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APPENDIX A.

THE SOURCES OF THE CRIMINAL LAW OF DIFFERENT

COLONIES.

The following Table is designed to show roughly the source from which every Colony, including India, derives its criminal law, -

24 & 25 Vict., cc. 96-100.

NAME OF THE COLONY.

Bahamas

Barbados

Bermuda

Cyprus

Falkland Islands

Fiji

Gibraltar

Gambia

Hong Kong Jamaica ...

Lagos

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Leeward Islands New South Wales Newfoundland...

Nigeria (North) St. Helena

St. Vincent Sierra Leone

Tasmania

Trinidad

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ENACTMENT FORMING BASIS OF THE CRIMINAL LAW.

37 of 1865.

30 & 31 V., ce. 8-12.

2 of 1838, 10 of 1839.

I of 1878: Order in Council, 30 Nov

1882, rule 24.

3 of 1900, s. 31,

39 V., c. 14.

4 of 1889).

Order in Council, 21 Dec. 1883, 17 Nov.

1888.

4-8, 10 of 1865.

27 V,, cc. 32-34, 21-23 of 1872.

4 of 1876, s. 14.

15, 16, 20 of 1873.

40 of 1900.

Consol, Stats,, Title XII., s. 39.

Protectorate Courts, Proclamation, 1900.

2 of 1887.

290, 206, 300 of 1868.

9 of 1881, s. 19.

5-10 of 1863.

1-18 of 1849.

No. 1079 (Crimes Act, 1890.)

29 V., c. 5.

Victoria ...

Western Australia

ENGLISH CODE.

Canada

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55 & 56 V. c. 29.

Cape of Good Hope, Native

Territories:

(Tembuland, Pondoland, 24 of 1886.

and Griqualand, East.)

New Zealand

Queensland

South Australia

...

56 of 1893.

9 of 1899,

Now being drafted.

INDIAN PENAL CODE.

Ceylon

India Labuan

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45 of 1860.

4 of 1890.

Straits Settlement

4 of 1871.

Pahang

Perak ...

Selangor

9 of 1898.

G of 1884.

11 of 1893.

Negri Sembilan

7 of 1895.

British Honduras

Gold Const

Grenada ...

St. Lucia

~JAMAICA CODE.

Pt. XI., Ch. XXIVA.

No. 12 of 1892.

No. 2 of 1897.

No. 101 of the laws.

In the Cape of Good Hope the criminal law is the Roman-Dutch law (w/ the Charter of Justice, 1832, s. 31) modified by various enactments adapted from the English Acts of 1861. ́ As to Natal, see No. 12 of 1845

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Mauritius (6 of 1838) including Seychelles, follows the French Code; Malta has a code of its own, see Proclamation of 1854, a consolidated code of 1883, and an amending Ordnance of 1900,

British Guiana in No. 18 of 1893 has a code, the arrangement of which is taken from the Jamaica code, and the actual language from the Acts of 1861; while gaps are filled in by definitions and so forth taken from the English Code.