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Frits Brandsma
The Privy Council, or more appropriately called tbe Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, was and is the highest court of appeal for many current and former Commomoealth-countries, overseas teritories and crown dependencies of the United Kingdom. In that capacity the Committee has the task to judge according to many different kinds of law, because since Calvin's Case (1608) Sir Edward Coke's doctrine holds in lands conquered from Christian kings the existing laws remained in force unless and until they were formally replaced by English law. It had to administer Roman-Dutch law from South Africa or from Ceylon, or French law from Quebec, or the common law of England from Ontario, or curious mixtures of law which prevail in various colonies, sometimes Roman law. One of the cases decided by the Privy Council dealt with Roman law as applied in the jurisdiction of the Parlement de Paris in France in the seventeenth century, in a nineteenth-century casef rom Quebec
