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British Columbia, the territory on the north-west coast of North America, once known by the designation of New Caledonia. See BRITISH AMERICA....
Vancouver's Island
Vancouver's Island. See 12 & 13 Vict. c. 48; 21 & 22 Vict. c. 99, s. 6; 29 & 30 Vict. c. 67 (providing for union with British Columbia); 33 & 34 Vict. c. 66, and British North America Act, 1930 (20 & 21 Geo. 5, c. 26), confirming the agreement between British Columbia and the Dominion of Canada....
carnal knowledge
carnal knowledge : an act of esp. illegal sexual intercourse [whoever has carnal knowledge of a female forcibly and against her will "District of Columbia Code Annotated"] ;also : the crime of committing such an act [was charged with carnal knowledge of a juvenile] see also rape NOTE: Carnal knowledge is sometimes an element of the statutory definition of rape in addition to being a separate offense. ...
court of appeals
court of appeals often cap C&A : a court hearing appeals from the decisions of lower courts: as a : an intermediate court of the U.S. federal judicial system b : a state appellate court called also court of appeal see also the Judicial System in the back matter NOTE: Not all of the states have intermediate-level courts but of those that do, many are called the Court of Appeals or, in California and Louisiana, the Court of Appeal. In Hawaii, such a court is called the Intermediate Court of Appeals. In some states, appeals are divided between a court of criminal appeals and a court of civil appeals. In the District of Columbia, Maryland, and New York the court of last resort is called the Court of Appeals, and the intermediate court in Maryland is called the Court of Special Appeals. In West Virginia the court of last resort is called the Supreme Court of Appeals. In England the Court of Appeal is a division of the Supreme Court of Judicature. ...
Durham rule
Durham rule [from Durham v. United States, 214 F.2d 862 (1954), a case heard by the District of Columbia Court of Appeals that established the rule] : a rule of criminal law used in some states that holds that in order to find a defendant not guilty by reason of insanity the defendant's criminal act must be the product of a mental disease or defect compare irresistible impulse test, m'naghten test, substantial capacity test ...
Chouicha
The salmon of the Columbia River or California See Quinnat...
Columbia
America the United States a poetical appellation given in honor of Columbus the discoverer...
Kodiak bear
A large brown bear Ursus middendorffi syn Ursus arctos middendorffi of coastal Alaska and British Columbia related to the grizzly bear called also Kodiak bear...
maiden blue eyed mary
A small widely branching Western wildflower Collinsia parviflora with tiny blue and white flowers found from British Columbia to Ontaria and south to California and Colorado...
British America
British America. See Fur Trade Act, (1 & 2 Geo. 4, c. 66), North-Western Territories Act (22 & 23 Vict. c. 26), and the British North America Act, 1867 (30 & 31 Vict. c. 3), by which the Dominion of Canada was formed by the union of the provinces of Canada, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick. Manitoba joined the Union in 1870, British Columbia in 1871, and Prince Edward Island in 1873. Outlaying British possessions were added by Order in Council in 1880, and Newfoundland alone remains independent. The Act of 1867 was amended by the British North America and other Acts, all referred to collectively as the British North America Acts, 1867 to 1930. See STATUTE OF WESTMINSTER....
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