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Legitimation per subsequens matrimonium
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),
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
Vice-Admiralty Courts
ss. 10, 11 of the 1863 Act. The above Act, with other cognate enactments, is repealed by the Colonial Courts of Admiralty Act, 1890 (53 & 54 Vict. c. 27), by which (see s. 17) Vice-Admiralty Courts
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Protectorate
British sovereign generally by treaty with the native ruler or chiefs administered on the same lines as Crown Colonies (Hals. L.E., tit. 'Dependencies, Colonies and British Possessions).
Prize Court
war. See also the (English) Prize Courts Acts, 1894 and 1915, and as to Vice-Admiralty Courts, in the Colonies, the Colonial Courts of Admiralty Act, 1890. The law administered in the Prize Court is 'the course of
writ
enforce an order for the possession of lands 2 : a writ provided for under British rule in colonial America that authorized customs officers to search unspecified places for any smuggled goods NOTE: Many colonial courts refused
Creole
One born of European parents in the American colonies of France or Spain or in the States which were once such colonies esp a person of French
Intercolonial
Between or among colonies pertaining to the intercourse or mutual relations of colonies as intercolonial trade
Admiralty
was transferred to the Court of Session and the Sheriff Courts. The jurisdiction of the Admiralty in the colonies is regulated by the (English) Colonial Courts of Admiralty Act, 1890 (53 & 54 Vict. c. 27); and
Secretaries of State
eight principal Secretaries of State, one for the Home Department, another for Foreign Affairs, a third for the Colonies, a fourth for War (26 & 27 Vict. c. 12), a fifth for India (21 & 22 Vict.
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