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the general principle that no Law be made repugnant to the Law of England.
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The Duch-stions 100, I hunt, repletly sufficiently explicit. The general Rule which I have quoted is not ambiguous, but has been long settled that still greater precision is required to enable the attempt to enbilitate a more General interpretation.
however, the words "repugnant to the Law of England" are understood as prohibiting all local Enactments which would interfere with the operation of any British Statute extending to the Island; and as prohibiting all Enactments conceived in a spirit or founded on principles at variance with the spirit and the principles of the Law of England. The Rule, so understood, of course differs and implies the absence of local circumstances which would command and render inevitable a departure from the spirit and principles of English Laws. Recognising the right, of course, to justify such deviation which circumstances and necessity would accustom and define, which