potential appeal, for appeals admitted on dolecmce might later be dismissed as 
frivolous. 89 Deserted doleances were subject to motion to dismiss for nonprosecution 
in the same fashion as appeals. 90 Occasionally upon doleance, 
proceedings below were ordered suspended until further order, although security 
might be demanded for such suspension. 9l A party could not simultaneously 
proceed by appeal and by doleance —an election of remedies was 
necessary. 92 
To Guernsey litigants in particular a third method of conciliar approach was 
available in addition to the appeal and the doleance. This was the "appeal by 
way of doleance" an intermediate and to us indeterminate appellate method. 93 
In some causes appeals by way of doleance were entered at the Council Board 
in the same manner as regular appeals. 94 In other cases it was petitioned that 
the usual summons issue, and upon Committee order the appeal was entered 
and a summons issued. 95 Sometimes it was prayed that in view of the fact that 
the doleance was granted in the usual manner of an appeal, it might be 
taken as such and a summons issue for respondents. But the Committee adhered 
to pure doleance practice. 96 
peal the Royal Court be ordered to answer 
whether an acknowledgment of the debt in 
question was made before them, by whom, 
and in what terms and expressions. But the 
Committee dismissed the petition (PC 2/85/ 
235; PC 2/86/94). 
89 The Committee, in allowing an appeal, advised 
"that in case the same upon a hearing 
shall appear to be frivolous, or not well 
grounded, the complainant be obliged to pay 
such costs as shall be adjudged reasonable." 
In re Fauvell (PC 2/80/378, 395). Compare 
the doleance of Fiott which was dismissed as 
"frivolous and groundless" (PC 2/111/287). 
90 In re De Lisle (PC 2/87/363); In re 
Priaulx (PC 2/80/415, 420). In the case In 
re Thoumes, prosecution of the doleance by 
the last Council day of May, 1702, was ordered 
with the sanction of dismissal. Although appellant 
failed thus to prosecute, the doleance 
was ordered heard on showing cause for the 
delay (PC 2/79/40, 172, 287). 
91 See In re Le Hardy (PC 2/88/269); In re 
Allez (PC 2/95/166); In re Le Cocq (PC 
2/96/48-49) where £1,000 security to abide 
the determination was entered into by 
doleant; In re Poole (PC 2/ 'l2O/'430). 
92 See the proceedings in Lempriere et al. v. 
Rex (PC 2/93/225, 457, 471, 481). 
93 See Mauger v. Le Messurier (PC 2/g"jf 
393); Beauvoir v. Le Marchant (PC 2/86/ 
233); Bernard v. Le Cocq (PC 2/82/243); 
Fiott v. Martin (PC 2/100/43, 56-57); 
Dobree v. Lihou (PC 2/82/243); Broyer v. 
Thomes (PC 2/82/298). In the first cause 
above there is an entry in the Guernsey Royal 
Court records that Mauger and Dobree "ont 
ete deboutes d'appeller a sa Majeste par les 
voyes ordinaires et ont ete admis a se porter 
pour appellant par voye de doleance a sa 
Majeste" (MS ]ugements, ordonnances, et 
ordres du Conseil [Mai 1736 a Octombre 
J 7451> 87-88). For a certificate of appeal by 
way of doleance for use in entry of the appeal 
see PC 1/2 (8). 
94 See Bernard v. Le Cocq (supra, n. 93); 
Dobree v. Lihou (supra, n. 93); Broyer v. 
Thomes (supra, n. 93); Carey v. de Lisle (PC 
2/76/550); Hyde v. Oliver (PC 2/82/241); 
De Garis v. Guille (PC 2/82/242). 
95 Mauger v. Le Messurier (supra, n. 93); 
Poulett v. Richardson (PC 2/77/187); Dobree 
v. Morell (PC 2/77/221, 224); Le Messurier 
v. Lihou (PC 2/77/231, 259-60); Parker v. 
Guille (PC 2/95/497, 635). 
96 Beauvoir v. Le Marchant (PC 2/86/233, 
289; PC 2/87/277, 286). A similar conciliar 
course is found in Dobree v. Falla (PC 2/ 
86/264, 289-90, 460, 464). In the case In re 
Falla (PC 2/85/425, 433, 464) a motion was 
made before the Committee that the petitioner's 
doleance was not a verbal complaint