karāti
1. (loan) (verb) (-a,-tia) to award a grant, award a crown grant, grant.
Ahakoa kua karātitia rawatia ki ētahi tāngata te whenua i puta ai ēnei tono kua karātitia i muri i te ata whakawākanga i te take ki tā te Māori tikanga i roto i te Kōti Whenua Māori (TWMNT 15/10/1873:123). / Notwithstanding that the land has been granted exclusively to other people, these submissions have appeared after the ownership has been granted, according to Māori usage, having been investigated in the Native Land Court.
2. (loan) (noun) grant, crown grant.
Ki te kore ngā tāngata o ngā karāti e mōkete, e hoko rānei i ō rātou whenua hei utu mō ā rātou nama, ka tangohia, ka hokona te whenua (TW 12/2/1875:21). / Unless the grantees mortgaged or sold their land in payment of their debts, the land would be taken and sold.
