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 VI. The judiciary

Collection:: Economics Books

CHAPTER II ADMIRALTY JURISDICTION ApMIRALTY jurisdiction! in civil matters has been simplified and extended by the Colonial Courts of Admiralty Act, 1890.2 under s. 2 of which every Court of law in a British possession which is for the time being declared to be a Court of Admiralty and which has therein original unlimited civil jurisdiction shall be a Court of Admiralty, and for the purposes of this Admiralty jurisdiction exercise all the powers which are possessed in its ordinary jurisdiction. The jurisdiction of a Colonial Court of Admiralty is assimilated by the Act to the Admiralty jurisdiction of the High Court in England, and the Colonial Court of Admiralty may exercise such jurisdiction in like manner and to as full an extent as the High Court in England, and shall have the same regard as that Court to international law and the comity of nations. Any references to Vice-Admiralty Courts in Imperial or Colonial enactments are to apply to Colonial Courts of Admiralty, with the necessary changes of terminology, but the jurisdiction under the Naval Prize Act, 1864, and under the Slave Trade Act, 1873, which is conferred exclusively on the High Court of Admiralty or the High Court of Justice, a8 distinet from the Vice-Admiralty Courts. shall not be ! Under this head will also be treated jurisdiction conferred by Imperial Acts in other matters not technically Admiralty jurisdiction. Cf. Quick and Garran, Constitution of Commonwealth, pp. 797 seq. * As regards criminal offences the Admiralty Offences (Colonial) Act, 1849, rules the position ; the Act of 1890 was intended to simplify and extend the civil jurisdiction of Colonial Courts, and to supersede the Imperial Vice-Admiralty Courts already existing, which were regulated by the Acts 26 & 27 Vict. c¢. 24 and 30 & 31 Vict. c. 45. Cf. Barton v. The Queen, 2 Moo. P. Ct. 19; Rolet v. The Queen, 1 P. C. 198. Piracy is justiciable by the Colonial Courts also by international law, and see Forsyth, Causes and Npinions on Constitutional Law, pp. 90-118.

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