Excerpt from The Royal Disallowance At the same time the board and its advisers were always ready to stretch a point if an act was a real advantage, or what they thought was a real advantage to the colony, even though the law might be objec tionable on other grounds. Laws that concerned only the private affairs or domestic economy of the province, if proper, were allowed to stand, even though they were unlike anything known in England. Such, for example, were the Pennsylvania poor law and the Virginia act dealing with the method of trying criminals and the practice of pleading in court. The Pennsylvania act barring entailed estates was allowed in 1751, even though the legal adviser reported against it, because the people wanted it. Other acts were allowed, even though they differed more or less from the law of England, either because they were founded on local custom and usage and were not in consistent with reason and natural justice, or because they were wise and proper and of importance to the happiness and prosperity of the people. In the case of St. Vincent in 1711, the board was not willing to press the customary laws of settled colonies or of England upon a newly settled island struggling with difficulties, danger, and insecurity. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.