party, juror, witness, or other person injured, to be levied in as full and ample a manner as any other de cree, order, judgment, or execution. Provided that any person conceiving himself aggrieved by any of the inferior courts, in awarding extravagant damages and costs, may, upon application to the governor, have the same further heard, and considered of in chancery, where it may be mitigated and rectified, or enforced as to the governor shall seem reasonable: which is to be final in the premises, without further relief by appeal or otherwise *. Council. WHOSOEVER is sworn, and after telleth the lord's council, or his own, he forfeiteth three pounds to the lord t. Courts. THE lord, or his lieutenant, may hold a court wheresoever pleaseth them, and do execution as oft and where pleaseth him, within the land of Man, except in passion week, at which time, execution of life and limb ought not to be done. But as for courts of challenge, all times in the year, and execution to be done. No court, judge, or magistrate, shall impose any fine or punishment upon any person on account of any criminal cause, until he be first convicted by the ver dict or presentment of four, six, or more men, as the case shall require, upon some statute-law in force; nor shall imprison any person arbitrarily, before a proper complaint is made and lodged, and an affidavit made to the truth thereof. Courts of justice, or magistrates doing the duty of their offices, shall have and continue the power of committing and fining any person for contemptuous behaviour, insulting or abusing them, or any of them, in the execution of their duty, according to the nature of the offence *. Tynwald Court. No Tynwald shall be holden on the Lord's day; but as often as the feast of St John the Baptist shall fall upon the Sabbath, the Tynwald and the fair to be the day following. Court of Common Law, or Sheading Court. THE Coroner of Glanfaba is to open the court of common law with this proclamation: "I do fence this court that no manner of person do quarrel nor brawl, nor molest the audience, and that they do answer when they are called, by licence of the king and this court. I draw witness to the whole audience that the court is fenced." Then to call in four honest men of every parish to serve upon the great inquest, to present all trespasses that shall be done within the half year, as follows: and their charge is to be given to them, viz. To present any who have abjured the land, and be received again into the same without the lord's especial pardon and licence. * A. T. 1736. To present all petty officers; that is to say, the coroner. lockman, moar, and his runners, the water bailiff and his deputy, and the forest keeper and his deputy, if they do not the duty of their offices according to law; and also all petty craftsmen, viz. shoemakers, cobblers, tailors, websters, women-weavers, and smiths, who do not execute their occupations justly, or do otherwise than the old laws of the land permit. Also, all persons who go to the hough where hawks and herons do breed, and take away either old or young hawks or herons, or their eggs out of the nest; and all such as go by day or by night, with his bow and arrow to the lord's forest, or with his hounds or greyhounds, to kill the lord's game. Also all persons, who shall set fire to any ling, turf, gorse, &c. within the lord's forest. Also all persons who leave the fell ditch or lidgates open to the low lands, also such as take up the lord's wrecks or floats, further than the low water mark, till above full sea, without the coroner or lockman, with two witnesses, with them Also all persons that receive a common thief. And all persons that keep stoned horses not worth six shillings and eightpence, or scabbed horses or mares. Also all persons who neglect to keep their boundary fences in lawful repair; and parishioners neglecting to keep the pinfold in repair. It any party to a suit in the court of common law, lives in Great Britain or Ireland, or wants proof from thence to be taken under a commission from the said court, he shall have time allowed for the same, not exceeding a year from the time that issue is joined, and a jury sworn upon the same: and if any such party lives in foreign countries, or wants proof from thence, he shall be allowed time at the court's discretion, not exceeding three years * A. T. 1736. A common law court shall be held at Castle-Rushen, or at such other place as the governor shall appoint, at the four following terms of the year: viz. Hilary term, to begin Monday next after the first Thursday in Febru ary. Easter term, on Monday next after the first Thursday in May. Trinity term, on Monday next after the last Thursday in June. And Michaelmas term, on Monday following the fifth day of October; for hearing actions real personal and mixed; at which court, the governor may preside by the deemster: and every defendant to be summoned three days at the least previous to the court day: which summons is to be verified by the oaths of two witnesses: whereupon the plaintiff shall file his declaration, and therein set forth his right or title under which he claims specially; and if the defendant be off the island, then such sum mons shall be given not only to the tenant in possession, but likewise notice left at the last place of abode of the defendant: and that each defendant do enter his appearance, and proceed to his defence, so that the same may be tried by a jury the second term: provid ed, that in case the defendant file a special plea or demurrer within twenty days after the first court, the same shall be argued at such short time afterwards as the court shall upon application direct; and in case the same be overruled, the defendant shall pay costs at the discretion of the court; and if within the island, be also obliged to join issue, so as that the cause may come on to be tried at the second court: and if resident out of the island upon the fourth court, and in matters of debt, where either party shall be about to leave the island speedily, the suit may be heard and determined at a special court, upon application to the governor ; and in case the defendant, or any of his evidences, live or be out of the island, upon good cause shewn, sup ported by affidavit, such reasonable time shall be allow ed for his defence as the court shall see proper: Provided that the deemster shall hear and determine suits in a summary way, without a jury, as heretofore accustomed, and that this act shall not restrain the court from giving either party this further time for the ap pearing to prosecuting, or defending their respective suits, as the court shall direct: any law or custom to the contrary notwithstanding. And whereas inconveniencies have arisen from proceedings of juries out of court, it is enacted, That all suits at common law, which require a trial by jury, shall be tried and determined at the common law court, and the juries for that purpose shall consist of six men; and the court may, upon cause shewn, order the evidence to be taken in writing, and the jury shall return their verdict in the face of the said court in writing, and not depart therefrom until a verdict is given: and if they do not agree upon a verdict in any convenient time, the court may order them to be confined in some proper place, and not to be discharged until they have returned their verdict to the said court or magistrate. And if any person shall apprehend himself aggrieved by such verdict, he may traverse the same to the house of keys, in all actions wherein the title of land or its appurtenances come in question, and by appeal to the governor in all other cases whatsoever: who shall proceed in such manner therein, as to him shall seem right; and the party traversing or appealing, shall give in bonds in three pounds within twenty-one days from the day of recording the verdict to prosecute such traverse or appeal with effect. Provided that this act shall not alter the present mode of proceeding in a summary way by jury of inquiry to find out lost or stolen goods or trespasses, where a jury of four men shall be sufficient; and that in the trial of all suits where a jury is by law necessary, the court before which such trial is to be, shall at least six days before the sitting of the court, issue process to the several coroners, requir ing them to summon two or more good and lawful men, as required out of each parish, of which the ju |