Dominion - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: dominionDominion (His Majesty's)
Dominion (His Majesty's). The Statute of West-minster (22 Geo. 5, c. 4), s. 1, provides: 'In this Act the expression Dominion means any of the following Dominions ,that is to say, the Dominion of Canada, the Commonwealth of Australia 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...
Dominion Register
Dominion Register. A branch register of members in any part of His Majesty's Dominions where a company registered under the Companies Act, 1929, may be carrying on business, of the names of members resident in that part. The register is to be kept in the same manner as the principal register. Any reference to colonial registers in Articles shall be construed as references to Dominion registers. See (English) Companies Act, 1929, ss. 103 et seq...
dominion
dominion 1 a : supreme authority : sovereignty b : a territory over which such authority is exercised c often cap : a self-governing nation (as Canada) of the Commonwealth other than the United Kingdom that acknowledges the British monarch as the head of state 2 : the power (as authority) or right (as ownership) to use or dispose of property ;specif : absolute or exclusive use, control, ownership, or possession of property [the transferred property is placed beyond the donor's and control "W. M. McGovern, Jr. et al."] [the bailee exercised over the vehicle] ...
Dominion Day
In Canada a legal holiday July lst being the anniversary of the proclamation of the formation of the Dominion in 1867...
Old Dominion
Virginia a name of uncertain origin perh from the old designation of the colony as ldquothe Colony and Dominion of Virginiardquo...
Adverse dominion
Adverse dominion, means doctrine that tolls the limitation period for claims against wrongdoing directors and officers of a corporation while they are in control of the corporation. The purpose of this doctrine is to prevent a director or officer from successfully hiding wrongful or fraudulent conduct during the limitations period, FDIC v. Shrader & York, 91 F. 2d 216, 227 (5th Cir. 1993)....
Alien
Alien [fr. alienigena, alibi natus, Lat.], a person not born within His Majesty's dominions and allegiance (q.v.). See definitions in the British Nationality and Status of Aliens Acts, 1914 and 1933, infra. At common law aliens were subject to very many disqualifications, the nature of which is shown by the (English) Act of 1844, 7 & 8 Vict. c. 66, which greatly relaxed the law in their favour. It provided, inter alia, that every person born of a British mother should be capable of holding real or personal estate; that alien friends might hold every species of personal property except chattels real; that subjects of a friendly power might hold lands, etc., for the purposes of residence or business for a term not exceeding twenty-one years; and it also provided for aliens becoming naturalized.Alien, (UK) is a person who is neither a Common-wealth citizen nor a British protected person nor a citizen of the Republic of Ireland. Aliens therefore include both persons having the nationality ...
Westminster, Statute of, 1931
Westminster, Statute of, 1931 922 Geo. 5, c. 4). This Act was passed to confirm and ratify certain declarations made by the delegates to the Imperial Conferences of 1926 and 1930. Six Dominions are affected: Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, the Irish Free State, and Newfoundland. The arrangement is as follows:-S. 1. 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. 3. Power of Parliament of Dominion to legislate extra-territorially.S. 4. Parliament of United Kingdom not to legislate for 'Dominion' except by consent.S. 5. Powers of Dominion Parliaments in relation to shipping.S. 6. Powers of Dominion Parliaments in relation to Courts of Admiralty.S. 7. Saving for British North America Acts and application of Act to Canada.S. 8. Saving for Constitution Acts of Australia and New Zealand.S. 9. Saving with respect to State of Australi...
Colony
Colony [fr. colo, Lat., to cultivate], a settlement in a foreign country possessed and cultivated, either wholly or partially, by immigrants and their descendants, who have a political connection with and subordination to the mother-country whence they emigrated. In other words, it is a place peopled from some more ancient city or country.England was not the first among European nations that planted settlements in parts beyond Europe. But by her own colonization, and by the conquests of the settlements of other nations, she was now acquired a more extensive dominion of colonies and dependencies than any other nation. The colonies of Great Britain exceed in number, extent, and value those of every other country.In an Act of Parliament (English) passed after 1889 the expression 'colony' means by s. 18(3), of the Interpretation Act, 1889, 'any part of her Majesty's dominions, exclusive of the British Islands and of British India, and where parts of such dominions are under both a central ...
British possession
British possession, shall mean any part of Her Majesty's dominions exclusive of the United Kingdom, and where parts of those dominions are under both a Central and a Local Legislature, all part under the Central Legislature shall for the purposes of this definition, be deemed to be one British possession. [General Clauses Act, 1897 (10 of 1897), s. 3 (6)]Means the contrary intention appears, any part of Her Majesty's dominions except the United Kingdom, where parts of such dominions are under both a central and a local legislature, all parts under the Central legislature are to be deemed to be one British possession, Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 6, 4th Edn., Para 804, p. 351.British possession does not include any place within the United Kingdom, the Isle of Man or the Channel Islands, but includes all other places being parts of Her Majesty's dominions, Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 6, 4th Edn., Para 1005, p. 490....
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