of other States have become English dependencies, many of the English dependencies have retained wholly or in part foreign systems of jurisprudence. Thus Trinidad retains much of the Spanish law; Demerara, Cape of Good Hope, and Ceylon retain much of Dutch law; Lower Canada retains the French civil law according to the ‘coutume de Paris’; St. Lucia retains the old French law as it existed when the island belonged to France” (Lewis, Government of Dependencies, p.198).
- Caldecott, English Colonisation and Empire, p. 121.
- Lo que la «elasticidad» significa en realidad en el gobierno de la Oficina Colonial puede ilustrarse con el siguiente testimonio de