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 28 Prerogatives "where exerciseahle, [Ch. Ill* dom extend to Ireland though not specifically mentioned, unless expressly excluded : in the same manner and for the same reasons that Scotland is bound by English statutes since her union with England, {a) The effect of the two unions is- to render the different countries inseparably one and the same, with certain exceptions : and as both Scotland and Ire- land send representatives to the English Parliament, there seems no reason why a statute made by such united Parlia- ment, without any mention of the places to which it should be applicable, should not bind the whole imited kingdom. With regard to the other adjacent islands, which are sub- ject to the Crown of Great Britain, some of them [as the Isle of Wight, of Portland, of Thanet, &c.] are comprized within some neighbouring county, and are therefore to be looked upon as annexed to the mother island, and part of the king- dom of England. But there are others which require a more particular consideration. The Isle of Man is a distinct territory from England, and is not governed by our laws ; neither does an Act of Parliament extend to it, unless it be particidarly named therein, and then an Act of Parliament is binding there, {h) This isle had ge- nerally been vested by royal grant in the hands of English subjects, who exercised a species of royal authority therein, by assenting or dissenting to laws, and exercising an appellate jurisdiction, {c) though an appeal lay from a decree of the lord of the island to the King of Great Britain in council, {d) This island is now vested unalienably in the Crown, by purchase, and subjected to the regulations of the British Excise and Customs, {e) The islands of Jersey, Guernsey, Sark, Alderney, and their appendages, were formerly parcel of the Duchy of Normandy, and were united to the Crown of England by the first Prince of the Norman time. (/) They are governed by their own separate laws, {g) and are not bound by our statutes, unless particularly named ; {h) though an appeal lies from the judicial (a) See ante. 21. (^) See 3 Geo. 3. ch. 26. s. 3^. (5) 4 Inst. 284. 2 And. 116. 1 Bla. (/) See Hal. Hist. Common Law, Com. 105, 6. 184 to 189. 3 Burr. R. 856, n. (c) See recital of 5 Geo. 3. c. 26. (g) 1 Bla. Com. 106. Even as to 1 Bla. Com. 105, 6. King's debts, 1 Chalmers' Op. 58. (rf) 1 P. W. 329. {h) 4 Inst. 286. decbioii