Part II, Chapter II
Notes
- Morris, vol.ii, p.80.
- “The British Empire is a galaxy of free States,” said Sir W. Laurier in a speech, July 8, 1902.
- In all essential features India and Egypt are to be classed as Crown colonies.
- “Every country conquered or ceded to the Crown of England retains such laws and such rules of law (not inconsistent with the general law of England affecting dependencies) as were in force at the time of the conquest or cession, until they are repealed by competent authority. Now, inasmuch as many independent States and many dependent colonies 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).