The American colonists brought English common law across the Atlantic, and colonial officials had as little toleration for the press as did their masters back home.

美洲殖民者将英国普通法带到了大西洋彼岸，殖民地的官员如同故乡的主人一样容不得新闻出版自由。

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A colonial, who had a case for damages impending at the law courts.

一个即将在法院吃官司被要求进行损失赔偿的殖民地居民。

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Molly had broken colonial law by marrying a black man.

VOA: special.2010.11.20

This is a long-standing law inherited from the British colonial government.

ECONOMIST: Informed comment

After the first post-dictatorship democratic elections in 1999, 12 of the northern Muslim states adopted sharia law, putting an enormous strain on the unity of a Nigerian state that had previously been run only under the secular, civil law bequeathed to it by British colonial rulers.

ECONOMIST: Nigeria