Act of Settlement 1704
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- Name
- Act of Settlement 1704
- Description
- The Act of Settlement codified the relationship between the Lord of Mann and the Manx people, securing land rights and defining the terms of custodianship. It happened because the Lord needed his tenants to invest in land they believed was theirs — the alignment of interest producing constitutional settlement. This was the arrangement Parliament purchased in 1765 without understanding what it was buying. Text available in Lex Scripta (1819), pp. 190–209.
- Date
- 1704
- Jurisdiction
- Isle of Man
- Related To
- Chapter 4
- Source
- Lex Scripta (1819), pp. 190–209, via Manx Notebook
- Type
- Manx Law / Constitutional