Contribution to Book
The Nature of Aboriginal Title
Owen Lippert (ed.) Beyond the Nass Valley: National Implications of the Supreme Court’s Delgamuukw Decision (Vancouver, BC: Fraser Institute, 2000).
Document Type
Book Chapter
Publication Date
1-1-2000
Keywords
- Aboriginal Rights,
- Indigenous Rights,
- Aboriginal Title,
- Aboriginal Land Rights,
- Indigenous Title,
- Indigenous Land Rights,
- Indian Law,
- Indian Title
Disciplines
Abstract
The concept of Aboriginal title is an autonomous concept of Canadian common law that bridges the gulf between Indigenous land systems and imported European land systems. It does not stem from Indigenous customary law, English common law or French civil law. It coordinates the interaction between these systems without forming part of them. In effect, it is a form of inter-societal common law.
Citation Information
Slattery, Brian. "The Nature of Aboriginal Title." Lippert, Owen, ed. Beyond the Nass Valley: National Implications of the Supreme Court’s Delgamuukw Decision. Vancouver, BC: Fraser Institute, 2000. p. 11-33. ISBN: 0889752060