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Colony [fr. colo, Lat., to cultivate], a settlement in a foreign country possessed and cultivated, either wholly or partially, by immigrants and their descendants, who have a political connection with and subordination to the mother-country whence they emigrated. In other words, it is a place peopled from some more ancient city or country.England was not the first among European nations that planted settlements in parts beyond Europe. But by her own colonization, and by the conquests of the settlements of other nations, she was now acquired a more extensive dominion of colonies and dependencies than any other nation. The colonies of Great Britain exceed in number, extent, and value those of every other country.In an Act of Parliament (English) passed after 1889 the expression 'colony' means by s. 18(3), of the Interpretation Act, 1889, 'any part of her Majesty's dominions, exclusive of the British Islands and of British India, and where parts of such dominions are under both a central ...
Colonial Laws (English)
Colonial Laws (English). The validity of laws passed by colonial legislature is established by the Statute of Westminster, 1931, which enacts, subject to the provisions of the Act, that the Colonial Laws Validity Act, 1865, shall not apply to any law made after December 11th, 1931, by the Parliament of a Dominion. Also that no law made by the Parliament of a Dominion be void on the ground that it is repugnant to the law of England. The Colonial Laws Validity Act, 1865 (28 & 29 Vict. c. 63) enacts that no colonial law shall be void for repugnancy to the law of England, unless it be repugnant to the provisions of some Act of Parliament extending to the colony, or to any Order made under authority of such Act, or having in the colony the force and effect of such Act. In the case of such repugnancy the colonial law shall be void to the extent thereof and not otherwise. By the same Act all colonial legislatures are empowered to establish courts of judicature, and to abolish and reconstitute...
Colonial Stock Acts (English)
Colonial Stock Acts (English). Colonial stocks were not authorised as trustee investments by the Trustee Act, 1893, but by the Colonial Stock Acts of 1877, 1892, 1900 and 1934. Colonial stocks registered in the United Kingdom, and with respect to which certain prescribed conditions have been observed, are (unless expressly forbidden by the instrument of trust: Trustee Act, 1925, s. 1 (o) available as investments for trustees; see Colonial Stock Act, 1900 (63 & 64 Vict. c. 62), and subsequent Acts; Re Maryon-Wilson, (1912) 1 Ch 55...
Colonial Attorneys Relief Acts (English)
Colonial Attorneys Relief Acts (English), 1857, 1874, and 1884 (20 & 21 Vict. c. 39, 37 & 38 Vict. c. 41, and 47 & 48 Vict. c. 24). These Acts provided for the admission, to practise as solicitors in the Supreme Court in England, of all persons, being subjects of the British Crown, who have been duly admitted and enrolled as attorneys and solicitors in any colony. These Acts were repealed by the Colonial Solicitors Act, 1900 (63 & 64 Vict. c. 14), which was in turn repealed by the Solicitors Act, 1932 (22 & 23 Geo. 5, c. 37), and s. 35 enacts:-(1) A solicitor of a Superior Court in a British possession to which this section applies who has been in practice before such Court for not less than three years may-(a) on giving due notice and the prescribed proof of his qualification and good character; and(b) on passing the prescribed examination or, in the prescribed cases, without examination; and(c) after service under Articles during the prescribed period or, in the prescribed cases, wit...
Colonial clergy
Colonial clergy. As to the position of clergy ordained in the colonies, when they come to England, see the 'Colonial Clergy Act, 1874,' 37 & 38 Vict. c. 77....
Colonial coinage
Colonial coinage. By s. 11 (8) of the (English) Coinage Act, 1870 (33 & 34 Vict. c. 10), replacing the (English) Colonial Branch Mint Act, 1866 (29 & 30 Vict. c.65) (which applied to gold coins only), the King on Council may make coins coined in the colonies legal tender in England, and may revoke such order, and see (English) Coinage Act, 1920 (10 Geo. 5, c. 3), s. 1. See TENDER....
Colonial Office
Colonial Office, the department of state through which the sovereign appoints colonial governors, etc., and communicates with them. Until the year 1854, the administration of Colonial and military affairs was combined, but after the Crimean War an additional Secretary of State was appointed for the administration of military affairs only see WAR OFFICE....
Crown agents for the colonies
Crown agents for the colonies act as the business and financial agents in the United Kingdom for the Colonies other than the Dominions, and are appointed by the Secretary of State for the Colonies....
Small holding colonies
Small holding colonies. By the (English) Small Holding Colonies Act, 1916 (6 & 7 Geo. 5, c. 38) and 1918 (8 & 9 Geo. 5, c. 26), as amended by the (English) Land Settlement (Facilities) Act, 1919 (9 & 10 Geo. 5, c. 59), the Board, now Ministry, of Agriculture and Fisheries may, after consultation with the chairman of the county council, acquire by agreement a limited amount of land up to 45,000 acres in England and Wales for the purpose of providing small holding colonies with powers conferred by the Acts.See ALLOTMENTS, and Aggs on Agricultural Holdings....
Colonial
Of or pertaining to a colony as colonial rights traffic wars...
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