Appeals to the Privy Council from the
Caribbean and Canadian Colonies
Report No. JAM_1776_00

Ratcliffe v Read

Jamaica 

 

Case Name Long

Tristram and Dorothy Ratcliffe, and Mary Read, by her guardian v Richard Huggins Read

 
 

Acts of the Privy Council, Colonial Series

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APC Citation  

v.5 [343] p.448–449 (25 Oct. 1776 – 30 April 1777)

 
  PC Register Citation

George III v.13 (June 1776 – May 1777) p.168, 423–424, 477: PC 2/120/168–169, 423–424, 477

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Colonial Courts

 
 

Supreme Court – Feb. 1775

 
 

Court of Appeals – 21 Feb. 1775

 

Participants

Ratcliffe, Dorothy, appellant (wife of Tristram)

 

Ratcliffe, Tristram, appellant (husband of Dorothy, guardian of Mary Read)

 

Read, Ennis, deceased (father of ?Mary and Richard Huggins Read)

 

Read, Mary, infant, appellant (?daughter of Ennis)

 

Read, Richard Huggins, respondent (son of Ennis)

 

Description

Concerning an estate.

Disposition

Appeal dismissed without costs by consent of all parties.


DOCUMENTATION

Printed Cases

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

 

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Other Documents

Other DocumentsThe action below is reported in Notes of Cases Adjudged in Jamaica, May 1774 to Dec. 1787 (Edinburgh: Adam Neill and Company, [1794]) (reported by John Grant, esq., late chief-justice of the Grand Court of Jamaica), p.8–9 (Feb. Grand Court 1775, summary of the case and report of the verdict and its reversal in error, which was affirmed on appeal to the King in council). 
Library Ames Foundation: (2 pages) (Source: Harvard Law School Library through the Harvard Library Viewer.)

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