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Kenya

A country in East Africa formerly a British colony

Natal

the union of the colonies of Natal, the Cape of Good Hope, the Transvaal, and the Orange River Colony, see the South Africa Act, 1909 (9 Edw. 7, c. 9). The Union was established May 30th, 1910

Trinidad and Tobago

Trinidad and Tobago. Islands in the West Indies form one colony under the Act 50 & 51 Vict. c. 44. Under 9 & 10 Geo. 5, c. 47, a

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Westminster, Statute of, 1931

Meaning of 'Dominion' in this Act. S. 2. Validity of laws made by Parliament of a Dominion; the Colonial Laws Validity Act, 1865, shall not apply to any law made by the Parliament of a Dominion. S.

Prince of Wales Island, Singapore and Malacca

Prince of Wales Island, Singapore and Malacca. Administered together as a British Colony. See Straits Settlements Act, 1866 (29 & 30 Vict. c. 115).

Foreign documents

made under s. 1 of the Act recognizing public registers in other countries (which expression includes any British Colony or Protectorate) if desirable in the interests of reciprocity.

Rookery

The breeding place of a colony of rooks also the birds themselves

Melungeon

intermixtures of white settlers with natives In North Carolina the Croatan Indians regarded as descended from Raleighs lost colony of Croatan formerly classed with negroes are now legally recognized as distinct

Dominion (His Majesty's)

the Dominion of New Zealand, the Union of South Africa, the Irish Free State, and Newfoundland'; see also COLONY. These Dominions are also styled self-governing Dominions

Marriage

Moss v. Moss, 1897 P. 263. But the law is different in most other countries, e.g., in Cape Colony, by Roman Dutch law, see Horak v. Horak, (1861) 3 Searle, 389, and see now Matrimonial Causes Act,

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