LEGAL INQUIRY COLUMN.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIII, Issue 296, 11 December 1912, Page 8

LEGAL INQUIRY COLUMN.

BY A BABBISTEIBAT-LAW.

Letters of i»<_niry wui be i_wer_a trery Wednesday in this coiomrt. ..___. Us' _t poisible they will be dealt with ____.___* in which they are received, and replie, -m be Inserted with the least p_>__ib__ __!__. In order to derire the __!— teat —rutin from thi» coltmm, correspondents tarnM _uve full parUcalars of the facts net which they desire advice; Whatev«r tt* details supplied, ho—ever, no respoM—lK» osm be accepted' for error*, in ir____nw " way arising, though every effort will b* made to —sure accuracy. Answer* m based absolutely on the information _Jn_, and therefore, in all Instant.■_. can <£S •PpUed to the spec-fic case dealt waTT

ANXIOUS (I).—I am afraid yon —met have the alterations made, hot j*i should write to the Chief Secretary, Dt_—:—tent of Internal AH—rs, ___ ___, b—i. " V COMMENT.-(1) Six years. (2) An oaOtcharged bankrupt may be seed for (Wit, but he may not have the money to _ay after all. <3) It ls an offence if the debt exceeds £20. .. .... INQUIRER.—Second cousins may marry. ANXIOUS <2>.—You have «ent mc _j ——*■ matlcal puzzle in Roman figures, an_l' I am not good at mathematics ia s—pis Arabics. This mnch I can assure .-on— that there Is no lawful way of ""Kit the half of 12 to be ",■ eren with tie assistance of Roman figures. You *_c, if one half -is 7, then the other half ara-t be 5, and thns we get the enrioo. equation 7—5, "which Is absurd." Bat til* is not all. If 7—5, then 6ls less —ib 5, and still more is 5 less th_ It—-. Thus, if your friend owed you £5, i— paid yoa in full, yon could sue Ub tor the balance—lf the proposition W—. • which we start is sound. 1- hardly this* it is myself. .•'•■ T.Z.—The law does not entitle yon to destroy the dogs. Your legal remedy ii sne the owners for damages. If Va take the law Into your own _—i **l poison the dogs you will have .to _*T their value if the fact is discovered, and the owners sne you and prove tilt jw destroyed the animals. ■ Eren' —~>it m.ight pay you better than t—coosou* drain on yonr birds. % - ■?. TOir.Eß.—You have no remedy if the forulture has developed the delecu lines yon bought it, aad they were not is existence and hidden from view by-th» vendor when yon bought. GARDENER —If the benzine w«i ****__>* a position in which an ordinary' csttta man would not stow it your :—gnbo« •is responsible for the damaje... Yoi conld obtain an Injunction only on Snowing that the corner yonr neighbour Proposed was sufficiently dangerous, to- aw stltnte a nuisance to yon. ' T.H.R.—The road board has exeeeaedjW rights. They were wrong both In n*™* your fence as a retaining , _____ifr depositing stones on your property. F AIRPLAY.—If the owner of the _r— >4 will not order the other party to.more you have no authority to do so in J™* l own right. Yoa might do so If S* owner aathorised you so to do, is tas agent. If the owner will not help JWJi ynur only remedy Is to remove yonr 'Vat and other goods, and pitch yonr ■««■* risewhere. .... LIBERTY.-I cannot say, but Ido not-tliinlE the King on his corona*ion _—*"» an naval deserters. -'..- JUSTICE.—No, you need not pay the'fresH bill. . F.S.H.-The advice the detective "**.__? wrong, as one would naturally eT V__ seeing that the question was out of aJ sphere. The thief had no property B the money he stole, but as soon as urn money came Into your hands lnnoccnuy and for value given, then ItbMMW yours, and the previous owner's clam was dead. M.D.—Tbe vendor In such case Is res?o> sible to the purchaser, who may sue.i" the damage he has suffered. . . _. SUBSCRIBER.—No. '~;,. D.W.R If the suit does not fit. *"*'?? tailor cannot or will not make it <*. yon may recover the amount paid to uw tailor for It.