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The owners of settler ownership: Clare Davidson, ‘Cultivation and Commodification: Regulating Gendered Status and Settler Colonial Title to Land’, Australian Historical Studies, 2025

06Jan25

Abstract: The processes by which settler colonial rights to manage land were assigned to legal persons were structured by the South Australia Act 1834 and the Real Property Act 1858. Colonial corporations – including the Crown – managed land and natural resources by regulating how rights were held by the family as a gendered, property-holding institution, and by individuals, including women. This article examines the legal processes by which the management of land and resources was directed towards goals of cultivation and commodification in colonial Australia to show how property rights shaped ideas of gendered and nongendered personhood. Changing priorities relating to land ownership led to new modes of transferring property and contributed to a reduction in the significance of gender as a marker of relative legal status between men and women in private law in colonial Australia.


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