Commissioners of Legal Enquiry in the West Indies, Volume 13, Report on Trinidad,...

Commissioners of Legal Enquiry in the West Indies, Volume 13, Report on Trinidad, 18 June 1827. Volume contains manuscript copy of the Trinidad report, arranged under the following heads:

• Laws;
• Courts in general;
• Individual courts: Court of the Intendant (and of Escheats); Court of Criminal Enquiry; Court of Criminal Trial; Court of First Instance of Civil Jurisdiction; Court of Appeal in Criminal Cases; Courts of Appeal in Civil Cases; Appeals to the King in Council; Court of Audiencia; Court of Admiralty; Complaint Court; Court of the Alcaldes in Ordinary; Alcaldes de Barrio;
• Officers of Courts;
• Persons of Colour ['Free Persons of Colour in Trinidad can sue and be sued and labour under no disqualification as regards their evidence. They are tried for Capital or lesser offences as white or other persons are and in the manner prescribed by the Order in Council 16 September 1822'];
• Slaves ['No other Courts but those for the trial of Criminal offences under the Order of the 16th September 1822 are established in Trinidad for the trial of Slaves'];
• Complaints relating to the administration of justice;
• Special observations;
• Observations on Proclamations of the Governor and Orders in Council;
• Observations on Courts of Criminal Enquiry and Trial;
• Observations on Civil Court of First Instance;
• Observations on Civil and Criminal Courts of Appeal and Courts of Intendant and Audiencia;
• Observations on Courts of Vice Admiralty and Admiralty Sessions;
• Observations on Complaint Court;
• Observations on Coloured People;
• Observations on Slaves;
• Miscellaneous Points: judicial functions and powers of the governor, the Cabildo of the town of Port of Spain; wills; proceedings in cases of bankruptcy and concursos, costs, coroners, arrests, registry of slaves, transportation;
• General Results.

• A. Examinations of the chief justice and judge of criminal enquiry;
• B. Appendix to the answers of the chief judge;
• C. Examination of the gaol attorney;
• D. Orders in Council and Proclamations referred to in report;
• E. Rescript of Pope Leo XII, dated 3 March 1825;
• F. Return of cases entertained by the Court of Criminal Enquiry from 1823 to 1824;
• G. Return of cases heard and determined by the Court of Criminal Trial, from 1821 to 1824;
• H. Return by the procurador syndic of slave complaints from July to October 1823;
• I. Return of actions entered in the Court of the Chief Justice from 1821 to 1822, and in the Court of First Instance from 1823 to 1824;
• [J. not used]
• K. Return of the estates sold by order of the Civil Tribunal from 1814 to 1825;
• L. Return of actions entered in the Complaint Court from 1821 to 1824;
• M. Return of the number of concursos filed and formed in the Court of First Instance from 1821 to 1824;
• N. Return from the chief of police of slaves committed as runaways from 1821 to 1823;
• O. Cases of complaint;
• P. Rules of the Court of First Instance of Civil Jurisdiction;
• Q. Spanish laws relating to appeals (with translations);
• R. Spanish laws relating to costs (with translations);
• S. Copy of report on the case of Inglis, Ellice & Company versus The Wilderness Estate in Trinidad.

Topics

International

Litigation

Caribbean

Europe and Russia

Slavery

Race relations

Debt

Navy

Wills and probate

Armed Forces (General Administration)