THE EXECUTIONS OF COLONIAL JUDGEMENTS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 1906, 4 February 1885, Page 2

THE EXECUTIONS OF COLONIAL JUDGEMENTS.

The oxecution of colonial judgments in England; and of English judgements in the colonies, is a subject which is receiving some attention both in England and in the colonies at the present time. Now, when colonial jugdments come before English courts they are treated as foreign judgements j the same principles are applied to them, and consequently the same difficulties arise in respect of them. By a recent statute the Parliament of New Zealand has determined that judgments of any courts in any of Her Majesties dominions may be registered in the courts of the colony, and execution issued upon them. The universal acceptance by Great Britain and her colonies of this principle would be of immence advantage to the commercial community, as the recent failure of tha Oriental Bank very clearly illustrates. It has been suggested that an imperial act should be passed extending the benefits of registration in England to colonial judgments, in the hope that the colonies would at once adopt the principle, and pass, similar .enactments. The economist, remarks : "Itktoodatei&rjthe mother country to take the land. New Zealand, has usurped' her proper place, but it js not too late—-

flow is, indeed, the proper lime—to follow the example already set, and take a much neededstep towards the ultimate consolidation of.all the courts acknowledging the appellate supremacy of the Privy Council and the House of Lords."—Anglo-New Zealander.