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Despatches: proceedings before the Court of Appeal. This volume contains reports...
Catalogue reference: CO 28/136
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This record is about the Despatches: proceedings before the Court of Appeal. This volume contains reports... dating from 1840 in the series Colonial Office and predecessors: Barbados, Original Correspondence. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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CO 28/136
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Date (When the record was created)
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1840
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Description (What the record is about)
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Despatches: proceedings before the Court of Appeal. This volume contains reports of appeals heard before the Assistant Court of Appeal together with abstracts of cases heard and decided by local magistrates. The 'abstracts' are entered on printed forms giving:
- names of parishes;
- names of justices;
- number of individual cases [male or female];
- number of individuals punished [male or female];
- general character of offences;
- general character of punishments awarded;
- number of appellants from the foregoing decisions who have appeared before the Assistant Court [male or female];
- number of appellants in cases wherein the original decision of local justices has been confirmed or reversed [male or female];
- remarks [giving brief details of each appeal].
Papers were transmitted to the Colonial Office by Governor E M J McGregor but he gives no additional information or comments.
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- The National Archives, Kew
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Public Record(s)
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Open Document, Open Description
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- Topics
- International
- Litigation
- Caribbean
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Colonial Office and predecessors: Barbados, Original Correspondence
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