Appeals to the Privy Council from the
Caribbean and Canadian Colonies
Report No. ANT_1725_01

Hamilton v Horne

Antigua 

 

Case Name Long

Rowland Hamilton v William Horne and Sarah Horne (later her administrator, Walter Nugent), et al.

 
 

Acts of the Privy Council, Colonial Series

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APC Citation  

v.3 [77] p.111 (5 Feb. 1725 – 15 Feb. 1728)

 
  PC Register Citation

George I v.5 (Sept. 1724 – May 1727) p.32, 289, 304, 316: PC 2/89/32, 289, 304, 316

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  PC Register Citation

George II v.1 (14 June 1727 – 22 May 1729) p.166, 192, 213–215, 227: PC 2/90/166, 192, 213–215, 227

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Colonial Courts

 
 

Chancery – 8 Dec. 1723 and 29 Feb. 1724

 

Participants

Hamilton, Rowland, gentleman, appellant

 

Horne, Sarah, respondent, later deceased

 

Horne, William, respondent

 

Kennedy, William, later deceased

 

Nugent, Walter, respondent (administrator of Sarah Horne)

 

Description

Land (rent).

Disposition

Decree reversed insofar as it regards appellant.

Notes

In one entry, the PC register calls the colony ‘Leeward Islands’, the British name in this period for a group of islands that included Antigua.

 

References in Smith, Appeals to the Privy Council from the American Plantations

Table of Cases (Hamilton v Horne)


DOCUMENTATION

Printed Cases

Not found

 

Privy Council Documents in PC 1 at The National Archives at Kew

 
TNA Document Petition and Order of reference – 5 Feb. 1725 (PC 1/48/21) view_Document
Notes about
Document
Referenced in APC v.6 [329] p.141.

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TNA Document Committee report – 20 Jan. 1727 (PC 1/48/23) view_Document
Notes about
Document
Referenced in APC v.6 [362] p.171.

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TNA Document Hamilton’s petition and Order of reference – 2 Nov. 1727 (PC 1/48/23) view_Document
Notes about
Document
Referenced in APC v.6 [362] p.171. AALT lists this under 22 Jan., which is written on the dorse of the document. The contents, however, are dated 2 Nov.

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TNA Document Petition of Horne and Nugent – 14 Dec. 1727 (PC 1/48/23) view_Document
Notes about
Document
Referenced in APC v.6 [362] p.171.

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