If differing circumstances of a new plantation Stat, at Large Pa., 497 [Mm], 523, 549—50; 
may make it necessary in many cases to make 3 ibid., 465), Georgia (4 APC, Col., #453, 
differing laws, and if every difference be 569), North Carolina (5 ibid., p. 39), Nova 
esteemed a repugnancy and contradiction, a Scotia (5 ibid., #438), South Carolina (4 
defamation or violation, of the laws of Eng- ibid., #452), and New Hampshire (CSP, Col., 
land, it were in effect to say that we must make 1717-18, #615, 627, 674). Governor Hart of 
no law at all, but refer our selves entirely to Maryland also urged approbation of an act 
the laws of the realm from whence we derive "seeming not to be agreeable to the laws of 
and whereon we depend" (Coleman to Francis England" (CSP, Col., 1714-15, #541). 
Wilks [?], Nov. 12, 1735; Coleman MSS, 27 Jeremiah Dummer, A Defense of the New-1735-63 
[Mass. Hist. Soc.]). See also the England Charters (1765 ed.), 66—70. The 
opinion of Michie, C. J., of the South Carolina author seemingly was opposed to testing the 
Court of Common Pleas in Williams, Admin- repugnancy of colonial acts by a vague standard 
istrator de bonis non v. Executors of Watson of English law; his standard was that of Eng(infra, 
p. 589). Instances can also be culled lish laws actually in force in the colonies, viz., 
from the legislative review process in which acts of Parliament specifically extended thereto, 
acts were said to vary from English laws or But he overlooked the fact that under the 
practice, but were not termed repugnant doctrine of such cases as Blankard v. Galdy 
thereto. See examples from Pennsylvania (2 (Holt K.B. 341) the laws of England at the