In the charter issued by virtue of the Parliamentary enactment (March, 
1774) it was provided that appeals might be had in all judgments, decrees, or 
decretal orders in any civil cause by petition to the Supreme Court of Judicature. 
Upon appeal in cases where appellant was directed to pay a sum of money 
or perform a duty, execution was to issue or security to be given for performance 
of the judgment appealed from as the court found most expedient. In the 
former case security was to be given by respondent for the due performance 
of the Council's order; in all cases security for costs and for performance of 
the conciliar order was to be given by appellant. After these conditions had 
been performed to the satisfaction of the Supreme Court, the appeal was to 
be prosecuted "in such manner and form, and under such rules, as are observed 
in appeals made to us, from our plantations or colonies, or from our 
islands of Guernsey, Jersey, Sarke, and Alderney." However, the petition of 
appeal had to be presented within six months of judgment and the value of 
the matter in dispute was to exceed one thousand pagodas. On every appeal 
the court was to transmit to the Privy Council "a true and exact copy of all 
the evidence, proceedings, judgments, decrees and orders, had or made in such 
causes appealed." In criminal causes the court was given full authority to 
allow appeals in such cases and under such terms as it thought fit. Finally, the 
King reserved power to deny or grant appeals in such cases and under such 
regulations as was thought fit. 219 A 1781 act of Parliament made further provisions 
for appeals from the Governor General and Council in civil causes 
of the value of ,£5,000 and upwards. 220 
ISLE OF MAN APPEALS 
In pursuing discussion of conciliar jurisdiction in relation to charter provisions, 
we have made no mention of the jurisdiction assumed over the Isle of Man, 
Minorca, and Gibraltar during the eighteenth century. Of these, the only 
jurisdiction contested was that over the Isle of Man, an ancient dominion of 
the crown outside the realm. 221 In February, 1714/5, a petition was presented 
to the King in Council by one William Christian of the Isle of Man complaining 
of unjust deprivation of an estate in the island by a decree of the proprietor, 
the Earl of Derby, notwithstanding four score years possession and six favorable 
decrees of the local Chancery Court. Petitioner prayed admission to an 
appeal, free liberty of recourse to the records of the island, and summonses for 
219 Letters Patent, Establishing a Supreme 
Court of Judicature, at Fort-William, in Bengal 
(1774), 32-35. 
220 21 Geo. 111, c. 70, s. 21. For the events 
leading to this act see Auber, An Analysis of 
the Constitution of the East India Company 
(1826), 234-36. 
221 For the history and status of the island 
see Coke, Fourth Institute, 283; Hale, History 
of the Common Law (1779 ed.), 190; Safford 
and Wheeler, Practice of the Privy Council in 
Judicial Matters, 256; Attorney-General for 
the Isle of Man v. Mylchreest (4 A.C. [1879], 
294, 301).