Council

In English Law. A tribunal composed of members of the privy council, established in 1833. It consists of the Lord Chancellor, the six Lords of Appeal, if Privy Councillors, and such other members of the Privy Council as have held any high judicial office in the United Kingdom, India, or the colonies. It is the court of final appeal from the ecclesiastical courts, from the courts of India, tile colonies, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man. It Is the ultimate court of appeal for 350 millions of persons, administering all the different systems of law of tenor and course of law In some of those Jurisdictions, especially Indian law. As to Australia, no appeal thereto lies from the supreme court in cases affecting the limits of the constitutional power of the Australian states, unless by special allowance of the supreme court. The South African constitution forbids an appeal except on.special leave of the king in council.

See an article in 44 Am. L. Rev. 160; Courts of England.