LEGAL INQUIRY COLUMN.

Auckland Star, Volume XLII, Issue 140, 14 June 1911, Page 8

LEGAL INQUIRY COLUMN.

<BX A BABRISTEB-AT-LAW.) J.J.C.—Under the circumstances you are not liable to be lined for working overtime without pay. You are free to make any bargain you like with your employer. You may, if you wish, and can without jeopardising your position, claim full pay for the time you were away ill. A UNIONIST.—Your question can be answered only by reference to the rules of your union. The vote ought not to be valid, but if the rules are defective it may be valid. If you will send mc a copy of the rules 1 will try to help yon. V.'S.D.—The man may be, and most certainly ought to be, criminally prose. . cuted. ALPHA.—The point raised is a very interesting one. My opinion is that in a cash transaction the property in goods ordered in a shop and placed on the counter by an assistant while he goes in search of other goods ordered, does not pass to the purchaser until possession has actually been taken, and the price paid. Thus if the goods are stolen in the assistant's absence, and while the purchaser is engaged in conversation, the loss would be the shopkeeper's. SHOPKEEPER. — A sale of tobacco, cigarettes, or cigars by the bookstallkeeper on the statutory holiday Is Elegal. G.B.D.—You cannot compel the local authority to open the road, but you may make your neighbour contribute half the cost of maintaining your fence, as he is profiting by it Also, you would be within yonr rights in opening the road yourself by removing the fence which closes it. ROOF.—You may have the roof put on in any of the ways mentioned. PUZZLED.—No formal steps are necessary. Simply can the child by the name of the present husband. R.H.R.—If you wish for my opinion of the forms in question, I say have nothing to do with them, but obtain the assistance of a respectable solicitor A nome-made will is apt to prove a most expensive luxury.