British Columbia
British Columbia was considered to be a settled colony and therefore received English law automatically, under the principle set out by Blackstone.
Read more about this topic: Common Law, History, Propagation of The Common Law To The Colonies and Commonwealth By Reception Statutes, Initial Reception of English Common Law Into New Colonies, and Adoption of Common Law On Decolonizat
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—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)
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—The Columbia Encyclopedia, Fifth Edition, the first sentence of the article on “life” (based on wording in the First Edition, 1935)