Appeals to the Privy Council from the
Caribbean and Canadian Colonies
Report No. NOV_1778_00

Lynch v Mowat

Nova Scotia 

 

Case Name Long

Henry Lynch v Henry Mowat

 
 

Acts of the Privy Council, Colonial Series

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APC Citation  

v.5 [360] p.457–458 (15 April 1778 – 18 May 1781)

 
  PC Register Citation

George III v.15 (April 1778 – Sept. 1778) p.31: PC 2/122/31

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  PC Register Citation

George III v.17 (July 1779 – Feb. 1780) p.542–543, 570–571: PC 2/124/542–543, 570–571

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  PC Register Citation

George III v.18 (March 1780 – Dec. 1780) p.54, 460: PC 2/125/54, 460

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  PC Register Citation

George III v.19 (Jan. 1781 – Sept. 1781) p.319–322, 347: PC 2/126/319–322, 347

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Colonial Courts

 
 

[Vice Admiralty Court at] Halifax – 19 Sept. 1777

 

Participants

Bewick, Mr. ___

 

Brenton, James (surrogate of Jonathan Sewal)

 

Lynch, Henry, merchant, of Galway, appellant

 

McLintock, Robert, merchant, of Halifax

 

Mourgue, Mr. ___

 

Mowat, Henry, commander of HMS Albany, respondent

 

Nesbitt, William, attorney general

 

Sewal, Jonathan

 

Withers, Philip, master of the Maria Theresa

 

Wood, Daniel (advocate for Philip Withers)

 
 

Vessels

 
 

HMS Albany (sloop)

 
 

Maria Theresa (ship)

 

Description

Condemnation.

Disposition

Sentence reversed.

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

Table of Cases (Lynch v Mowat; Lynch v Binney and Mowat)


DOCUMENTATION

Printed Cases

Not found

 

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

 
TNA Document Committee report (Lynch v Binney and Mowat) – 12 May 1781 (PC 1/57/81) view_Document
Notes about
Document
Referenced in APC v.6 [1010] p.589.

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