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mana whakahou

1. (noun) right of renewal, right to renew.

Nō te tau 1892, ka tukua ki aua tāngata whai nei i te mana whakahou i aua rīhi kia tū mō ake tonu atu, otirā, kīhai i whakamahia e te katoa taua mana nei (TTR 1996:141). / In 1892 those people were given the right to renew their leases in perpetuity, but not all of them exercised that right.

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