Appeals to the Privy Council

Report No. 11_1767_00

Laycock v Clarke

Rhode Island 

Case Name Short

Laycock v Clarke

Case Name Long

Godfrey Laycock (later Hannah Laycock) v James Clarke and Solomon Southwick

 

Acts of the Privy Council, Colonial Series

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APC Citation 

v.5 [46] p.115 – 26 August 1767 – entry 1

 
PC Register Citation 

George III v.5 (August 1766 – January 1768) p.460: PC 2/112/460

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APC Citation 

v.5 [46] p.115 – 7 July 1768 – entry 2

 
PC Register Citation 

George III v.6 (January 1768 – April 1769) p.240–241: PC 2/113/240–241

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APC Citation 

v.5 [46] p.115 – 14 April 1769 – entry 3

 
PC Register Citation 

George III v.6 (January 1768 – April 1769) p.493, 539–540: PC 2/113/493, 539–540

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Colonial Courts

Inferior Court – about 10 February 1766 (date suit was brought)

Superior Court – Newport – March 1767

Participants

Clarke, James of Newport

Laycock, Godfrey, merchant (later deceased), of Halifax in Yorkshire

Laycock, Hannah (widow of Godfrey Laycock)

Southwick, Solomon of Dartmouth in Bristol county in Massachusetts

Description

Book debt

Disposition

Reversed

Notes

The case was revived in the name of Hannah Laycock as widow of Godfrey Laycock.


DOCUMENTATION

Printed Cases

Not found

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

TNA Document Committee report – 13 Mar. 1769 – PC 1/54/64C view_Document
Notes about
Document
Referenced in APC, v.6 [812] p.470

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