Note 1062 — Chapter XV · DIVORCE IN THE AMERICAN COLONIES

Bishop, Mar., Div., and Sep., I, § 116. "If an uninhabited country is discovered and planted by British subjects, the English laws are said to be in force there, for the law is the birthright of every subject."—Story, Commentaries, I, §§ 147 ff. Cf. Kent, Commentaries, I, 343, 473; and Blackstone, Commentaries, I, 107, who regards the colonies as a conquered country.