# Manx Primary Source Archive — Transcription

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**Transcribed:** 2026-02-25 19:26  
**Method:** Automated (Claude Batch API — claude-opus-4-6)

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the Barons Sign the Judgements of the last mentioned
Court And it has lately so happened (I know
not Whether by Accident or how otherwise) that
the Judge from whose Sentence an appeal has been
brought has in some instances Signed as one of
the Appellate Court the Sentence in affirmance
of his own Judgement In Short there is no end
to the absurd Consequences of Wild Innovation
But I do humbly conceive that in Such a case
common decency forbids the Judge whose Judgement
is under appeal from Sitting or even being in the
Court upon the determining thereof Unless called
upon to explain —

The Deemsters and some of the other
Officers have lately in a few instances put their
Signatures to the Jurats of Persons Sworn into
Office — This is also an Innovation and which
(if there were no other reason than that it is
an innovation) ought I apprehend to be Stopped

The Debit Court
Sits twice a year or oftener if required, for the
purpose of Settling the Fines &c on Presentments by the