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focentry
The Attorney General objected
that in matters
this kind, the Law of
of the
land did not apply. I offered to
England
postpone
the trial with a view to a
a jury
de medietate when the claim was
1
Now supporing
immediately waived. Now
the trial to have been put off for this purpose,
and in the interval - it had been accertained
that such a
e-gurg
could not
be
empannel'd.,
I should have felt no difficulty in holding that in this particular instance_ the Law of England was in applicable
that in
" Perhaps Tought also to mention-
passing.
sentence of death. I mit that portion of the English form of contence which
requires that the prisoner should be buried within the precincts of the prison. This I have taken upon myself to do having learned - from Major faine that
[ form of burial would be impracticable
such
1
in
in the
present state There
can.
of the prison. however be no
513
objection
manner.
the in
English-
to the fudge reporting in the suggested any departure from Law on the ground of its inapplicability to the Colony. Unless we continue to
apply
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the-
Law of England as heretofore, in acendance with the directions in despatch No 8 of
we must have
large
volumes
to meet the diversity of cases
1843,
for. of Ordinances
that must arise".
Secondly, As to the prevalence of the
English - Law of real - property in Hongkong
of all
all lands
the
The circumstance within the folony in the possession of individuals being held by Lease-
e-from Crown must greatly simplify the questions that can arise under this head. The
instruction in. Despatch No 8 already
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referred to enjoins that the right of
luce alt.