A NOVEL DEFENCE.
{By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. A novel point of law was raised in the Magistrate's Court to-day, when a claim for board and lodging and money lent was being heard. Mr. Wilford, counsel for the defence, said the debt was contracted in South Africa twelve months ago. He did not deny that a summons could be issued, but the law of South Africa was the law that must govern the transaction, and he understood that in that country one could not sue for a debt that had been owing for more than six months. Mr. Jackson, counsel for the plaintiff, argued that the parties to the suit were domiciled in New Zealand, and that the law of New Zealand therefore applied to the case. The magistrate, Mr. Riddell, reserved judgment.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 253, 23 October 1907, Page 5
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134A NOVEL DEFENCE. Auckland Star, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 253, 23 October 1907, Page 5
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