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ON THE

FOREIGN POWERS AND JURISDICTION

OF THE

BRITISH CROWN

BY

WILLIAM EDWARD HALL, M.A.

BARRISTER-AT-LAW

Oxford

AT THE CLARENDON PRESS

LONDON: HENRY FROWDE

OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS WAREHOUSE, AMEN CORNER

AND

STEVENS & SONS, LIMITED

119 & 120 CHANCERY LANE

1894
&

LIBRARY OF THE

LELAND STANFORD JR. UNIVERSITY.

A.44091

SEP 6 1900

Oxford

PRINTED AT THE CLARENDON PRESS

BY HORACE HART, PRINTER TO THE UNIVERSITY

PREFACE

THE following work is an attempt to define the powers and jurisdiction which the British Crown exercises or has a right to exercise in places not within the dominions of Great Britain, whatever the source may be from which such powers and jurisdiction are derived. The subject is one in which guidance from previous writers is almost wholly wanting; it has never yet been treated as a whole; even its different parts taken separately have not received adequate attention. Little published material exists outside Acts of Parliament, Treaties, Orders in Council, some important Parliamentary Papers, and a few cases decided in the Courts. In the main the work is naturally, and indeed necessarily, based upon these. It will, however, be evident to the reader that other information has been open to me. I have had the advantage of consulting friends whose official experience and position enabled them to place at my disposal a large amount of valuable material, both in the nature of facts and of opinions. Partly for reasons of official etiquette, and partly because what I have gathered on various questions has been so fused that the elements are often indistinguishable, I have found myself in many cases unable to cite authorities. But I take this

opportunity of expressing my gratitude to those who have helped me; and I will ask the reader to believe that when facts are mentioned, and when statements evidently based on facts are made, without the authority for them being given, or when views are impersonally expressed, what is said has been founded at least upon very careful inquiry. I venture to hope that little of importance will be found to be erroneous.

One well merited acknowledgement I am glad to be able to make. The work has been written in the country, and therefore under the disadvantage of remoteness from Law Reports and from foreign publications to which frequent reference was needed. The disadvantage would have been serious, had I not been able to draw upon the able assistance of my friend Mr. Beresford Atlay.

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