Appeals to the Privy Council from the American Colonies : An annotated digital catalogue
Document Type
Website
Abstract
In the century before the creation of the Supreme Court of the United States, the British Privy Council heard appeals from the 13 colonies that became the United States and from the other ‘American’ colonies in Canada and the Caribbean. This catalogue focuses on all currently known colonial cases appealed to the Privy Council from the future United States, a number totaling nearly one-third of the more than 800 heard from the Americas. For the appeals from the 13 colonies, the catalogue provides links to original documents in England and the United States. Most significantly, the site includes images of surviving briefs filed in 54 of these appeals. Known as ‘printed cases’, these briefs provide the ‘reasons’ for the appeals.
Publication Date
2014
Recommended Citation
Bilder, Mary Sarah; O'Connor, Sharon Hamby; Donahue, Charles Jr.; and Ames Foundation, "Appeals to the Privy Council from the American Colonies : An annotated digital catalogue" (2014). AALL Legal Website of the Month. 107.
https://ir.law.utk.edu/aall_websites/107