DOCSLIB.ORG

Vanguard Investment Stewardship Insights Voting Insights: Independent Chair Proposal and Lobbying Disclosure at Dominion Energy

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
Vanguard Investment Stewardship Insights Voting Insights: Independent Chair Proposal and Lobbying Disclosure at Dominion Energy Vanguard Investment Stewardship Insights Voting Insights: Independent chair proposal and lobbying disclosure at Dominion Energy May 2021 Vanguard publishes Investment Stewardship Insights to promote good governance practices and to provide investors and public companies with our perspectives on important governance topics and issues that come up for shareholder votes. Analysis and voting rationale Company: Dominion Energy Inc. (Dominion) Vanguard has held meaningful engagements with members of Meeting date: May 5, 2021 Dominion’s board over many years, including several discussions Proposals: Item 4—Report on Lobbying Payments and Policy; this past year that covered oversight of climate-related strategy Item 5—Require Independent Board Chair and risks. In our latest engagement, board members provided details on several recent enhancements to the governance process, namely: How the funds voted • Separation of the nomination and governance committee At the annual meeting for Dominion Energy, a from the compensation and talent management committee U.S.-based utility company, the Vanguard funds voted against two shareholder proposals. The first • Transition of the audit chair responsibilities away from proposal requested that the board annually publish a report the lead independent director so that person can focus on outlining its oversight of political lobbying activities and the oversight responsibilities company’s lobbying expenditures. The second proposal requested • Succession planning in the wake of the company’s recent that the board adopt a policy that an independent director serve leadership announcements as board chair. We appreciated that the board was receptive to shareholder feedback in implementing these changes. In particular, we Vanguard’s principles and policies were encouraged by the clarity in board committee and role A company’s board of directors should be independent, diverse, structures, the additional attention paid to succession planning, and capable of overseeing strategy and material risks. and the strengthened role of the lead independent director. In light of the company’s recent changes, the Vanguard funds did A company’s political lobbying activity is one of the many not support the shareholder proposal seeking an independent potential material risks that an independent board must oversee. chair, as we do not believe it is warranted at this time. Vanguard believes that poor governance of lobbying activity, coupled with misalignment to a company’s stated strategy or Dominion also received a proposal seeking more comprehensive a lack of transparency about the activity, could manifest into disclosure of its lobbying activities, both direct (hiring lobbyists financial, legal, and reputational risks that can affect long-term to influence legislation) and indirect (informing public opinion value for Vanguard funds. by supporting third-party organizations). Strong independent leadership is a responsibility of a company’s We evaluated Dominion’s disclosures relative to its peers and board. The Vanguard funds will consider supporting proposals industry standards; our analysis showed that its disclosures seeking an independent chair if we believe that there has been were comparable and that, directionally, Dominion continues to a material failure in risk oversight and that the role will enhance make progress in improving its approach. We gave the board a company’s board leadership and benefit shareholders. feedback that the company could further enhance its disclosures For institutional and sophisticated investors only. Not for public distribution. by more clearly demonstrating how its federal and state What we expect from companies on this matter lobbying expenditures and trade association memberships On behalf of Vanguard funds, we expect boards to represent align with the company’s climate-related positions, strategy, the interests of all shareholders and to make independent and ambitions. decisions about a company’s leadership, strategy, and risks to long-term value. Before the shareholder meeting, Dominion filed a revised policy document regarding its political contributions and lobbying; We also expect boards to oversee corporate political activity the document demonstrated directional consistency with the across their enterprise and to communicate the company’s shareholder proposal’s requests and sufficiently addressed philosophy and policies to investors. We look for companies to Vanguard’s feedback. Because of this update, and because disclose the oversight policies and structures they have in place of the board’s responsiveness to shareholder feedback, the to ensure the political activity’s alignment with the company’s Vanguard funds did not support the shareholder proposal this philosophy and long-term strategy. year. Vanguard will continue to monitor Dominion’s progress consistent with industry standards and expectations. INSDOM_052021 © 2021 The VanguardFor institutional Group, Inc. and sophisticated investors only. Not for public distribution. Important Information VIGM, S.A. de C.V. Asesor en Inversiones Independiente (“Vanguard Mexico”) Materials are provided only for their exclusive use and shall not be distributed registration number: 30119-001-(14831)-19/09/2018. The registration of to any other individual or entity. Broker-dealers, advisers, and other Vanguard Mexico before the Comisión Nacional Bancaria y de Valores (“CNBV”) intermediaries