Appeals to the Privy Council from the
Caribbean and Canadian Colonies
Report No. BAR_1714_03

Ballard v Burke

Barbados 

 

Case Name Long

Benjamin Ballard v Hester Burke

 
 

Acts of the Privy Council, Colonial Series

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APC Citation  

v.2 [1202] p.679–680 (24 May 1714 – 11 Jan. 1715)

 
  PC Register Citation

Anne v.6 (18 Aug. 1712 – 31 July 1714) p.362: PC 2/84/362

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  PC Register Citation

George I v.1 (1 Aug. 1714 – 2 March 1717) p.144, 173: PC 2/85/144, 173

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Colonial Courts

 
 

Governor and Council – 11 Aug. 1713

 

Participants

Ballard, Benjamin, appellant

 

Burke, Edward, deceased (husband of Hester)

 

Burke, Hester, respondent (widow of Edward)

 

Description

Concerning a debt.

Disposition

Appeal dismissed.

Notes

Related to another Privy Council appeal:

Rawlins v Burke – Report No. BAR_1712_04 (APC, v.2 [1179] p.668–669).

Note additional information on Burke’s background and life in Barbados in Susan Dwyer Amussen, Caribbean Exchanges: Slavery and the Transformation of English Society, 1640–1700 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007) p.103.


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