ABSENTEES, how far liable to civil process of Consular Courts, 198, 200 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 ADMINISTRATION see PROBATE, of estate of deceased insolvent, 216a ADMINISTRATIVE POWER,” exercise of, 158 referable to treaty grant, 158, 162, 163 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 booty of war, 115 under Admiralty Court Act, 1861 building, repairing, &c., ships, 115 necessaries, 115 ADMIRALTY JURISDICTION--continued. under Naval Prize Act, 114, 117, see Prize. Slave Trade Acts, 114, 119, see Slave Trade. appeals, 121 Rules of Court, 121 dead bodies found at sea, 128 high sea sections in Criminal Law Consolidation Acts, application of, 191 its position in jurisdiction exercised over foreigners, 175 nature of privilege of, 3 ANGLO-INDIAN DOMICIL, considered and explained, 222 ANGLO-ORIENTAL DOMICIL, cannot be acquired, 222 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 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 administration orders against small judgment debtors, 216 Zanzibar, 216a in Turkish Capitulations, 216a jurisdiction to award, 119 BRITISH COURTS, Consular Court auxiliary to, in bankruptcy, 142, 215 BRITISH LAW ASCERTAINMENT ACT, operation of Act as applied, 94 not applicable to ascertainment of law of oriental country, 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 exercised in accordance with English Law, 139 form of Order of 1865, 140 extra-territorial, how far Consular Court may exercise, 198 competence of Consular Court, how far the same as of English Courts, 199 |