must determine whether their clients are eligible for investment as an Asesor en Inversiones Independiente is not a certification of Vanguard in the products discussed herein. Mexico’s compliance with regulation applicable to Advisory Investment Services (Servicios de Inversión Asesorados) nor a certification on the accuracy The information contained herein does not constitute an offer or solicitation and of the information provided herein. The supervision scope of the CNBV is may not be treated as such in any jurisdiction where such an offer or limited to Advisory Investment Services only and not to all services provided by solicitation is against the law, or to anyone for whom it is unlawful to make Vanguard Mexico. such an offer or solicitation, or if the person making the offer or solicitation is not qualified to do so. This material is solely for informational purposes and does not constitute an offer or solicitation to sell or a solicitation of an offer to buy any security, nor THESE MATERIALS ARE PROVIDED AT THE REQUEST OF AND FOR THE shall any such securities be offered or sold to any person, in any jurisdiction in EXCLUSIVE USE OF RECIPIENT AND CONTAIN HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL which an offer, solicitation, purchase or sale would be unlawful under the INFORMATION, WHICH SHALL NOT BE REPRODUCED OR TRANSMITTED TO securities law of that jurisdiction. Reliance upon information in this material is ANY THIRD PARTIES WITHOUT VANGUARD’S PRIOR WRITTEN CONSENT. THE at the sole discretion of the reader. CONTENTS OF THESE MATERIALS SHALL NOT BE UNDERSTOOD AS AN OFFER OR SOLICITATION TO BUY OR SELL SECURITIES IN BRAZIL AND VANGUARD IS Securities information provided in this document must be reviewed together NOT MAKING ANY REPRESENTATION WITH RESPECT TO THE ELIGIBILITY OF with the offering information of each of the securities which may be found on ANY RECIPIENT OF THESE MATERIALS TO ACQUIRE THE INTERESTS IN THE Vanguard’s website: https://www.vanguardmexico.com/web/cf/ SECURITIES DESCRIBED HEREIN UNDER THE LAWS OF BRAZIL. SUCH mexicoinstitutional/en/home or www.vanguard.com SECURITIES HAVE NOT BEEN REGISTERED IN BRAZIL AND NONE OF THE INTERESTS IN SUCH SECURITIES MAY BE OFFERED, SOLD, OR DELIVERED, Vanguard Mexico may recommend products of The Vanguard Group Inc. and its DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY, IN BRAZIL OR TO ANY RESIDENT OF BRAZIL affiliates and such affiliates and their clients may maintain positions in the EXCEPT PURSUANT TO THE APPLICABLE LAWS AND REGULATIONS OF securities recommended by Vanguard Mexico. BRAZIL. ETF Shares can be bought and sold only through a broker and cannot be This document does not constitute, and is not intended to constitute, a public redeemed with the issuing fund other than in very large aggregations. Investing offer in the Republic of Colombia, or an unlawful promotion of financial/capital in ETFs entails stockbroker commission and a bid-offer spread which should be market products. The offer of the financial products described herein is considered fully before investing. The market price of ETF Shares may be more addressed to fewer than one hundred specifically identified investors. The or less than net asset value. financial products described herein may not be promoted or marketed in Colombia or to Colombian residents, unless such promotion and marketing is All investments are subject to risk, including the possible loss of the money you made in compliance with Decree 2555/2010 and other applicable rules and invest. Investments in bond funds are subject to interest rate, credit, and regulations related to the promotion of foreign financial/capital market products inflation risk. Governmental backing of securities apply only to the underlying in Colombia. securities and does not prevent share-price fluctuations. High-yield bonds generally have medium- and lower-range credit quality ratings and are The Product is not and will not be registered before the Colombian National therefore subject to a higher level of credit risk than bonds with higher credit Registry of Securities and Issuers (Registro Nacional de Valores y Emisores
Load more

Recommended publications
  • Rupert's Land and North-West Territory Order
    Rupert's Land and North-Western Territory Order (Order of Her Majesty in Council Admitting Rupert's Land and the North-Western Territory into the Union) At the Court at Windsor, the 23rd day of June, 1870 PRESENT, The Queen's Most Excellent Majesty Lord President Lord Privy Seal Lord Chamberlain Mr. Gladstone Whereas by the "Constitution Act, 1867," it was (amongst other things) enacted that it should be lawful for the Queen, by and with the advice or Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, on Address from the Houses of the Parliament of Canada, to admit Rupert's Land and the North- Western Territory, or either of them, into the Union on such terms and conditions in each case as should be in the Addresses expressed, and as the Queen should think fit to approve, subject to the provisions of the said Act. And it was further enacted that the provisions of any Order in Council in that behalf should have effect as if they had been enacted by the Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland: And whereas by an Address from the Houses of the Parliament of Canada, of which Address a copy is contained in the Schedule to this Order annexed, marked A, Her Majesty was prayed, by and with the advice of Her Most Honourable Privy Council, to unite Rupert's Land and the NorthWestern Territory with the Dominion of Canada, and to grant to the Parliament of Canada authority to legislate for their future welfare and good government upon the terms and conditions therein stated.
