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| Appeals to the Privy Council from the Caribbean and Canadian Colonies |
| Report No. JAM_1776_00 |
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Jamaica |
| Case Name Long |
Tristram and Dorothy Ratcliffe, and Mary Read, by her guardian v Richard Huggins Read |
Acts of the Privy Council, Colonial Series |
| APC Citation | v.5 [343] p.448–449 (25 Oct. 1776 – 30 April 1777) |
| PC Register Citation | George III v.13 (June 1776 – May 1777) p.168, 423–424, 477: PC 2/120/168–169, 423–424, 477 |
Colonial Courts |
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Supreme Court – Feb. 1775 |
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Court of Appeals – 21 Feb. 1775 |
Participants |
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Ratcliffe, Dorothy, appellant (wife of Tristram) |
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Ratcliffe, Tristram, appellant (husband of Dorothy, guardian of Mary Read) |
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Read, Ennis, deceased (father of ?Mary and Richard Huggins Read) |
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Read, Mary, infant, appellant (?daughter of Ennis) |
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Read, Richard Huggins, respondent (son of Ennis) |
Description |
Concerning an estate. |
Disposition |
Appeal dismissed without costs by consent of all parties. |
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DOCUMENTATION |
Printed Cases |
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Privy Council Documents in PC 1 at The National Archives at Kew |
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Other Documents |
| Other Documents | The action below is reported in Notes of Cases Adjudged in Jamaica, May 1774 to Dec. 1787 (Edinburgh: Adam Neill and Company, [1794]) (reported by John Grant, esq., late chief-justice of the Grand Court of Jamaica), p.8–9 (Feb. Grand Court 1775, summary of the case and report of the verdict and its reversal in error, which was affirmed on appeal to the King in council). | ||
| Library | Ames Foundation: (2 pages) (Source: Harvard Law School Library through the Harvard Library Viewer.) |