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The legal system on the Isle of Man is Manx customary law, a form of common law.Manx law originally derived from Gaelic Brehon law and Norse Udal law. [1] Since those early beginnings, Manx law has developed under the heavy influence of English common law, and the uniqueness of the Brehon and Udal foundation is now most apparent only in property and constitutional areas of law.
Isle of Man (Customs) Acts; Isle of Man (War Legislation) Act 1939; Isle of Man Act 1958; High Court of Justice (Isle of Man) Isle of Man Law Society; Isle of Man Office of Fair Trading; Isle of Man Purchase Act 1765; Isle of Man Pure Beer Act
Decimal Currency (Isle of Man) Act 1970 (repealed) Litter Act 1972 (c.14) Fees, Charges Etc. Enabling Act 1972; European Communities (Isle of Man) Act 1973 (c.14) Domicile and Matrimonial Proceedings Act 1974 (c.15) Estate Agents Act 1975 (c.6) Control of Employment Act 1975 (c.25) Constitution (Amendment) Act 1975
The Isle of Man Companies Acts 1931 to 2004, also known as the 1931 Act, is the law under which most Isle of Man Companies are established. It replaced the existing 1865 Isle of Man Companies Act and closely follows a template based on the English Companies Act 1929.
In 2003, two Isle of Man law firms Cains, and Dickinson Cruickshank (now Appleby) began to jointly lobby the Isle of Man Government to enact a new legislation for a New Manx Vehicle (NMV) which could compete on equal terms with the International Business Companies being turned out in the thousand by the British Virgin Islands (‘BVI’).
The superior court of the Isle of Man is the High Court of Justice of the Isle of Man, consisting of a Civil Division and an appeal division, called the Staff of Government Division. The judges of the High Court are the deemsters , appointed by the King (acting on the advice of the Secretary of State for Justice in the United Kingdom), and the ...
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The Isle of Man Act 1958 (6 & 7 Eliz. 2.c. 11) restated the Common Purse Agreement between the United Kingdom and the Isle of Man.. It also ended control by the UK Treasury over Manx finances, and granted Tynwald powers to legislate with regard to customs, harbours, loans, mines, the police and the civil service.