    [Show full text]
  • The Toronto-Dominion Bank U.S. Resolution Plan Section I: Public Section December 31, 2018
    The Toronto-Dominion Bank U.S. Resolution Plan Section I: Public Section December 31, 2018 THIS PAGE LEFT WAS LEFT BLANK INTENTIONALLY The Toronto-Dominion Bank – U.S. Resolution Plan Public Section Table of Contents Table of Contents I. SUMMARY of RESOLUTION PLAN ______________________________________________ 4 A. Resolution Plan Requirements ______________________________________________________ 4 B. Name and Description of Material Entities ____________________________________________ 6 C. Name and Description of Core Business Lines __________________________________________ 8 D. Summary Financial Information – Assets, Liabilities, Capital and Major Funding Sources _______ 9 E. Description of Derivative and Hedging Activities _______________________________________ 12 F. Memberships in Material Payment, Settlement and Clearing Systems _____________________ 13 G. Description of Foreign Operations __________________________________________________ 14 H. Material Supervisory Authorities ___________________________________________________ 15 I. Principal Officers ________________________________________________________________ 17 J. Resolution Planning Corporate Governance Structure & Process __________________________ 19 K. Description of Material Management Information Systems ______________________________ 20 L. High Level Description of Resolution Strategy _________________________________________ 21 Page | 3 The Toronto-Dominion Bank – U.S. Resolution Plan Public Section I. Summary of Resolution Plan A. Resolution Plan Requirements
    [Show full text]
  • Bermuda Supreme Court
    FEBRUARY 2012 BERMUDA SUPREME COURT In the Matter Of Dominion Petroleum Ltd COMPANIES - SCHEME OF ARRANGEMENT - and In The Matter Of The Companies Act CLASSES - SHAREHOLDERS SCHEME 1981 S99, 2011 Civil Jurisdiction (Com) No. 428 [Original Location: SC Vol. 76 P 177] (3 February 2012) Dominion, a Bermuda exempted company listed on AIM invalidly constituted, it was validly constituted when the Board engaged in oil and gas exploration in East Africa, sought the resolved to promote the scheme. On the issue of classes, the court’s sanction of a scheme of arrangement under Section 99 of Court held that the need for separate classes of shareholders “is the Companies Act, 1981 whereby Dominion would merge Ophir to be determined by dissimilarity of [share] rights not dissimilarity plc, another AIM listed company, also in the business of East of interests”: applying the principles set out by Nazareth J (as he African oil and gas exploration. The scheme was a share then was) in In re Industrial Equity (Pacific) Ltd. [1991] 2 HKLR cancellation scheme where shareholders of Dominion would 614 at 624; Re BTR plc [2000] 1 BCLC 740 at 747-748. The receive 0.0244 Ophir shares for each of their scheme shares. Court confirmed the well-known elements necessary for the sanction of a scheme. The Shareholder had claimed that the Directions were obtained and a shareholders meeting was payment to noteholders under their notes was unfair as, he convened in November 2011. There was one class of argued, the market value of the notes was on his case below shareholders, namely the holders of the common shares in their face value.
    [Show full text]
  • REPORT for the HEARING in Case C-298/89 *
    REPORT FOR THE HEARING — CASE C-298/89 of powers, are of the same general nature as the fact that Gibraltar airport is not the only those provisions. The suspension by the said airport to have been temporarily excluded article of the application of the directive, from the scheme of the directive, the said which is itself of general application, affects suspension merely reflects the consequences equally all air carriers wishing to operate a of the existence of an objective obstacle, aris­ direct inter-regional air service between ing from differences between two Member another Community airport and Gibraltar States, to the immediate application of the airport and, more generally, all those using directive to Gibraltar airport. the latter airport. Furthermore, apart from REPORT FOR THE HEARING in Case C-298/89 * I — Legal background and facts tariffs charged. It provides that airports in the Greek islands are to be temporarily exempted from the application of that direc­ tive. By Council Directive 83/416/EEC of 25 July 1983 (OJ 1983 L 237, p. 19), as amended by Directives 86/216/EEC of 26 May 1986 (OJ 1986 L152, p. 47) and 89/463/EEC of 18 July 1989 (OJ 1989 L 226, p. 14), and by Council Decision 87/602/EEC of 14 Decem­ Decision 87/602 of 14 December 1987 con­ ber 1987 (OJ 1987 L 374, p. 19), the Council cerns the sharing of passenger capacity established a Community programme for between air carriers on scheduled air services authorization by the Member States of between Member States and access for air scheduled inter-regional air services between carriers to scheduled air service routes Member States.
