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Colonial Attorneys Relief Acts (English)

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 These Acts were repealed by the Colonial Solicitors Act, 1900 (63 & 64 Vict.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

Barbados

Barbados, a British Colony, administered by a Governor, Executive Committee, Legislative Council, and Assembly. See TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO.

Passport

issued by the Foreign Office to British-born subjects or to those naturalised in the United Kingdom, British Dominions, Colonies or India, subject to the recommendation and identification of the applicant by a person holding certain positions, e.g.,

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King's printer

so printed, and see 45 & 46 Vict. c. 9, and 7 Edw. 7, c. 16, as to colonial and dominion Acts and Orders.

Indian Bishops

Indian Bishops. See COLONIAL CLERGY and the Government of India Act, 1915, ss. 115 to 123.

Light

PRESCRIPTION. The Prescription Act has not altered the previous law as to ancient lights, Colls v. Home and Colonial Stores, 1904 AC 179. And the right is to uninterrupted access of such light only as is ordinarily

Lighthouse

benefit, provides a scale of light dues and rules for levying them, and enacts that the expenses of Colonial lights are to be paid out of the General Lighthouse Fund. See FALSE LIGHTS. (Merchant Shipping (Mercantile Marine

Maritime Courts

his Majesty's possessions beyond the seas, with jurisdiction over maritime causes, including those relating to prize. See (English) Colonial Courts of Admiralty Act, 1890 (53 & 54 Vict. c. 27), and ss. 5 and 6of the Statute

Navy

Discipline Acts, 1884, 1909, 1915 (2), 1917, and 1922. See Chit. Stat., tit. 'Navy.' As to the self-governing Colonies, see the (English) Naval Discipline (Dominion Naval Forces) Act, 1911.

Notary or Notary Public

public off the roll (Re Champion, 1906, P. 86). As to its jurisdiction in the case of the Colonies, see Bailleau v. Victorian Society of Notaries, 1904, P. 180. In Scotland a notary public must now be

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