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Appeals To The Privy Council From The American Colonies: An Annotated Digital Catalogue, Mary Bilder, Sharon O'Connor May 2014

Appeals To The Privy Council From The American Colonies: An Annotated Digital Catalogue, Mary Bilder, Sharon O'Connor

Sharon Hamby O'Connor

In recognition of the three-hundred anniversary of the accession of George I, the Ames Foundation announces a new electronic resource: Appeals to the Privy Council from the American Plantations: An Annotated Digital Catalogue. For the first time in centuries, the site makes accessible the important appellate cases that helped to define constitutional law before the creation of the United States Supreme Court.

The British Privy Council heard appeals from the 13 colonies that became the United States and from the other colonies in Canada and the Caribbean. Over 800 cases were appealed from the colonial supreme courts. Nearly one-third of …


A Guide To The Early Reports Of The Supreme Court Of The United States, Sharon O'Connor, Morris Cohen Dec 1994

A Guide To The Early Reports Of The Supreme Court Of The United States, Sharon O'Connor, Morris Cohen

Sharon Hamby O'Connor

A portion of this book originally appeared as "A Bibliography of the Early Reports of the Supreme Court of the United States." Legal Reference Services Quarterly 1, no. 2/3 (Summer-Fall 1981): 43-144.