LEGAL INQUIRY COLUMN.

Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 53, 4 March 1925, Page 11

LEGAL INQUIRY COLUMN.

(BY A BAKRISTER-AT-LAW.)

Letters of inquiry will be answered every week m this ccluinn. As far as possible they will be dealt wlfa In the order in which they are received, and replies will be inpmeii with the least possible delay.

ST VXLET —(I) Y ° u should notify your " ""employer In writing. mately £140 or its equivalent in weekly payments. This amount may be reduced by the payments you received under the next answer. (3) Fifty, eight per cent of your average weekly earnings at the time of the accident. CURIOUS —The poles having been erected on your land under a license or permission they do not belong solely to you I should say that each user is Joint owner with the others of those poles from which he derives benefit. You Bhould notify your neighbour in preference to the department, but In any case lack of notice will not prejudice you. RATES. —In your case the penalty seems to have been prematurely claimed. TECOMA. —You should obtain the consent of your neighbour in writing. TUT. —You should certainly have some written contract to bind the bargain while the title is being put in order. I should imagine it will not be at all easy to make out a good title. The new Act will not Improve your position. » SURVEY. —You should not, without giving your neighbour an opportunity of verifying Ms position, encroach on land "which he has used for so many years. In your notice to fence you can draw attention to the fact that the existing fence Is not on the boundary and that you wish to rectify this error in putting up a new fence. FINANCIAL.—You have the right to sell the property subject, of course, to the lirst mortgage. This means that you must get at least £700 for it, or else buy it in yourself at that figure. You will need your solicitor's help and should act quickly. PERPLEXED.— (1) I assume your sister has no children and that your father is dead. In that case, the mother and brothers share equally, and if the mother is dead you and your brother take all. If your sister leaves children they take all, and even if there are no children, but your father Is alive, he takes all. (2; On death you simply apply to the Court for letters of administration. HOUSE.—One calendar month, no matter what your circumstances may be. CHIPS.—It is difficult to advise yon. If you are going to sell up under your mortgage you will have to register If you propose abandoning the property to the first mortgagee you need not register. X.—(l) The solicitor's account is quite reasonable, and lower than mine would have been. I would not, If I were you, question the 10 per cent as if they charge for work done and not on a commission basis, you would, find £\ amount w °nlu be considerably higher. (2) You may take ore* the business yourself If you wish