    [Show full text]
  • 252 the NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. [No. 12 Island Council of Niue Appointed
    252 THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. [No. 12 Island Council of Niue appointed. MICHAEL MYERS, Administrator of the Government. URSUANT to the authority vested in me by section sixty-five of the P Cook Islands Act, 1915, and by a:ri. Order in Council of the twenty­ first day of March, one thousand nine hundred and sixteen, providing for the constitution of Island Councils in the Cook Islands, I, Sir Michael Myers, the Administrator of the Government of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby revoke the appointment of the present members of the Island Council of Niue, and in lieu thereof do hereby nominate and appoint the following persons as members of the said Island Council of Niue, to hold office during my pleasure, that is to say :- Alofi South Veli Hagatuki. I Lakepa Taulagaono. Alofi North Patali. Liku Paihele Hagakau. Makefu Tamapeau. Hakupu Galiki. Tuapa Talima. Fatiau Kalotuki. Namukulu Taleleti Navahetau. Avatele Kalauta. Hikutavake Tafua. Tamakautoga Tionetini. Mutalau Togalima. And I do hereby declare that such revocation and appointment shall take effect on the 13th day of January, 1941. As witness the hand of His Excellency the Administrator of the Government of the Dominion of New Zealand, this 6th day of February, 1941. FRANK LANGSTONE, Minister of External Affairs. -----------------· ---··--·- --··----------- Notices under the Regulations Act, 1936. OTICE is hereby given in pursuance of the Regulations Act, 1936, of the making of regulations and orders N as under:- Authority for Enactment. Short Title or Subject-matter. Se.rial Date of Price (Postage. Number. Enactment. I ld. extra). The Emergency Regulations Act, The Stamp Duties Emergency Regulations 1941/12 12/2/41 Id.
    [Show full text]
  • National Identity Formation in Britain's Dominions and India William S
    Southern Illinois University Carbondale OpenSIUC Research Papers Graduate School Spring 5-2011 Independent Personality: National Identity Formation in Britain's Dominions and India William S. Miller [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: http://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/gs_rp Recommended Citation Miller, William S., "Independent Personality: National Identity Formation in Britain's Dominions and India" (2011). Research Papers. Paper 93. http://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/gs_rp/93 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Graduate School at OpenSIUC. It has been accepted for inclusion in Research Papers by an authorized administrator of OpenSIUC. For more information, please contact [email protected]. INDEPENDENT PERSONALITY: NATIONAL IDENTITY FORMATION IN BRITAIN’S DOMINIONS AND INDIA by William S. Miller B.A., Illinois Wesleyan University, 2009 A Research Paper Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Master of Arts. Department of History in the Graduate School Southern Illinois University Carbondale May 2011 RESEARCH PAPER APPROVAL “INDEPENDENT PERSONALITY: NATIONAL IDENTITY FORMATION IN BRITAIN’S DOMINIONS AND INDIA” By William S. Miller A Research Paper Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts in the field of History Approved by: Dr. Ras Michael Brown Graduate School Southern Illinois University Carbondale April 15, 2011 TABLE OF CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE SECTIONS Introduction ........................................................................................................
