An Unauthorized Admiralty Court in British Columbia
Authors
Lionel H. Laing
Abstract
"The first Court of Vice-Admiralty to be set up in British Columbia was in existence for nine months before it was aware that the authority under which it was instituted and held pleas was illegal. Its story is part of the history of Vancouver's Island and illustrates once more how the resourceful Douglas was equal to a situation when it arose even if the remedy was extra-constitutional."
