Section No : Legislative Enactments INTRODUCTION OF LAW OF ENGLANDMarginal Notes1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Civil Law Ordinance.2. Law of England to be observed in maritime matters.3. Law of England to be observed in all commercial matters.[ 357, 51 of 1938] 4. What law to govern questions relating to the effect of war.5. Legal rate of interest. [ 2,36 of 1981]6. Contracts made abroad how determined.7. If the Kandyan law is silent, the law of the Maritime provinces to govern.8. Marriages of Europeans not valid in the Maritime provinces to be invalid in the Kandyan provinces.9. The succession and intestate to the property of Europeans in the Kandyan provinces to be the same as in the Maritime provinces.