Excerpt from Chapters on the Law Relating to the Colonies: To Which Is Appended a Topical Index of Cases Decided in the Privy Council on Appeal From the Colonies, the Channel Islands, and the Isle of Man; Reported in Acton, Knapp, Moore, the Law Journal Reports, and the Law Reports, to July, 1882 The following pages are the result of an examination of the reports of cases decided in the Privy Council on appeal from the Colonies to the Sovereign and of an attempt to collect, arrange, and briefly describe the existing Statutes of the Imperial Parliament Which relate to the Colonies. It did not come Within the scope of the writer's design to treat of the great dependency of India. The Topical Index of Cases is intended to serve as a compendious guide to the volumes of the Privy Council Reports, so far as they are concerned with the Colonies. For the sake of completeness, however, the few cases from the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man have been added, though those territories can hardly be considered as Colonies, strictly speaking. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.