Some articles on laws, common law aboriginal, aboriginal:
... statutory rights related to native customary laws ("adat") before its courts acknowledged the independent existence of common law aboriginal title ... Rajah’s Order IX of 1875 recognized aboriginal title by providing for its extinguishment where cleared land was abandoned ... The Aboriginal People’s Act 1954 creates aboriginal areas and reserves, also providing for state acquisition of land without compensation ...
Famous quotes containing the words aboriginal, common and/or law:
“John Eliot came to preach to the Podunks in 1657, translated the Bible into their language, but made little progress in aboriginal soul-saving. The Indians answered his pleas with: ‘No, you have taken away our lands, and now you wish to make us a race of slaves.’”
—Administration for the State of Con, U.S. public relief program. Connecticut: A Guide to Its Roads, Lore, and People (The WPA Guide to Connecticut)
“The aim of every political constitution is, or ought to be, first to obtain for rulers men who possess most wisdom to discern, and most virtue to pursue, the common good of the society; and in the next place, to take the most effectual precautions for keeping them virtuous whilst they continue to hold their public trust.”
—James Madison (1751–1836)
“Like other high subjects, the Law gives no ground to common sense.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)