    [Show full text]
  • Exploring 'The Rock': Material Culture from Niue Island in Te Papa's Pacific Cultures Collection; from Tuhinga 22, 2011
    Tuhinga 22: 101–124 Copyright © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (2011) Exploring ‘the Rock’: Material culture from Niue Island in Te Papa’s Pacific Cultures collection Safua Akeli* and Shane Pasene** * Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, PO Box 467, Wellington, New Zealand ([email protected]) ** Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, PO Box 467, Wellington, New Zealand ([email protected]) ABSTRACT: The Pacific Cultures collection of the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (Te Papa) holds around 300 objects from the island of Niue, including textiles, costumes and accessories, weapons, canoes and items of fishing equipment. The history of the collection is described, including the increasing involvement of the Niue community since the 1980s, key items are highlighted, and collecting possibilities for the future are considered. KEYWORDS: Niue, material culture, collection history, collection development, community involvement, Te Papa. Introduction (2010). Here, we take the opportunity to document and publish some of the rich and untold stories resulting from the The Pacific Cultures collection of the Museum of New Niue collection survey, offering a new resource for researchers Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (Te Papa) comprises objects and the wider Pacific community. from island groups extending from Hawai‘i in the north to The Niue collection comprises 291 objects. The survey Aotearoa/New Zealand in the south, and from Rapanui in has revealed an interesting history of collecting and provided the east to Papua New Guinea in the west. The geographic insight into the range of objects that make up Niue’s material coverage is immense and, since the opening of the Colonial culture.
    [Show full text]
  • Dominion® 120 T Redegar Sr
    ~~ Dominion Resources Services, Inc. , Law Department Dominion® 120 T redegar Sr. Richmond, VA 23219 dom.com Horace P. Payne, Jr. Senior Counsel Direct (804) 819-2682 Fax: (804) 819-2183 l-l [email protected] VIA ELECTRONIC FILING January 14, 2016 Ms. Gail Mount, Chief Clerk North Carolina Utilities Commission 430 North Salisbury Street Dobbs Building Raleigh, North Carolina 27611 Re: Docket No. E-100, Sub 141 Dear Ms. Mount: Enclosed is an Affidavit of Publication which will serve as proof of publication of the Public Notice as required in ordering paragraph 2 of the Commission' s November 23 , 2015, Order Scheduling Public Hearing on 2015 IRP Update Reports and Related 2015 REPS Compliance Plans in the above-referenced case. Pursuant to the instructions in ordering paragraph 2, the notices were published in newspapers having general circulation in Dominion North Carolina Power's service area once a week for two consecutive weeks beginning with the week of December 7, 2015. Copies oftear sheets from each of the newspapers in which the public notice ran are also enclosed. If you have any questions regarding this matter, please do not hesitate to contact me. Senior Counsel Enclosures cc: Antoinette Wike, Esq. (w/o enc.) Virginia 11529 Nuckols Road Glen Allen, VA 23059 (804) 521-7570 Serving Virginia newspapers since 1881 Fax (804) 521-7590 ~PRESS http://www.vpa.net Services AFFIDAVIT OF PUBLICATION (Order #15123DDO) COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA CITY/COUNTY OF Henrico, to-wit: I, Janet Madison, Tearsheet Coordinator, hereby certify that a legal notice for Dominion Resources (Docket No.
    [Show full text]
  • Estimating the Reproductive Numbers for the 2008-2009 Cholera Outbreaks in Zimbabwe Zindoga Mukandavire
    View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk brought to you by CORE provided by Old Dominion University Old Dominion University ODU Digital Commons Biological Sciences Faculty Publications Biological Sciences 2011 Estimating the Reproductive Numbers for the 2008-2009 Cholera Outbreaks in Zimbabwe Zindoga Mukandavire Shu Liao Jin Wang Old Dominion University Holly Gaff Old Dominion University, [email protected] David L. Smith See next page for additional authors Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/biology_fac_pubs Part of the Bacterial Infections and Mycoses Commons, Immunology and Infectious Disease Commons, Public Health Commons, and the Statistics and Probability Commons Repository Citation Mukandavire, Zindoga; Liao, Shu; Wang, Jin; Gaff, Holly; Smith, David L.; and Morris, J. Glenn Jr., "Estimating the Reproductive Numbers for the 2008-2009 Cholera Outbreaks in Zimbabwe" (2011). Biological Sciences Faculty Publications. 273. https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/biology_fac_pubs/273 Original Publication Citation Mukandavire, Z., Liao, S., Wang, J., Gaff, H., Smith, D. L., & Morris, J. G. (2011). Estimating the reproductive numbers for the 2008-2009 cholera outbreaks in Zimbabwe. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 108(21), 8767-8772. doi:10.1073/pnas.1019712108 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Biological Sciences at ODU Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Biological Sciences Faculty Publications by an authorized administrator of ODU Digital Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Authors Zindoga Mukandavire, Shu Liao, Jin Wang, Holly Gaff, David L. Smith, and J. Glenn Morris Jr.
