"The Eternal Son of God, . . . did not accomplish His design without adding there the free consent of the elect Mother, who represented in some sort all human kind, according to the illustrious and just opinion of St . Thomas, who says that the Annunciation was effected with the consent of the Virgin standing in the place of humanity.
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Tom Bennion, in " New Zealand Land Law " has noted that the ratio of the case, " that Maori customary interests were to be solemnly respected and were not to be extinguished without the free consent of Maori ", " remains one of the strongest assertions of aboriginal title in any of the jurisdictions in which it has been recognised ".
