Responsible government in the Dominions: Responsible government in the Dominions

Responsible government in the Dominions (Vol. 3)

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Author:: Keith, Arthur Berriedale http://d-nb.info/gnd/119086794

Title:: Responsible government in the Dominions

Place of publication:: Oxford

Publisher:: Clarendon Press

Year of publication:: 1912-

Collection:: Economics Books

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Identifikator:: 1896935311

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-237672

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Author:: Keith, Arthur Berriedale http://d-nb.info/gnd/119086794

Title:: Responsible government in the Dominions

Volume count:: Vol. 3

Place of publication:: Oxford

Publisher:: Clarendon Pr.

Year of publication:: 1912

Scope:: XII Seiten, Seiten 1102-1670

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Part V. Imperial control over Dominion administration and legislation

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CHAPTER XI HONOURS § 1. Titres or HoNOUR THE prerogative of honour is essentially one for the personal exercise of the Crown.! It is clear that the value of an honour depends entirely upon its being considered as a mark of royal favour, and that possession of an honour which was conferred merely by local authority would be of practically no value whatever. Moreover, if an honour were conferred locally it would only be valid within the local limits, and outside those limits it would have only such value as might be accorded to it by courtesy in other countries. On the other hand, it is the privilege of the Crown to confer honours which are valued throughout the Empire. Accordingly honours are never conferred in virtue of local Acts. It has, indeed, often been questioned whether an honour could be so conferred. It hardly seems possible to deny in the abstract that an Act could be passed empowering a Governor to confer titles of honour, but that such an Act should be approved by the Crown may be regarded as being at present impossible, and certainly there is no case on record of the passing or the approval by the Crown of such an enactment. The value of conferring honours on persons in the Colonies was insisted upon by Lord Elgin? when Governor-General ! For the prerogative, cf. 31 Hen. VIII. e. 10, quoted by Lord Macnaghten in Earl Cowley v. Countess Cowley, [1901] A. C. 450, at p. 456. * See Walrond, Letters and Journals of Lord Elgin, p. 114. Tt may be aoted that even a Governor-General cannot ¢ dub’ a man Knight; it is a power reserved for the Crown alone; even the Duke of Connaught on his visit to open the Union Parliament in 1910 did not receive the power. On the other hand, Governors-General and Governors are allowed to per- form investitures. Cf. Attorney-General for Dominion of Canada v. Attorney- General for Province of Ontario, [1898] A. C. 247, at p. 252; in re Bedard. 7 Moo. P. C, 23.

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