    [Show full text]
  • Statute of Westminster, 1931. [22 GEO
    Statute of Westminster, 1931. [22 GEO. 5. CH. 4.] ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS. A.D. 1931. Section. 1. Meaning of " Dominion" in this Act. Validity of laws made by Parliament of a Dominion. Power of Parliament of Dominion to legislate extra- territorially. 4. Parliament of United Kingdom not to legislate for Dominion except by consent. 5. Powers of Dominion Parliaments in relation to merchant shipping. 6. Powers of Dominion Parliaments in relation to Courts of Admiralty. 7. Saving for British North America Acts and application of the Act to Canada. 8. Saving for Constitution Acts of Australia and New Zealand. 9. Saving with respect to States of Australia. 10. Certain sections of Act not to apply to Australia, New Zealand or Newfoundland unless adopted. 11. Meaning of " Colony " in future Acts. 12. Short title. i [22 GEO. 5.] Statute of Westminster, 1931. [CH. 4.] CHAPTER 4. An Act to give effect to certain resolutions passed A.D. 1931. by Imperial Conferences held in the years 1926 and 1930. [11th December 1931.] HEREAS the delegates of His Majesty's Govern- W ments in the United Kingdom, the Dominion of Canada, the Commonwealth of Australia, the Dominion of New Zealand, the Union of South Africa, the Irish Free State and Newfoundland, at Imperial Conferences holden at Westminster in the years of our Lord nineteen hundred and twenty-six and nineteen hundred and thirty did concur in making the declarations and resolutions set forth in the Reports of the said Conferences : And whereas it is meet and proper to set out by way of preamble to this
    [Show full text]
  • Dominion Status*
    DOMINION STATUS* ]. H. MORGAN N November 18th, 1926, a Report by a Committee of the O Imperial Conference on 4'Inter-Imperial relations"-! would ask you to note the title, for it is important in the light of subse­ quent controversy-was signed by Lord Balfour, and was subse­ quently adopted by the Imperial Conference. It contained, among many other things, the following sentence which Lord Balfour thought so important, as indeed it was, that he emphasized it with italics: The group of self-governing communities composed of Great Britain and the Dominions, their position and mutual relation, may be readily defined. They are autonomous communities within the British Empire, equal in status, in no way subordinate one to another in any respect of their domestic or external affairs, though united by a common allegiance to the Crown, and freely associated as members of the British commonwealth of nations. These words were big with destiny. They have been the subject of speculation,· interpretation, dispute, not only within the British Empire but outside it. They have excited the most lively curiosity among foreign jurists, not excluding American jurists. One of these, Professor Loewenstein of Munich, has lately sent me a commentary of his own upon them, in which he describes the Report embodying them as the "Magna Carta of the British Com­ monwealth"-Die Magna Carta des Britischen Weltreiches. The synonym is not inapt in one respect; namely in this, that it was well and truly said by Maitland of the most sacramental words in Magna Carta that it was possible for subsequent generations to worship them because it was possible to misunderstand them.
    [Show full text]
  • Registration and Records Act
    MONTSERRAT CHAPTER 6.12 REGISTRATION AND RECORDS ACT Revised Edition showing the law as at 1 January 2013 This is a revised edition of the law, prepared by the Law Revision Commissioner under the authority of the Revised Edition of the Laws Act. This edition contains a consolidation of the following laws— Page REGISTRATION AND RECORDS ACT 3 Act 5 of 1881 .. in force 23 November 1881 Amended by Acts: 9 of 1922 9 of 1932 9 of 1933 13 of 1941 2 of 1943 Amended by S.R.O. 15/1956 Amended by Acts: 23 of 1961 8 of 1966 6 of 1969 7 of 1971 10 of 1975 4 of 1978 Amended by Montserrat Stat. Instrument 2/1991 Amended by Acts: 8 of 1991 5 of 1992 9 of 2011 .. in force 27 September 2011 (S.R.O. 40/2011) Copying/unauthorised distribution strictly prohibited. Printed under Authority by The Regional Law Revision Centre Inc. www.lawrevision.ai Copying/unauthorised distribution strictly prohibited. Printed under Authority by The Regional Law Revision Centre Inc. www.lawrevision.ai MONTSERRAT CHAPTER 6.12 REGISTRATION AND RECORDS ACT Revised Edition showing the law as at 1 January 2013 This is a revised edition of the law, prepared by the Law Revision Commissioner under the authority of the Revised Edition of the Laws Act. This edition contains a consolidation of the following laws— Page REGISTRATION AND RECORDS ACT 3 Act 5 of 1881 .. in force 23 November 1881 Amended by Acts: 9 of 1922 9 of 1932 9 of 1933 13 of 1941 2 of 1943 Amended by S.R.O.
    [Show full text]