Legal glossary

“british possession”

Defined in 1 Acts. A definition holds for the Act that gives it; the same word can mean something else in another Act.
  1. The Reciprocity Act, 1943 · s. 2

    (a) "British Possession" means any part of His Majesty's dominions 6 * and includes a protectorate or other territory administered by a British Possession as a mandatory on behalf of the League of Nations; and where parts of those dominions are under both a central and a local legislature, the expression shall mean either each part under a local legislature or all parts under the central legislature;]
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