Hierarchies Of Land Use

Many leading scholars of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries insisted that European states venturing to distant territories must respect the rights of the existing owners.

However there was no agreement about the link between land use and land ownership. So influential writers developed a scale of land use value.

This ranged from hunter-gatherers at the lowest level, to nomadic people who moved their flocks and herds from pasture to pasture, on to agriculturists, and then, at the highest level, people who engaged in commerce, in towns and cities.

• Terra Nullius Defined
• International Law
• Colonisation
• Human Rights
• Takeovers
• Bases For Takeovers
• Justifications
• Barbarism
• Hierarchies Of Land Use
• Recent Changes To International Law
• Territorial Integrity
• The Common Law Of England
• Common Law Rules For New English Territories
• Settled & Conquered Colonies
• The Status Of The Australian Colonies
• Reception Of English Law
• Sovereignty & Ownership Distinguished
• Other Lands Settled By The British
• Terra Nullius & Australia
• Crown Land
• Gove Case
• The Gove Decision Questioned
• The Mabo Case
• The Mabo Decision
• Britain's Acquisition Of Sovereignty
• Pre-Existing Land Rights
• The Doctrine Of Tenures Reconsidered
• Extinguishment Of Native Title
• Sovereignty & Indigenous Self-Government