1 I certainly include those fields, but I also treat ordinances and statutes passed by pre- and post-Responsible Government councils and legislatures, as well as the common-law judgments of all of the high courts of the lands of the British Diaspora in North America and the Antipodes as part of my ‘high’ legal culture, something she seems to have missed.

2 Swinfen, David, Imperial Control ofColonial Legislation, 1813-1865: British Policy Towards Colonial Legislative Powers (Oxford, 1970), 151–155, noted on page 518 of my book.Google Scholar

3 I concede that ‘generally’ may have been the wrong adverb there (even though I immediately qualified it by naming eight such colonies where landlords sought tenants rather than purchasers).