how far liable to civil process of Consular Courts, 198, 200
ACT OF PARLIAMENT,

power of Courts to disobey, considered, 31

variance between Act and treaty, 36

ACT OF STATE,

proof of, in Consular Court, 89

ADAPTATION,

of laws, principles governing, 79
"as far as circumstances admit," 80
form of general clause, 81

ADMINISTRATION see PROBATE,

of estate of deceased insolvent, 216a

ADMINISTRATIVE POWER,

exercise of, 158

referable to treaty grant, 158, 162, 163
exercised through Minister, 159

ADMIRALTY JURISDICTION,

Colonial Courts of, Act applied, 113

of Supreme Consular Court, 114

the same as High Court in England, 115

application of Imperial Acts relating to Vice-Admiralty Courts, 114

in criminal matters, 114

in respect of the Navy, 114

outside "limits of the Order," 114

procedure in slave trade offences, 114

under Admiralty Court Act, 1840

claims of mortgagees, 115

title in causes of possession, 115

claims for services or necessaries, 115

high sea sections in Criminal Law Consolidation Acts, application of, 191
ADMIRALTY OFFENCES,

its position in jurisdiction exercised over foreigners, 175
AMBASSADOR,

BANKRUPTCY-continued.

persons who may be made bankrupt, 210
their debtors and creditors, 210
double use of "resident," 210

suggested definition of jurisdiction, 211
compared with English definition, 211
narrow construction justified, 211

firms, 211

cannot commit act of bankruptcy, 212

acts of bankruptcy, 212

summary of, which may be committed “in China or elsewhere," 212
meaning of "elsewhere," 213

not extra-territorial, 213

"being or remaining out of China," 213

service of bankruptcy notice, 214

declaration of inability to pay debts, 214

extent of the jurisdiction, 214

debtors who may be sued, and creditors who may prove, 214
power of trustee to recover debts, 214

limited to property in China, 215

English definition of property inapplicable, 215

Consular Court to be auxiliary to British Courts, 215
British Courts not auxiliary to Consular Court, 216

English warrants not executable by Consular Court, 216
jurisdiction in small bankruptcies, 216

administration orders against small judgment debtors, 216
administration of insolvent estates of deceased debtors, 216
provisions of treaty with Muscat, 216a

Zanzibar, 216a

in Turkish Capitulations, 216a

Consular Court auxiliary to, in bankruptcy, 142, 215
concurrent jurisdiction in matrimonial causes, 146

BRITISH LAW ASCERTAINMENT ACT,

operation of Act as applied, 94

not applicable to ascertainment of law of oriental country, 95
applications by Consular Courts under, 95

BRITISH SETTLEMENT ACT,

sanctions issue of Orders in Council for occupied colonies, 20

BRITISH SUBJECT,

offences by, on high seas, 65

definition of in Order in Council, 68

duty to register, 163

consequences of failure, 164

suits by, in foreign Consular Court, 181

enforcement of fees due by British Court, 181

BULGARIA,

operation of Capitulations in, 276

BURMAH,

jurisdiction of Courts in, 167

CANTON RIVER,

estuary, waters of China, 103

"CESSION OR CONQUEST" PRINCIPLE,

delegation of powers to Colonial Legislatures comes within, 17

reference to, in Act, 22

principle examined, 23

use of expression justified, 24

CHANDERNAGORE,

Franco-Indian domicil at, 223

extra-territorial, how far Consular Court may exercise, 198

competence of Consular Court, how far the same as of English Courts, 199
probably confined to usual residence, 200