. Timehri. igants in British Guiana. And since (to quote the Report of theCommon Law Commission, p. 21) the serious study of the [Roman-Dutch] common law is a matter of years of patient labour. . the pros-pect of decisions on [that] law by West Indian judges based upon casualstudy for tiie purpose of trying isolated cases is not attractive. Theconclusion drawn from this state of things was that such parts of theRoman-Dutch law as it was desired to preserve for the Colony should beembodied in an Ordinance, and the remainder abolished. This, as alreadyexplained, has now been done. Some doubt may
. Timehri. igants in British Guiana. And since (to quote the Report of theCommon Law Commission, p. 21) the serious study of the [Roman-Dutch] common law is a matter of years of patient labour. . the pros-pect of decisions on [that] law by West Indian judges based upon casualstudy for tiie purpose of trying isolated cases is not attractive. Theconclusion drawn from this state of things was that such parts of theRoman-Dutch law as it was desired to preserve for the Colony should beembodied in an Ordinance, and the remainder abolished. This, as alreadyexplained, has now been done. Some doubt may, however, be expressedwhether, even so, an Ordinance resting in fact on a basis of Roman-Dutch law can be satisfactorily handled and interpreted by a Court thatmakes no claim to have knowledge of that law. 1 Appeals from the Colonics in question to the King in Council are not numerous. Inthe five years commencing in 1910 there were only five—three from Trinidad and Tobago, andtwo from British Colonel ROOSEVELT and Dr. NlXAN. TIMEHRI:
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