Appeals to the Privy Council
Report No. 01_1699_02

Hallam v Winthrop

Connecticut 

 

Case Name Short

Hallam v Winthrop

 
Case Name Long

John Hallam and Nicholas Hallam v John Fitz Winthrop and Edward Palmes

 
 

Acts of the Privy Council, Colonial Series

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APC Citation 

v.2 [734] p.328 – 9 February 1699 – entry 1

 
CSP Citation 

XII no.120

 
PC Register Citation 

William III v.5 (5 May 1697 – 30 March 1700) p.302: PC 2/77/302

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APC Citation 

v.2 [734] p.329 – 5 December 1700 – entry 2

 
CSP Citation 

XIII no. 974

 
PC Register Citation 

William III v.6 (4 April 1700 – 19 February 1702) p.109: PC 2/78/109

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APC Citation 

v.2 [734] p.329 – 12 June 1701 – entry 3

 
PC Register Citation 

William III v.6 (4 April 1700 – 19 February 1702) p.218: PC 2/78/218

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APC Citation 

v.2 [734] p.329 – 12 February 1702 – entry 4

 
PC Register Citation 

William III v.6 (4 April 1700 – 19 February 1702) p.343–344: PC 2/78/343–344

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APC Citation 

v.2 [734] p.329–330 – 18 March 1702– entry 5

 
PC Register Citation 

Anne v.1 (8 March 1702 – 18 January 1704) p.39: PC 2/79/39

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APC Citation 

v.2 [734] p.330 – 2 December 1703 – entry 6

 
PC Register Citation 

Anne v.1 (8 March 1702 – 18 January 1704) p.467: PC 2/79/467

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APC Citation 

v.2 [734] p.330 – 3 January 1704 – entry 7

 
PC Register Citation 

Anne v.1 (8 March 1702 – 18 January 1704) p.489: PC 2/79/489

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APC Citation 

v.2 [734] p.330 – 9 January 1704 – entry 8

 
PC Register Citation 

Anne v.1 (8 March 1702 – 18 January 1704) p.494: PC 2/79/494

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Colonial Courts

General Assembly (address relating to the case)

Court of Assistants – 2 May 1700

Participants

Hallam, John (brother of Nicholas Hallam)

Hallam, Nicholas (brother of John Hallam)

Palmes, Edward

Winthrop, John Fitz (Fitzjohn)

Description

Not stated in Acts of the Privy Council, Colonial Series

Disposition

Confirmed

Notes

Related to other Privy Council appeals:

    Palmes and Hallam v [Winthrop] – Report No. 01_1699_01 (APC, v.2 [733] p.328)

    Palmes v Winthrop – Report No. 01_1703_00 (APC, v.2 [913] p.453)

The appeals of Palmes and Hallam are related, arising predominately from a dispute about the will of John Liveen, stepfather of John and Nicholas Hallam. Palmes and Hallam v [Winthrop] amounts to requests by Palmes and Hallam to require Connecticut to allow an appeal in its courts in a matter regarding the seizure of the ship Liveen, with further right to appeal to the King in Council if desired.

This case concerns the Hallam brothers’ attempt to obtain the estate of John Liveen. Palmes v Winthrop continues Palmes’s controversy regarding the Liveen and adds an appeal from a dispute related to his rights to a part of the estate of the late John Winthrop through Palmes’s late wife Lucy, daughter of John Winthrop.

These appeals are noted particularly for the comment of the crown law officers that appeals lay to the King in Council as a right inherent in the crown.

References in Smith, Appeals to the Privy Council from the American Plantations

Table of Cases (Hallam v Winthrop and Palmes)


DOCUMENTATION

Printed Cases

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Privy Council Documents in PC 1 at The National Archives at Kew

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