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The Reception and Restriction of English Commercial Law in Ceylon1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 January 2008

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Copyright © British Institute of International and Comparative Law 1969

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References

1 Similar problems have been considered elsewhere. See Bartholomew, The Commercial Law of Malaysia (1965), Malaya Law Journal Ltd.; Quttman, “ Reception of the Common Law in the Sudan ” (1957) 6 I.C.L.Q. 401; Yadin, “ Reception and Rejection of Engliih Law in Israel ” (1962) 11 I.C.LQ. 59.

It is not possible to examine the extent of the reception of English law in general within the compass of this article. Hence it is limited to a consideration of commercial law in its more important fields.