Rambles among the Channel Islands / by a Naturalist.

Date:
[1855?]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Rambles among the Channel Islands / by a Naturalist. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    however, may be carried by appeal from the local jurisdictions to the Privy Council. No writ out of any other Court in England runs into the Channel Islands with the exception of writs of Habeas Corpus, and it is only of late years, after a strenuous opposition, that the registry of the Act of Habeas Corpus has been insisted on. It is even now next to a dead letter; for, in the few instances in which a writ has been issued, on its being shown that the person applying for it was incarcerated by sen- tence of a Court having competent jurisdiction, the matter has dropped without any further investigation being gone into. Another and valuable immunity is the ex- emption from taxation for the general purposes of the empire. It is of course clear that com- munities having no representatives in Parlia- ment could not with any fairness be subjected by that body to taxation; but, besides this, the inhabitants of the Channel Islands have another strong claim for exemption;—This is the per- sonal service which every able-bodied man, in every rank of life, from the age of sixteen to sixty, is bound to perform without fee or re- ward, in the ranks of the local militia. This corps has existed from the earliest times; and although, in time of peace, only called out for exercise four or five times in the year, is