Cape Colonial law is the legal system of the Cape Colony, comprising its legal tradition through custom and convention (British common law and Roman-Dutch civil law), its legislation as passed by the Cape Parliament, and court cases decided by the Cape Colonial Court. The Cape has no written constitution, although it did have one between 1853 and 1910, when it was repealed by the British Parliament in the Cape Act. This constitution, albeit void of legal force, still has influence in the nation's legal tradition, and has been absorbed into effective law through court decisions. A prominent part of the Cape legal tradition is known as the "Cape Liberal Tradition", which describes the country's progressive history with regard to race and gender affairs, as compared to its other colonial neig