MANN
ITS LAND TENURE
CONSTITUTION
LORDS RENT
and DEEMSTERS

R. D. FARRANT, F.S.A. (Scot.) F.R.A.I.,
First Deemster and Clerk of the Rolls.

OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS,

LONDON: HUMPHREY MILFORD. 1937.

Titlepage
Preface
	Page
CHAPTER l. - MANN LAND TENURE,
A.-The Allodial System	1
B.-The Feudal System	2
C.-The Destruction of Allodialism	2
D.-Copyhold and Customary Freehold	3
E.-The Legend of Godred Crowan	4
F -The Conquest	4
G.-The Freeholders	6
H.-Peculiarities of Udal Tenure	9
I.-And of Manx Customary Land Tenure	10
J.-The Comparison	11
K.-Roman and Other Laws	12
L.-Alienability	14
M.- lntacks of Three Descents and Barrane-Eirey	16
N.--Symbolic Investiture.	J8
O.-Orkney-Tenure and Manx Compared	18
P.-The Statutes and Ordinances of Mann	21
Q.-The Ruin of Mann and the Attempt to Establish Feudal Tenure	22
R.-The Growth of Customary Freehold and Creation of the Present Tenure	26
S.-Conclusion	28

CHAPTER II. - THE CONSTITUTION OF THE ISLE OF MAN.
A.-The Vikings	29
B.--Tynvald	30
C-The Icelandic Logretta	34
D.-The Comparison	36
E..-The Assessors	38
F.-The Reassertion of Tradition	40
G.-The Keys	41
H.-The Keys as a Legislative Body	43
I -The Constituences	46
J.-Tynwald as a Court of Law	49
K.-Thing-Courts aud Sheading Courts	50
L.-Conclusion	52
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CHAPTER III. - MANX LORDS RENT.
A.-The Odal System	54
B.-The Waste	55
C.-Shetland	56
D.-Skat	57
E,-The Occupied Lands of Mann	58
F.-The Common Lands	59
G.-Intack Enclosure	60
H.-The Rolls	61
I.-Firma Vasti.	64
J.-Summing Up	65
K.-Conclusion	66

CHAPTER IV. - THE DEEMSTER.
A.-Introduction	67
B.-The Present	67
C.-The Past.,.	68
D.-The Domstaurr	69
F.-The Icelandic Logsogumadr	70
F.-The Change of Faith	72
G.-The Deemster as a Legislator	73
H.-Breast Law and Tokens	74

APPENDIX.
Deemster's Oath	75
Coroner's Oath	75
Index	76




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