Appeals to the Privy Council
Report No. 08_1735_00

Mossesson v Norris

New York 

 

Case Name Short

Mossesson v Norris

Not a ‘true’ appeal.  
Case Name Long

Solomon Medina Mossesson, Moses Medina and Abraham Medina, and Roderigo Pacheto v Mathew Norris

 
 

Acts of the Privy Council, Colonial Series

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APC Citation 

v.3 [341] p.459 – 3 April 1735 – entry 1

 
PC Register Citation 

George II v.4 (1 August 1734 – 23 September 1736) p.150: PC 2/93/150

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Colonial Courts

Vice Admiralty Court – 4 September 1727

Participants

Medina, Abraham

Medina, Moses

Mossesson, Solomon Medina

Norris, Mathew, esquire

Pacheto, Roderigo

Description

Condemnation of snuff and tobacco as lawful prize

Disposition

Not stated in Acts of the Privy Council, Colonial Series

Notes

The petition of Mathew Norris requests that the appeal of Solomon Medina Mossesson, Moses Medina and Abraham Medina, and Roderigo Pacheto be dismissed for non-prosecution. Smith (p.188, referencing Norris v Four Casks, etc. of Snuff) states that this appeal was in fact to the Lords Commissioners for Hearing Prize Appeals though the wording in the APC and the entry in Hough, New York Vice-Admiralty 1715–1788, p.8–10, might imply otherwise.

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

Table of Cases (Norris v Four Casks, etc., of Snuff)

Additional Sources

A copy of the printed case is found in the Lee collection of Prize cases at the New York Public Library (*KC +++ p.v.20–21). A copy in manuscript can be found at TNA (PC 1/58/B–B3).


DOCUMENTATION

Printed Cases

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

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