Isle of Man Purchase Act 1765
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Act of Parliament | |
Commencement | 10 May 1765 |
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Repealed | 27 May 1976 |
Other legislation | |
Repealed by | Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1976 |
Status: Repealed |
The Isle of Man Purchase Act 1765
As an Act of Parliament of 1609 (
The Act gave effect to an earlier contract between
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
Having taken effect and therefore being effectively "spent", the Act was finally repealed by the Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1976.[2]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 | |
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Act of Parliament | |
Dates | |
Royal assent | 10 June 1825 |
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).
See also
References
- 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.
- ^ OCLC 6890466.
- ^ The Isle of Man: Celebrating a Sense of Place, Vaughan Robinson, Danny McCarroll, Liverpool University Press, 1990, page 126
- ^ Archives, The National. "Currency converter". www.nationalarchives.gov.uk.