Sentence examples for colonial law from inspiring English sources

Colonial law distinguished between groups who could migrate and those who could not.

But there is a bigger obstacle than a colonial law: the United States.

But their hopes for the future run up against Javanese prejudices and unyielding Dutch colonial law.

India's highest court has agreed to review its decision to uphold a colonial law which criminalises same-sex relationships.

Three years ago Mr Najib scrapped a notorious colonial law, the Internal Security Act, which allowed indefinite detention without trial.

In overturning the 148-year-old colonial law, the Delhi High Court said the measure was an "antithesis of the right to equality".

Drawing on evidence from Maasai communities, she explores how the legacies of colonial law-making continue to influence contemporary efforts to create laws, codify marriage, criminalize FGM, and contest land grabs by state officials.

Colonial laws still stand in many other countries, too.

They also faced the uphill task of reforming outmoded colonial laws inherited from the British.

Decades without a legislature have left Myanmar over-reliant on British colonial laws.

Many of the laws that need to be reformed are British colonial laws, she said.