Nevertheless, uncertainties occasionally did arise as to whether colonial Acts could diverge from the ordinary statute and common law applicable in England, and received in the colonies as the result of settlement or imposed there following conquest. The “Union Act” of 1840 cleared up this question for the Canadas by reaffirming that colonial Acts were void only if repugnant to imperial enactments specifically applying to the colony, or to the Empire generally,34 not merely when they might conflict with some aspect of the internal “law of England.” This rule was made general for all colonial Legislatures by the Colonial Laws Validity *354 Act, 1865.35