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BRITISH POSSESSIONS

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Originally appearing in Volume V10, Page 63 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BRITISH POSSESSIONS .—The Judicature Acts of most of the Colonies have also adopted See also:English See also:Law. Parts of the See also:French See also:Code de See also:procedure civile are still in force in See also:Mauritius. But its provisions have been modified by See also:local enactment (No. 19 of 1868) as regards realty, and the rules of the Supreme See also:Court 1903 have introduced the English forms of writs. See also:Quebec and St See also:Lucia, where French law formerly prevailed, have now their own codes of See also:Civil Procedure. The law of See also:execution under the Quebec Code resembles the French, that under the St Lucia Code the English See also:system. In British See also:Guiana and See also:Ceylon, in which See also:Roman Dutch law in one See also:form or another prevailed, the English law of execution has now in substance been adopted (British Guiana Rules of Court, 1900, See also:Order See also:xxxvi.)., Ceylon (Code of Civil Procedure, No. 2 of 1889) ; the modes of execution in the See also:South See also:African Colonies are also the subject of local enactment, largely influenced by English law (cf. the Sheriffs' See also:Ordinance, 1902, No. 9 of 1902), (See also:Orange See also:River See also:Colony) and (See also:Proclamation 17 of 1902), See also:Transvaal (Nathan, See also:Common Law of South See also:Africa, vol. iv. p. 2206) ; and generally, See also:Van Zyl, Judicial Practice of South Africa, pp. 198 et seq.

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