| Appeals to the Privy Council |
Report No. 13_1763_01 |
Cleeve v Mills |
Virginia |
| Case Name Short |
Cleeve v Mills |
| Case Name Long |
Richard Cleeve and John Hinde v James Mills, William Bird, John Robinson, Richard Bland, William Jordan, Presly Thornton and James Power |
Acts of the Privy Council, Colonial Series |
| APC Citation | v.4 [502] p.557 – 23 February 1763 – entry 1 |
| PC Register Citation | George III v.2 (1 January 1762 – 30 April 1763) p.506: PC 2/109/506 |
| APC Citation | v.4 [502] p.557 – 3 August 1764 – entry 2 |
| PC Register Citation | George III v.3 (1 May 1763 – 30 September 1764) p.570–574, 598: PC 2/110/570–574, 598 |
Colonial Courts |
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Virginia Chancery – 10 October 1761 |
Participants |
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Beverley, William Bird, William Bland, Richard Cleeve, Richard (assignee of the estate and effects of Pearson Pettit) Dolby, Charles Garland, James Hanbury, Capel Hanbury, John Hinde, John (assignee of the estate and effects of Pearson Pettit) Hitt, Thomas Jordan, William Mills, James Nelson, Thomas Nelson, William Pettit, John Pettit, Pearson, bankrupt merchant, late of London Power, James Robinson, John Rybott, Francis Thornton, Presly |
Description |
Debt that, according to Smith (p.492), raises the question of the extension of the bankruptcy acts to Virginia |
Disposition |
Dismissed |
References in Smith, Appeals to the Privy Council from the American Plantations |
Table of Cases (Cleeve v Mills) |
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DOCUMENTATION |
Printed Cases |
| Appellant’s case |
Case of the appellant (Cleeve) |
ESTC: T128996 |
| Counsel | [Signed] C. Yorke; Al. Forrester |
| Library | British Library: (Hardwicke Papers) Additional Manuscripts 36219 f.85–88 (Includes manuscript notes) (Noted in ESTC? No.) |
| Library | British Library: General Reference Collection – L.3.a.1[vol.13] (134) (Bound with appeals to the House of Lords. The ESTC record states in error that the appeal was to that body.) (Noted in ESTC? Yes.) |
| Respondent’s case |
Case of the respondent (Mills) |
ESTC: T129014 |
| Counsel | [Signed] Flr. Norton; C. Ambler |
| Library | British Library: (Hardwicke Papers) Additional Manuscripts 36219 f.89–93 (Includes manuscript notes) (Noted in ESTC? No.) |
| Library | British Library: General Reference Collection – L.3.a.1[vol.13] (135) (Includes manuscript notes. Bound with appeals to the House of Lords. The ESTC record states in error that the appeal was to that body.) (Noted in ESTC? Yes.) |
Privy Council Documents in PC 1 at The National Archives at Kew |
| TNA Document | Report of the Board of Trade – July 1764 – PC 1/59/5/1 | view_Document |
| Catalogued as | Catalogued by TNA: Report of Board of Trade for dismissing appeal of Cleeve v Mills |
| TNA Document | Draft order dismissing the appeal of Cleeve v Mills and others – July 1764 – PC 1/59/5/1 | view_Document |
| Catalogued as | Catalogued by TNA: Draft order dismissing appeal of Cleeve v Mills and others from Virginia |