Isle of Man Purchase Act 1765

Isle of Man Purchase Act 1765^[a]
Act of Parliament
	Parliament of Great Britain
Long title	An Act for carrying into Execution a Contract, made pursuant to the Act of Parliament of the 12th of his late Majesty King George 1st, between the Commissioners of his Majesty’s Treasury and the Duke and Duchess of Atholl, the proprietors of the Isle of Man, and their Trustees, for the purchase of the said Island and its dependencies, under certain exceptions therein particularly mentioned.
Citation	5 Geo. 3. c. 26
Territorial extent	Great Britain; Isle of Man;
Dates
Royal assent	10 May 1765
Commencement	10 January 1765
Repealed	27 May 1976
Other legislation
Amended by	Statute Law Revision Act 1887; Statute Law Revision Act 1888;
Repealed by	Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1976
Relates to	Assurance of the Isle of Man Act 1609; Duke of Atholl's Rights, Isle of Man Act 1825;
Status: Repealed
Text of statute as originally enacted

The Isle of Man Purchase Act 1765^[a] (5 Geo. 3. c. 26), also known as the Act of Revestment, purchased the feudal rights of the Dukes of Atholl as Lords of Man over the Isle of Man, and revested them into the British Crown.^[1]

The Assurance of the Isle of Man Act 1609 (7 Jas. 1. c. 4) conferred the feudal rights over the island upon the Duchess of Atholl's ancestor William Stanley, 6th Earl of Derby and his heirs, meaning that a further act of Parliament was required to terminate those rights.

The act gave effect to an earlier contract between Charlotte, Duchess of Atholl, and the government of the Kingdom of Great Britain, represented by HM Treasury, to sell the Atholls' feudal rights over the Island to the Crown for a sum of £70,000. The authority to conclude a contract for the purchase was given under sections 25 and 26 of the Customs, etc., Revenues Act 1725 (12 Geo. 1. c. 28), which was passed in 1726.

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.^[2]

The act was finally repealed by the Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1976 as it was spent.^[1]

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^ ^a ^b Hartley Booth, V. E.; Sells, Peter (1980). British extradition law and procedure: including extradition between the United Kingdom and foreign states, the Commonwealth and dependent countries and the Republic of Ireland. Alphen aan den Rijn: Sijthoff & Noordhoff. p. 5. ISBN 978-90-286-0079-9. OCLC 6890466.
^ The Isle of Man: Celebrating a Sense of Place, Vaughan Robinson, Danny McCarroll, Liverpool University Press, 1990, page 126

[HB1980-3] Hartley Booth, V. E.; Sells, Peter (1980). British extradition law and procedure: including extradition between the United Kingdom and foreign states, the Commonwealth and dependent countries and the Republic of Ireland. Alphen aan den Rijn: Sijthoff & Noordhoff. p. 5. ISBN 978-90-286-0079-9. OCLC 6890466.

[4] The Isle of Man: Celebrating a Sense of Place, Vaughan Robinson, Danny McCarroll, Liverpool University Press, 1990, page 126

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