to act and how to order our lives. ...

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• Grade Level: High School