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The state or quality of or the relationship involved in being colonial...
Colonial Marriages Validity Act (English)
Colonial Marriages Validity Act (English), 1865 (28 & 29 Vict. c. 64). All the laws made or to be made by the legislature of any of his Majesty's possessions for the purpose of establishing the validity of marriages previously contracted therein, are to have the same effect within all parts of his Majesty's dominions as within the place where they were made....
Colonial Register (Companies)
Colonial Register (Companies). See DOMINION REGISTER....
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...
Habeas corpus ad subjiciendum
Habeas corpus ad subjiciendum (that you have the body to answer). This, the most celebrated prerogative writ in the English law, is a remedy for a person deprived of his liberty. It is addressed to him who detains another in custody, and commands him to produce the body, with the day and cause of his caption and detention, and to do, submit to, and receive whatever the judge or Court shall consider in that behalf. The writ is applied for either by motion to a Court or application to a judge, supported by an affidavit of the facts. (See (English) Crown Office Rules, 1906, rr. 216-230.) If a probable ground be shown that the party is imprisoned without a cause and has a right to be delivered, this writ ought of right to be granted to every man committed or detained in prison or otherwise restrained, though by command of the sovereign, the Privy Council, or any other power. Therefore there is an absolute necessity of express-ing upon every commitment the reason for which it is made, that ...
Kaffir
One of a race which with the Hottentots and Bushmen inhabit South Africa They inhabit the country north of Cape Colony the name being now specifically applied to the tribes living between Cape Colony and Natal including the Ponda Xosa and Tembu but the Zulus of Natal are true Kaffirs...
Old Dominion
Virginia a name of uncertain origin perh from the old designation of the colony as ldquothe Colony and Dominion of Virginiardquo...
Plantation
Plantation, a colony.With respect to their internal policy our colonies are of three sorts: (1) provincial establishments; (2) proprietary governments; (3) charter governments, Steph. Co. see COLONY....
Legitimation per subsequens matrimonium
Legitimation per subsequens matrimonium. The legitimation of a bastard by the subsequent marriage of his parents. Formerly not recognized by the Law of England, though always allowed under the Civil Law in Scotland and most European countries and many British colonies.Now recognised in England and Wales by the Legitimacy Act, 1926 (16 & 17 Geo. 5, c. 60), as from 1st January, 1927. The Act provides for the legitimation of an illegitimate person by the subsequent marriage of the parents, but not if the other person was married to a third person at the time of the illegitimate person's birth. It further provides for declarations of legitimacy, the rights of legitimated persons to take interests in property, succession, personal rights and obligations, and as to persons legitimated by extraneous law. See for summary of law before 1927 an article by Sir Dennis Fitzpatrick, K.C.S.I., in the Journal of the Society of Comparative Legislation, No. 13, New Series (1904).In the British Colonies ...
Court having admiralty jurisdiction
Court having admiralty jurisdiction. The legislature of a British possession may by any Colonial Law Q:-(a) declare any court of unlimited civil jurisdiction whether original or appellate, in that possession to be a Colonial Court of Admiralty, and provide for the exercise by such Court of its jurisdiction under this Act, and limit territorially, or otherwise, the extent of such jurisdiction; and (b) confer upon any inferior or subordinate Court in that possession such partial or limited Admiralty jurisdiction under such regulations and with such appeal (if any) as may seem fit. [Colonial Courts of Admiralty (India) Act, 1891 (16 of 1891), s. 3]...
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