# Manx Primary Source Archive — Transcription

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Bill never has affected the Rights of the Lord
of Man; for it has never been executed.
As far as it relates to the Iſle of Man, it was
a haſty, precipitate, ill digeſted and ineffec-
tual Law, brought in on the ſudden, without
Notice, Debate or Preparation. I have a
Right to ſay ſo, for it bears its Character upon
its Face. It jingles in the Iſle of Man, with
Jerſey and Guernſey as if they ſtood upon the
ſame Predicament, It directs all Seizures to
be proſecuted in any of His Majeſty's Courts
of Record at Weſtminſter, or in any of His
Majeſty's Courts in ſuch Land, Iſland or
Territory, where the Offences ſhall be com-
mitted. It ſuppoſes His Majeſty to have
Courts in the Iſle of Man; if it did not, it
gives an abſurd and nonſenſical Alternative.

I have a Right to ſay, it was an ineffec- [margin: Lord Ward-wicke.]
tual Law. For this I have the Authority of
the greateſt Lawyer; whoſe opinions will be
cited and received with as much Reverence,
when he is dead, as they were when he was
living, and whoſe Decrees and Judgments are
become other Names for Law and Juſtice
themſelves.

It was his Opinion, that this Act gave no
Power to the Officers of the Cuſtoms to make
Seizures