Privy Council

This body, the constitutional advisers of the British king, was from rjco superseded for the most important busine by the cabinet. But it still retained one important function with respect tu the colonies, One of its four committees had cognizance, as a judicial court, of appeals from the highest colonial courts. It is not Lnown that appeals to the King-in-Council were taken from colunial courts before 1675. Some of the colonics refused to concede such: a;:peals until after this. But later statutes granted such appeal in a!l vases involving more than a certain sum, usually two hundred or three hundred pounds.