Browne (Respondent) v Munokoa and another (Appellants) (Cook Islands)
The Privy Council held that a non-blood adopted child may succeed to adoptive parents’ Native freehold land if the adoption had matured by the death of the deceased.
- Succession rights of adopted children
- Customary land tenure
- Adoption and inheritance
- Recognition of custom in law
- Customary-law
- Succession-law