Appeals to the Privy Council from the
Caribbean and Canadian Colonies
Report No. JAM_1751_01

Barclay v Morley

Jamaica 

 

Case Name Long

James Barclay v Humphrey Morley

 
 

Acts of the Privy Council, Colonial Series

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APC Citation  

v.4 [143] p.111 (30 April 1751 – 14 April 1752)

 
  PC Register Citation

George II v.13 (1 May 1750 – 30 March 1752) p.219, 504–505: PC 2/102/219, 504–505

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  PC Register Citation

George II v.14 (1 April 1752 – 31 Dec. 1753) p.12–16, 31: PC 2/103/12–16, 31

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Colonial Courts

 
 

Supreme Court of Judicature – Nov. 1748

 
 

Court of Errors – 28 May 1750

 

Participants

Barclay, James, esquire, appellant (administrator of Samuel Walter)

 

Clarke, John (mortgagor of Samuel Walter)

 

Morley, Humphrey, deputy marshal of Jamaica, respondent

 

Townsend, William

 

Walter, Samuel, fishmonger, of London, deceased (mortgagee of John Clarke)

 

Description

Recovery of possession of Negro slaves.

Disposition

Both judgments reversed.


DOCUMENTATION

Printed Cases

Appellant’s case

Case of the appellant (James Barclay v Humphrey Morley)

Counsel

A. Hume-Campbell

 
Library

Law Library of Congress: (Sir George Lee Collection) (Printed date on dorse 1752; 17 March added by hand; no manuscript notes.)

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

 

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