Colony
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia · John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
A union of citizens or subjects who have left their country to people another, and remain subject to the mother-country.
U. S. v. The Nancy, 3 Wash. C. C. 287, Fed. Cas. No. 15,854.
A tract of territory subordinate to the inhabitants of a different tract of country, and ruled by authorities wholly or in part responsible to the main administration, instead of to the people of their own region, quoted by J. B. Thayer (Legal Essays 166) from Prof. Hart. In conquered or ceded countries, their laws remain in force until changed, but where a colony is planted in an uninhabited country, the colonists carry with them all the English laws that are applicable to their condition; 1 Steph. Com. 6-7. The country occupied by the colonists. A colony differs from a possession or a dependency. See Dependency. A province of Canada is not a British colony or dependency; [1911] 2 Ch. 58. See Burge, Colonial Laws, by Renton & Phillimore.