Re: "as if" in English law (olim: The Queen of England? ante: The Queen still Duchess of Edinburgh?)


CJ Buyers a écrit :

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One can very easily be King or Queen of a state or polity, without the
name of that state or polity ever appearing in the title. We have
already discussed the example of Canada and the other dominions before
1953, to say nothing of a vast array of territories in the former
British Empire or overseas territories today, where this is the case.
Similar examples abound from a number of other countries.

Yeah, just that's not because one is the King who rules over a country
that he is "King of Said-Country": there is a King ruling a state
called Belgium, but there is no King of Belgium, just a King of the
Belgians. There was no King of Canada before 1953. And England is not a
separate state: there is no more Queen of England than Queen of Walles,
or Queen of York.

Pierre

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