Appeals to the Privy Council from the
Caribbean and Canadian Colonies
Report No. BAR_1703_00

Knights v Hallett

Barbados 

 

Case Name Long

Richard Knights v John Hallett

 
 

Acts of the Privy Council, Colonial Series

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APC Citation  

v.2 [900] p.438–439 (24 April 1703 – 17 May 1703)

 
  PC Register Citation

Anne v.1 (8 March 1702 – 18 Jan. 1704) p.368, 386, 392–393: PC 2/79/368, 386, 392–393

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Colonial Courts

 
 

Court of Chancery – 18 June 1684 (two decrees) and 6 Aug. 1685

 

Participants

Boiss, Thomas du (attorney for Francis Bond)

 

Bond, Francis, esquire (attorney for Christopher Fowler, John Hallett, and Richard Hallett)

 

Chester, William (1), senr., deceased (father of William [2], executor of John Woodward)

 

Chester, William (2), junr., deceased (son and heir and executor of William [1])

 

Edgington, John (husband of Sarah, executor of William Chester [2])

 

Edgington, Sarah (wife of John, executrix of William Chester [2])

 

Fowler, Christopher (executor of Benjamin Knights in trust for Richard Knights)

 

Hallett, Col. John, respondent (executor of Benjamin Knights in trust for Richard Knights)

 

Hallett, Richard (executor of Benjamin Knights in trust for Richard Knights)

 

Knights, Benjamin, deceased

 

Knights, Richard, appellant

 

Woodward, Enoch

 

Woodward, John, merchant, later deceased

 

Description

Concerning land.

Disposition

June 1684 decrees reversed; Aug. 1685 decree confirmed.

Notes

Related to another Privy Council appeal:

Knights v Hallett – Report No. BAR_1688_01 (APC, v.2 [260] p.109–110).


DOCUMENTATION

Printed Cases

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

 

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