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BRITISH DOMINIONS BEYOND THE SEAS

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Originally appearing in Volume V26, Page 80 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BRITISH DOMINIONS BEYOND THE SEAS .—The legislation of British possessions as to See also:summary See also:jurisdiction follows the lines of See also:English legislation, but, and especially in See also:crown colonies, there is a disposition to dispense with the See also:jury more than under English See also:procedure, and in most colonies stipendiary magistrates are more freely employed than unpaid justices of the See also:peace (see British See also:Guiana, Ord. No. to of 1893). Many of the colonial criminal codes include a number of offences punishable on summary conviction. The procedure closely follows English See also:models, but has in many cases been consolidated and simplified (e.g. See also:Victoria, Justices See also:Act 1890, No. 1105; British Guiana, Ord. No. 12 of 1893). In many colonies stipendiaries and justices of the peace exercise See also:civil jurisdiction as to matters dealt with in See also:England by the See also:county See also:court (e.g. British Guiana, Ord. No. tt of 1893).

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