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Excerpt from A Collection of the Judgments of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council
N ow such a Court may have assumed its distinctive form in virtue of the original contract according to which the rela tions of Church and State were settled, either in their first union or after some momentous political or ecclesiastical revolution: or it may have grown to its existing development in the course of years through changes sanctioned by the distinct legislation or the acquiescence of the two contracting bodies. The opinion is widely spread, that, when the power of the Crown as exercised through the Court of Delegates was trans ferred, first to the Privy Council in 1832, and, secondly, to the Judicial Committee of that body in 1833, amid the variety of causes, testamentary and the like, coming before that Court. 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.