62R. v. Marshall; R. v. Bernard, [2005] 2 S.C.R. 220, 2005 SCC 43 .. 43, 47, 53, 54, 55, 59Re Lewis’s Declaration of Trust; Lewis v. Lewis; Lewis v. Ryder, [1953] 1 All E.R. 1005,(sub nom. Loudon v. Ryder (No. 2)), [1953] 1 All E.R. 1005, [1953] Ch. 423 (Ch. D.) ................................................................................................................................ 30, 33, 37Tsilhqot'in Nation v. British Columbia, 2007 BCSC 1700, [2007] B.C.J. No. 2465 .......... 1Tsilhqot'in Nation v. British Columbia, 2008 BCSC 600, [2008] B.C.J. No. 871 .... 26, 41,43, 52William v. British Columbia (HMTQ), 2009 BCCA 83, [2009] B.C.J. No. 338 ................ 29William v. British Columbia, 2002 BCSC 1904, [2002] B.C.J. No. 3366 .................. 28, 31William v. British Columbia, 2004 BCSC 964, 30 B.C.L.R. (4 th ) 382 ............................. 32William v. Riverside Forest Products Ltd., 2001 BCSC 1641, 95 B.C.L.R. (3d) 371 ..... 29Wuta-Ofei v. Danquah, [1961] 3 All E.R. 596 (P.C.), at 600 .......................................... 56Xeni Gwet’in First Nations v. British Columbia, 2004 BCSC 610, 240 D.L.R. (4 th ) 547 .......................................................................................................................................... 29Xeni Gwet'in First Nations v. British Columbia, 2002 BCCA 434, 3 B.C.L.R. (4 th ) 231 ............................................................................................................................................ 29StatutesLaw and Equity Act, R.S.B.C. 1996, c. 253, s. 10 ......................................................... 33Other AuthoritiesBrian Slattery, “Understanding Aboriginal Rights” (1987) 66 Can. Bar. Rev. 727 ......... 40Carol Rose, “Possession as the Origin of Property” (1985) 52 U. of. Chic. L. R. 73 ..... 59Frederick M. Irvine, McLachlin & Taylor, British Columbia Practice, 3rd ed., looseleaf(Markham: LexisNexis, 2005) ........................................................................................ 33Kent McNeil, Common Law Aboriginal Title (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989) .............. 56Lazar Sarna, The Law of Declaratory Judgements, 3 rd ed. (Toronto: Carswell, 2007) .. 30PW Young, Declaratory Orders, 2 nd ed. (Sydney: Butterworths, 1984) ......................... 36
63R. D. C. Stewart, “Differences Between Possession of Land and Chattels” (1933) 11C.B.R. 651 ..................................................................................................................... 55Rt. Hon. The Lord Woolf & Jeremy Woolf, Zamir & Woolf, The Declaratory Judgment,3 rd ed. (London: Sweet & Maxwell, 2002) .......................................................... 33, 36, 38William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, (London: CavendishPublishing Ltd., 2001), vol. 2 ......................................................................................... 59
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