equity thereof." The intendment of this is that English law is to be a standard, 
and as far as subsequent imperial policy is concerned, the provisions of charters 
and commissions respecting the law-making power are to the same effect, 
and with scrupulous regard for the caveat of Coke and his fellow judges. The 
crown does not diminish its prerogative by an outright introduction of the 
law of England. This policy, consequently, has a double aspect so far as the 
extension of statutes is concerned. The pre-settlement acts of Parliament will 
have force only as adopted locally and even then, as we shall see, such adoption 
will be subject to control by prerogative. They cannot come riding in on the 
back of an explicit adoption of the common law. Future acts of Parliament 
will extend only if the plantations are named. The force of the Irish precedent 
on these points was enhanced by the publication in 1655 of Coke's report of 
the advisory opinion of the two Chief Justices and the Chief Baron on "Parliament 
in Ireland." 10 
The report of Calvin's Case remained for many a day the point of departure 
of subsequent judicial discourse respecting dominions not parcel of the realm. 
It assumes a focal point in Vaughan, C. J.'s report of Craw v. Ramsey (1670), n 
another case involving alienage where there is further discussion of an act 
of Parliament binding by explicit reference. This case is worthy of note, because 
Vaughan for the first time injects the conception of a dominion acquired 
by plantation as well as by conquest and because of his incautious statement 
that a writ of error lies at common law to reverse the judgments in any "inferior 
dominion." Subsequently, in his note Process into Wales, 12 this is repeated 
in a form to suggest an elaboration of Coke's remarks on the currency 
of mandatory writs. With singular inconsistency, however, Vaughan states 
flatly that the courts of England had earlier had nothing to do with the administration 
of justice in Wales "than now they have in the Western Islands, 
Barbados, St. Christophers, Nevis, New England ... all of which may be 
bound by law made respectively for them by an English Parliament; but most 
of them at present by law appointed and made by the King's letters patents, 
and the King's writs original or judicial from the Courts of Westminster go 
not there." 
Vaughan's suggestion that dominion could be acquired by plantation by 
10 12 Coke Rep. no. The substance of this had 
already been set forth in Fourth Institute, 350- 
51. To be noticed further is the possible precedent 
value of the statement respecting practice 
under Poynings' Law of submitting Irish acts to 
the crown. 
11 Vaughan 274. Cf. the argument in A True 
Relation of the just and unjust Proceedings of 
the Somer-lslands-Company (1675), 34, on the 
extension of the Statute of Uses to Bermuda 
that, "The statute of Uses cannot be a rule 
to judge uses by there. 1. The statute was made 
long before the discovery of the Islands, much 
more before the plantation, or peopling; and 
the statute in its creation could not be intended 
beyond England: much less by this Terra incognita. 
Other statutes reach not thither. The 
Court having declared that the statute De Donis 
for Entails doth not." 
12 Vaughan 395.