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Guiana and how they can be promoted. A liberal 
assistance in her wants and financial distress, coupled 
with economy in her house-holding, will prove a profit- 
able outlay. 
2. Judicial. — The United Provinces of the Nether- 
lands had no codification. The general or common 
law of the land consisted of local statutes and ordi- 
nances, and privileges having force of law. The Roman 
law was the law of the land. 
This was afterwards expressly enacted by the States 
of Holland by their resolution of the 25th of May 1755, 
whereby it was stated that, "the Courts of Justice in 
" Holland, like all other Tribunals in the provinces of 
"Holland and (West) Vriesland must do justice accord - 
" ing to the law and ordinances of the land, and also 
"according to the privileges and old established customs 
"and usages, and, in failure of these, according to the 
" Roman law." 
The law of the land was however, long before this, 
worked out by cases and decisions of the various courts 
and tribunals in the united provinces. The authority of 
these decisions and the books of eminent Dutch Jurists, 
and their consultations, constituted, in connection with 
the general law of the land and the subsidiary Civil or 
Roman Law, the legislation, the system of law obtaining 
in the Netherlands, more universally known as the Ro- 
man-Dutch Law, until the beginning of this century. 
The Criminal law of Holland was contained in the 
Constitutio Carolina (CHARLES the V.) and the ordinance 
on the style of Philip the II. 
The procedure in civil cases was regulated by inslruc- 
