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may
be necessary to provide
that the Law of England in
to be in force there.
that
But
Rule unqualified
by exceptions we create
More
Remove
many
difficulties than it wo?
Get into detail
minutely what part of the
Law of England
is regarded
to be
in applicable to
European
the Colony and its Inhabitants would be
a practicable task. The normal
solution of these difficulties
probably
is
any
convenient
which can be found.
It consists in qualifying
the
General declaration that the Law of England shall be in
force
by
an exception almost
general - namely that no
part of that Law shall
be considered in force which
may
be inapplicable to the
local circumstances of
the
Colony or of its Inhabitants.
The question of applicability
Then
becomes
in the
first instance a Judicial
question to be decided in the Courts in each particular
case
as it arises. If any
such Judicial decision appears
to the local Legislature unsound