[from A View of the Principal Courts 1817]

APPENDIX.

Form of Proceedings at Common Law,

EXTRACTED FROM THE ROLLS' OFFICE.

A. B. quer. cont. C. D. in pit. detent. ed quod detin. ab eo parcel. ter de R. &c. unde damnum habet ad valor. &c. Qui appar. &c. If the defendant did not appear, as he might by the law stand out till the third Court, then the Record says, Qui non appar. &e. in misecricord. Curiae 6d.

ACT OF TYNWALD FOR THE PRESERVATION OF PAROCHIAL LIBRARIES.

WHEREAS several well disposed Persons have given a number of useful and practical books to the several parishes of this isle—in order to preserve the same from embezzlement, and that all future benefactors may be satisfied that their pious intent shall not be frustrated,

Be it enacted, that every rector, vicar, or curate, or their executors or administrators, shall be accountable for such books as are already remaining, or shall hereafter be given, or the full value of the same ; and every rector, vicar, or curate, shall immediately after his induction or licence, make a new catalogue of all the books belonging to their respective churches, and shall deliver the same to the Episcopal Register, to the end that the said books may be accounted for or made good according to the purport of this act.

The above act is signed by Bishop Wilson; and, as he took a most active part in the foundation of parochial libraries throughout the island, there is no doubt that it was also drawn by him.

STYLE OR CAPTION OF A SHEADING OR COMMON LAW COURT.

Liber Pacitorum, 1745 At a Sheading Court holden at Peel the 8th May, anno domini 1745, before the Honorable Patrick Linsay, Governor of this Isle,

AN ACT FOR THE MORE EASY RECOVERY OF DEBTS CONTRACTED OUT OF THE LIMITS OF THE ISLE OF MAN,

WHEREAS b : in the said Isle, j Jan ket OF Tynwald, promulgated | said Isle, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and thirty seven, it j . » It ls amongst other things enacted and provided, " That any person prosecuted in this island for a foreign debt, by any action of arrest in the Court of Chancery, shall, for the future, be held to bail only for his personal appearance to such action, and for the forthcoming of what effects he hath within this island, to answer the judgment upon the same."

AND WHEREAS it is expedient that foreign debts shall be recoverable in the said Isle in such and the like manner as debts contracted within the same:—We therefore, your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal subjects, the Lieutenant-Governor, council, deemsters, and keys of the said Isle, do humbly beseech your Majesty, that it may be enacted, and be it enacted by the King's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lieutenant-Governor, council, deemsters, and keys of the said Isle, in Tynwald assembled, and by the authority of the same, that from and after the promulga- tion of this act, all debts contracted out of the limits ofthe Isle of Man shall be recoverable in the said Isle, in such and the like manner to all. intents and purposes as if such debts had been contracted between the same parties within the limits of the said Isle. Provided always, that nothing herein before contained shall extend, or be construed to extend, to affect any person who at the time of the promulgation of this act shall have been usually resident within the said Isle for and during the space of six months immediately preceding the day of the promulgation thereof, or who hath been usually resident within the said Isle for one year before the commencement of the said six months, and who hath departed the said Isle in the service of government, civil or military, with an intention to return to the said Isle as the place of his abode, save and except as to all cases of debts or penalties due to the crown, and as to all cases of persons who have fled from their bail in any part of Great Britain or Ireland, leaving such bail charged or chargeable there; and also save and except as to all cases of persons who have committed offences against the bankrupt laws of Great Britain or Ireland, be lawful for the Court of Chancery of the Isle of Man, upon the production of an office copy of such order, judgment, or decree, and upon such affidavit or affidavits being made as required by the law of the said Isle, in order to obtain an action or process of arrest, to issue and grant the usual action or process of arrest against such person or persons as aforesaid; and that such office copy of such order, judgment, or decree as aforesaid, shall be deemed prima facie evidence of the debt or da- mage therein mentioned, upon the trial and final hearing of such action. :

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