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Home Dictionary Name: newfoundlandWestminster, 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...
Capelin
Either of two small marine fishes formerly classified in the family Salmonidaelig now within the smelt family Osmeridae Mallotus villosus very abundant on the coasts of Greenland Iceland Newfoundland and Alaska or Mallotus catervarius found in the North Pacific The Atlantic variety has been used as a bait for the cod...
Chebacco
A narrow sterned boat formerly much used in the Newfoundland fisheries called also pinkstern and chebec...
Fog belt
A region of the ocean where fogs are of marked frequency as near the coast of Newfoundland...
Kibblings
Portions of small fish used for bait on the banks of Newfoundland...
Labrador
A region of British America on the Atlantic coast north of Newfoundland...
Newfoundland
An island on the coast of British North America famed for the fishing grounds in its vicinity...
Anglo-French Convention Act, 1904
Anglo-French Convention Act, 1904 (English) (4 Edw. 7, c. 33), ratifies the Convention between His Majesty the King and the President of the French Republic dealing with disputes which had arisen respecting rights of fishing off Newfoundland. The Convention is scheduled to the Act....
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....
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 ...
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