Order in Council REGULATING APPEALS TO HIS MAJESTY IN COUNCIL FROM GUERNSEY.
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | SI 1823/5001 |
1823 Unnumbered
JUDICIAL COMMITTEE
ORDER IN COUNCIL REGULATING APPEALS TO HIS MAJESTY IN COUNCIL FROM GUERNSEY.PRESENT,
The King's Most Excellent Majesty.
Earl of Liverpool.
Lord Charles Bentinck.
Viscount Melville.
Viscount Sidmouth.
Lord Maryborough.
Lord Bexley.
Mr. Secretary Peel.
Mr. Wynn.
Lord Chancellor.
Lord President.
Lord Privy Seal.
Duke of Montrose.
Lord Steward.
Marquis of Winchester.
Marquis of Graham.
Earl Cathcart.
Whereas there was this day read at the Board a Report from the Right Honourable the Lords of the Committee of Council for the affairs of Guernsey and Jersey, &c., dated the 2nd of this instant in the words following, viz.:—
At the Council Chamber, Whitehall, the 2nd of May, 1823.
By the Right Honourable the Lords of the Committee of Council for the affairs of Guernsey and Jersey.
Your Majesty having been pleased by your Order in Council of the 23rd day of May, 1816, to refer unto this Committee a Report of the Commissioners who had been appointed to go into Your Majesty's Island of Guernsey and to examine into the laws now in force and administered between debtors and their creditors, and particularly as to the law of arresting and holding to bail debtors and others sued for damages as well natives of Your Majesty's said Island as other Your Majesty's subjects sojourning and inhabiting in the said Island, and as to the Law of Renunciation and Cession as administered and practised there, and as to all distinction in the said law between the natives of Your Majesty's said Island and Your Majesty's other subjects sojourning and inhabiting in the said Island with respect to the several matters aforesaid, the Lords of the Committee in obedience to Your Majesty's said Order of Reference, took the said Report into consideration and caused a copy thereof to be transmitted to the Royal Court of Guernsey for such observations as the Royal Court might think fit to make thereupon, and their Lordships also directed a copy of the said Report to be communicated to Your Majesty's Attorney and Solicitor-General of their observations; and the observations of the Royal Court having been received the same were also transmitted to Your Majesty's Attorney and Solicitor-General, who, having submitted their remarks and opinions as well on the Report of the Commissioners as on the letter from the Royal Court, the Lords of the Committee did at several times take the subject matter thereof into consideration, and having...
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