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The Impact Of St Catherine's Milling, Karen Drake
The Impact Of St Catherine's Milling, Karen Drake
Karen Drake
St Catherine’s Milling may seem like a peculiar choice as one of the three constitutional cases that helped to define Canada as a nation, given that most of the legal principles affirmed by Lord Watson, writing for the Privy Council, have been overruled. This paper identifies the principles from St Catherine’s Milling which are still good law, and argues that the logic that underlies and shapes those principles is the logic of the doctrine of discovery and the principle of terra nullius.
Jurists have articulated different versions of the doctrine of discovery and disagreed about its precise requirements. At …