CUSTOMARY LAWS ACT 1422 5
Royal Fish
Alsoe if any Porpus, Sturgeon, or Whale, be taken within the Heads of Man, they be the Lord’s by his Prerogatives. 13 Lieutenant may take Enquest Alsoe we give for Law, that our Lord or his Lieutennant may take any Enquest at his own Will and Pleasure. 45 Partiality and misgovernment prohibited
Forasmuch as before this Time, by Misrule and Willfullness of the Lieutennant and Receiver, the Law of Mann hath been misgoverned to them that they hated too rigorous, and to them that they did like over favourable, soe that oft Times, through this Misgovernment, the People have been wronged, and Profitt taken to the Lord, otherwise than the Law would. And whereas Profitt should be taken not done as the Law would for Favour. Wherefore be it ordained from henceforth, that the Officers be true principally to the Lord and the Laws of the Land, to be governed duely and truely betwixt the Lord and his Commons, and betwixt Party and Party, without Rigour, Fraud, or Colour. And that the Deemsters may give their Judgment at their Perills, saving ever the Lord’s Prerogatives, and to be ruled by Advice of the Councel and the Deemsters. These three paragraphs are still in the Statutes of the Isle of Man (as at August 2011)