Statute of Westminster
Britishnoun
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Fifteen years after Gallipoli, the Statute of Westminster wound up the Empire as far as the old dominions were concerned and all the bits were free.
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2011
And then, of course, you’d have to repeat it again, in 1931, with the signing of the Statute of Westminster, and in 1982, when Queen Elizabeth II signed the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
From Salon ● Feb. 12, 2010
The 1931 Statute of Westminster removed from Britain the right to withhold consent to laws passed by Dominion Parliaments.
From Time Magazine Archive
Back in 1929 Lawyer Burchell helped draft the historic Statute of Westminster, which defined the British Dominions' status as free and sovereign nations, united only in common allegiance to the Crown.
From Time Magazine Archive
Previously to the Statute of Westminster II., a judgment creditor could only have the profits of lands of a debtor in satisfaction of his judgment, but not the possession of the lands themselves.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 3 "Electrostatics" to "Engis" by Various
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