Isle of Man Purchase Act 1765

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Isle of Man Purchase Act 1765
Act of Parliament
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Parliament of Great Britain
Long title An Act for carrying into Execution a Contract, made pursuant to the Act of Parliament of the 12th of his late Majesty King George 1st, between the Commissioners of his Majesty’s Treasury and the Duke and Duchess of Atholl, the proprietors of the Isle of Man, and their Trustees, for the purchase of the said Island and its dependencies, under certain exceptions therein particularly mentioned.
Citation 5 Geo. 3. c. 26
Dates
Royal assent 10 May 1765
Commencement 10 May 1765
Repealed27 May 1976
Other legislation
Amended by
Repealed by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1976
Status: Repealed

The Isle of Man Purchase Act 1765 [1] (5 Geo. 3. c. 26), also known as the Act of Revestment, purchased the feudal rights of the Dukes of Atholl as Lords of Man over the Isle of Man, and revested them into the British Crown. [2]

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As an Act of Parliament of 1609 (Assurance of the Isle of Man Act 1609, 7 Jas. 1. c. 4) had conferred the feudal rights over the island upon the Atholls, a further Act of Parliament was required to terminate those rights.

The Act gave effect to an earlier contract between Charlotte, Duchess of Atholl, and the government of the Kingdom of Great Britain, represented by HM Treasury, to sell the Atholls' feudal rights over the Island to the Crown for a sum of £70,000. The authority to conclude a contract for the purchase was given under an earlier Act of Parliament in 1726 (sections 25 and 26 of the Customs, etc., Revenues Act 1725, 12 Geo. 1. c. 28).

The Act came into force upon the granting of royal assent on 10 May 1765. The payment to the Duchess of Atholl was to be made no later than 1 June 1765.

The Act did not go as far as had been proposed: for a period there had been plans to merge the Isle of Man into the English county of Cumberland. This had met with fierce resistance from the inhabitants, led by the then Speaker of the House of Keys, Sir George Moore. [3]

The long title of the Act was "An Act for carrying into Execution a Contract, made pursuant to the Act of Parliament of the 12th of his late Majesty King George 1st, between the Commissioners of his Majesty’s Treasury and the Duke and Duchess of Atholl, the proprietors of the Isle of Man, and their Trustees, for the purchase of the said Island and its dependencies, under certain exceptions therein particularly mentioned."

Having taken effect and therefore being effectively "spent", the Act was finally repealed by the Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1976. [2]

Subsequent rights sold

Duke of Atholl's Rights, Isle of Man Act 1825
Act of Parliament
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Parliament of the United Kingdom
Long title An act to empower the Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury to purchase a certain Annuity in respect of Duties of Customs levied in the Isle of Man, and reserved Sovereign Rights in the said Island, belonging to John Duke of Atholl.
Citation 6 Geo. 4. c. 34
Dates
Royal assent 10 June 1825
Commencement 10 June 1825
Repealed5 August 1873
Other legislation
Repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1873
Status: Repealed

Under the Isle of Man Purchase Act, the Atholls still retained their manorial rights, the patronage of the bishopric, and certain other perquisites.

These were sold in 1828 for the sum of £417,144 (over £20,000,000 in modern terms). [4] This was accomplished by a further Act of Parliament "An Act to empower the Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury to purchase a certain Annuity in respect of Duties and Customs levied in the Isle of Man, and any reserved sovereign rights in the said Island belonging to John Duke of Atholl" (6 Geo. 4. c. 34).

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References

  1. ↑ The citation of this Act by this short title was authorised by the Short Titles Act 1896, section 1 and the first schedule. Due to the repeal of those provisions it is now authorised by section 19(2) of the Interpretation Act 1978.
  2. 1 2 Hartley Booth, V. E.; Sells, Peter (1980). British extradition law and procedure: including extradition between the United Kingdom and foreign states, the Commonwealth and dependent countries and the Republic of Ireland. Alphen aan den Rijn: Sijthoff & Noordhoff. p. 5. ISBN   978-90-286-0079-9. OCLC   6890466.
  3. ↑ The Isle of Man: Celebrating a Sense of Place, Vaughan Robinson, Danny McCarroll, Liverpool University Press, 1990, page 126
  4. ↑ Archives, The National. "Currency converter". www.nationalarchives.gov.uk.
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