LEGAL INQUIRY COLUMN.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIII, Issue 57, 6 March 1912, Page 8

LEGAL INQUIRY COLUMN.

[.ANXIOCS (H.G.).—You-wotud-nor-'be prose | raited for bigamy if yon rema-TW, but if jonr -wife should. eventsaSy pro** j to be living, your second, marrtase i would bernol! and void. I REX.— Tonr only remedy is<"wto«tlet jonr subscription lapse, and do without the telephone. WArTEMATA.—It is too lute to,«ne now. I The timewinrit is 90-days. J HOME.-If' your agreement and j distinct, you may recover whatever damages you are proved to base Buffered through the-neglect of the vendor to perforin his part of the contract in 1 the given time. j SETTLER.—No time is- fixed by law for i burning scrub, and. strictly speaking. I yen are liable for all the damage your | fire causes. In practice, however, there j is rarely any trouble, and if yon grve i your neighbours notice the day before j yc burn, and take the- precautions you [ tneak of. yon should be safe. I> iijmiij. I you cannot.do more. AFAR—The. - ohaTge, I think, was a very fair one. The ordinary money collector charges ten per cent for getting in accounts. SUBSCRIBER.—B. is liable if the agreement berween him and D. can be proved. If the agreement cannot be proved, then C. will be liable. Prom what yon say. it will not be easy to prove that there -was any binding ! agreement by B. to pay, but it is not possible to form an opinion without perusing the documents and interviewing the witnesses. Ton win be well advised to engage a solicitor if you bring an action, and he-~wlll advise* you against whom to bring it after be has properly, considered tbe question. T.H.—A. may lease the farm, and if the lease is properly drawn.' the lease will hold good for the whole ten years. WORRIED—I do not think your apprentice has any chance of exemption. If you inquire, it should be from his commanding officer. A.B.C. — It is unlawful for an auctioneer at a public sale to buy for himself an , article given to him for sale to the public. i . I SAN REM.O i money. The statute runs .from the .last payment. f2> You would certainty fail to recover the nine months' rent. 1 L.C.M. —A marriage in either church will he perfectly lawful. The Ne. Temerc decree has uo legal force. | ANXIOUS.- You have no claim against your neighbour for any share of the cost of the fence if yon erected it witt- ! out notice to him. FAY —You mar claim a week's pay in Ueu of notice if you -dismissed withoutgood cause. TATENT —All the advice I can give is that y:>a should get some pataons to form "a small syndicate to finance the invention. No patent can be pot on th» market without money. Yon might write to the manager of The London Permanent Exhibition of Patents, and ask him for information as. to the objects and methods of Us ""msUtotlon. iMJEIRER.-Refer to your award; where the -rule should be set out. XBRES.--A divorce is obtainable on both the grounds mentioned in questions 2 and 3. but not on the grounds mentioned in Question 1. INQUIRER.— Your question is one which needs some thought. The transaction I 1? most unusual, and it will call for | considerable skill in the-execoHaa. Tour I husband should not spend any money T on the property without being secured. All money sunk in the land would be j srbjert to heavy death duties In case j of the owner's desth. and if the will should be destroyed or lost, the money -vonld be lost with it. A mortgage or a do-' of trust might meet the case; nr . rtpr still, an agreement for a ; partnership. Do you think the present owner would consent to a partnership? LhALF EXPENSES. POKSONBT. and f gPCPOK CaQ aa-ejt 'i aa-|i fcaflL