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African Law and the Historian

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 January 2009

Jay Gordon
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The Journal of African History , Volume 8 , Issue 2 , July 1967 , pp. 335 - 340
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1967

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4 Ibid. 496.

5 West African legal opinions on juries at Lagos and the Gold Coast can be found in the following letters and dispatches: Smith to Griffith, 21 March 1881, and Macleod to Rowe, 19 April 1882, in Rowe to Kimberley, 17 April 1882, CO 96/139; Bailey to Rowe, 29 April 1882, and Watt to Rowe, 6 May 1882, in Rowe to Kimberley, 11 May 1882, CO 147/50; Marshall to Bramston, 15 June 1882, CO 96/147.Google Scholar

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