ALBERTA.--The Supreme Court Act (February 11, 1907) established the Supreme Court of the Province and provided that the court "shall have jurisdiction to grant alimony to any wife who would be entitled to alimony by the law of England, or to any wife who would be entitled by the law of England to a divorce and to alimony as incident thereto, or to any wife whose husband was separate from her without any sufficient cause and under circumstances which would entitle her by the laws of England to a decree for restitution of conjugal rights; and alimony, when granted, continue until further order of the court." NORTHWEST TERRITORIES.--The term "Northwest Territories" originally referred to the region over which the Northwest Company exercised authority, the territorial limits of which were not clearly defined. The term is now used to designate the Canadian territories and districts of Yukon, Keewatin, Mackenzie, Ungava and Franklin. As we have before observed, the law of marriage and divorce in the Northwest Territories is substantially the same as that of England. NEWFOUNDLAND.--This, the oldest British colony in North America, is the most modern in its law of domestic relations. Marriage is considered a civil contract, which may be solemnized before a qualified clergyman of any sect, or a judge, justice of the peace or other magistrate. A married woman has the same right of buying, selling, owning and controlling any kind of real or personal property as a single woman. She has also the fullest right to make any lawful contract without adding her husband as a party. She may sue and be sued as if she were a single woman or a man. There being no divorce courts, the Provincial legislature having no power to grant divorces, and the Colony of Newfoundland being outside of the jurisdiction of the Dominion Parliament of Canada, an absolute divorce cannot be obtained in the colony. CHAPTER XXVII. THE REPUBLIC OF MEXICO. Mexico is a federative Republic composed of twenty-seven States, three Territories and a Federal District. Under the present Constitution, which is dated February 5, 1857, each State has the power to control its own local domestic concerns and to have its own separate executive, legislature and judiciary. The Civil Code of the Federal District (_El Codigo Civil de Distrito Federal_) was enacted simply for the Federal District and the Territories of Lower California, Tepic and Quintana Roo, but each of the twenty-seven States have in their respective Civil Codes adopted the provisions of the Federal Civil Code, especially with reference to the law of marriage and divorce. Therefore, we find it unnecessary to deal with each State separately.