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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/colonial-courts-of-admiralty-act-1890/section-15",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/53-54/27",
  "legislation_title": "Colonial Courts of Admiralty Act 1890",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/colonial-courts-of-admiralty-act-1890",
  "path": "section/15",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "15",
  "heading": "Interpretation.",
  "text": "In the construction of this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,—\nThe expression “representative legislature” means, in relation to a British possession, a legislature comprising a legislative body of which at least one half are elected by inhabitants of the British possession.\nThe expression “unlimited civil jurisdiction” means civil jurisdiction unlimited as to the value of the subject-matter at issue, or as to the amount that may be claimed or recovered.\nThe expression “judgment” includes a decree, order, and sentence.\nThe expression “appeal” means any appeal, rehearing, or review; and the expression “local appeal” means an appeal to any court inferior to Her Majesty in Council.\nThe expression “Colonial law” means any Act, ordinance, or other law having the force of legislative enactment in a British possession and made by any authority, other than the Imperial Parliament or Her Majesty in Council, competent to make laws for such possession.",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/53-54/27/section/15",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:34:10.821338+00:00"
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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