Author: Joseph Henry SmithPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Appellate courts
Languages : en
Pages : 840
Book Description
Appeals to the Privy Council from the American Plantations
Author: Joseph Henry SmithPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Appellate courts
Languages : en
Pages : 840
Book Description
Appeals to the Privy Council from the American Plantations
Author: Joseph H. SmithPublisher: Buccaneer Books
ISBN: 9780374974862
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 770
Book Description
Appeals to the Privy Council from the American Plantations
Author: Joseph Henry SmithAppeals to the Privy Council from the American Plantations. By Joseph Henry Smith. With an introductory essay by Julius Goebel
Author: Columbia University (NEW YORK). School of Law. Foundation for Research in Legal HistoryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 770
Book Description
Appeals to the Privy Council from the American Plantations. With an Introductory Essay by Julius Goebel
Author: Joseph Henry SmithPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Appellate procedure
Languages : en
Pages : 770
Book Description
Appeals to the Privy Council from the American Colonies
Author: Publisher:
ISBN: 9781941232064
Category : Appellate procedure
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
This annotated digital catalogue offers a systematic presentation of the appeals to the Privy Council from the British Caribbean and Canadian colonies to 1783, with links to related documents. This volume supersedes what is contained in Part 1 about the Canadian and Caribbean appeals. By the dawn of the eighteenth century, the power of the Privy Council as advisor to the sovereign was already waning. Nonetheless, the Council and its associated subsidiaries retained responsibility for the administration of the growing number of English colonies. As part of this oversight of colonial governance, the Council exercised appellate jurisdiction over the decisions of the highest courts in each colony. The purpose of the catalogue is to provide a foundation for further study of these appeals through improved access to the source material. Each report gives: the colony from which the case was appealed; full and short name of the appeal as compiled from the entries in the 'Acts of the Privy Council, Colonial Series' (APC); the names and dates of lower court actions; the names of participants; the subject matter and disposition of the case; and more. Accompanying lists include case names and parties to the cases, vessels, surviving printed cases, and counsel. New lists include references in the cases to enslaved persons and to plantations or land. The printed catalog is accompanied by a website (https://amesfoundation.law.harvard.edu/ColonialAppeals/CaribAppeals/) that provides links to original documents.--Publisher.
The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council 1833-1876
Author: P. A. HowellPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521085595
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
In the nineteenth century, the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council held sway over the lives, liberties and property of more than a quarter of the world's inhabitants.
The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council and the Caribbean Court of Justice
Author: Harold A. YoungPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1498586953
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 161
Book Description
Countries that have a domestic final appellate court have established a judicial institution over which they have control as part of the policymaking governing structure and how they view other existing and emerging extraterritorial courts will be influenced by their perception of the court and the role it will play when the policies of the governing coalition are challenged. This book analyzes that phenomenon in terms of the broader construction and understanding of the state in the era of international law, legal tribunals, and globalization. By zooming in on the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council (JCPC), an ancient colonial court, Harold Young examines how the Caribbean Community, specifically, the 15 former British colonies comprising the Caribbean Basin are navigating their changing political environments and transitioning to its own extraterritorial court, the Caribbean Court of Justice. Using historical reviews, descriptive analyses, and statistical methodologies Young finds that the choice to retain the JCPC at independence is influenced by the colonial experience, the length of colonial rule, and how deeply embedded the JCPC is on the governing structures of the new state.
The Common Law in Colonial America
Author: William E. NelsonPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190850507
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
The eminent legal historian William E. Nelson's magisterial four-volume The Common Law in Colonial America traces how the many legal orders of Britain's thirteen North American colonies gradually evolved into one American system. Initially established on divergent political, economic, and religious grounds, the various colonial systems slowly converged until it became possible by the 1770s to imagine that all thirteen participated in a common American legal order, which diverged in its details but differed far more substantially from English common law. This fourth and final volume begins where volume three ended. It focuses on the laws of the thirteen colonies in the mid-eighteenth century and on constitutional events leading up to the American Revolution. Nelson first examines procedural and substantive law and looks at important shifts in the law to show how the mid-eighteenth- century colonial legal system in large part functioned effectively in the interests both of Great Britain and of its thirteen colonies. Nelson then turns to constitutional events leading to the Revolution. Here he shows how lawyers deployed ideological arguments not for their own sake, but in order to protect colonial institutional structures and the socio-economic interests of their clients. As lawyers deployed the arguments, they developed them into a constitutional theory that gave primacy to common-law constitutional rights and local self-government. In the process, the lawyers became leaders of the revolutionary movement and a dominant political force in the new United States.
The Ideological Origins of American Federalism
Author: Alison L. LaCroixPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674048867
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
In this book, the author traces the history of American federal thought from its colonial beginnings in scattered provincial responses to British assertions of authority, to its emergence in the late eighteenth century as a normative theory of multilayered government. The core of this new federal ideology was a belief that multiple independent levels of government could legitimately exist within a single polity, and that such an arrangement was not a defect but a virtue.