LEGAL INQUIRY COLUMN.

Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 66, 19 March 1931, Page 23

LEGAL INQUIRY COLUMN.

(By A BARRISTER-AT-LAW.) BOBS.—It is hard to draw the line between a gift, a coupon and a discount, and only upon investigation of the particular scheme could one pronounce upon it. The general idea of your scheme is discount, and not a gift of somer thing in another line of business altogether, and so long as you give discounts in goods in which you deal you should be safe. J.P. —The right to sue for payment lapses after six years from the date of supply or from the last payment on account, which ever happens last. COSMOPOLITAN.—(I) The Government Advances Office lends only on mortgage of freehold and certain leasehold lands. (2) The property you mention would not be accepted as security for a loan by the Government Advances Office unless all parties joined in the mortgage. (3) You may borrow on your share, but such a security is not attractive to lenders. (4 and 5) No. APIARY. —For regulations and restrictions inquire at the Department of Agriculture. CARRIER. —(1) You are liable. (2) The offer will have very little effect one way or the other, because your liability depends on other factors. P.E.L.—I cannot advise you on an agreement which I have not seen. Your liability as a husband is to maintain your wife, and the amount of maintenance payable in cash will depend on whether you are providing her with a home or not. COMPENSATION.—You have no legal remedy. ONEHUNGA. —The insurance company will pay you to the amount of loss you suffer, but not exceeding £400. If the house is worth only £300 that is ail you will receive. HARD UP.—You are not personally liable, though as the account will be small, a magistrate may well in equity and good conscience order you to pay. Your defence is simply that you were acting as agent only. HEDGE. —Thete is no fixed height. A close and sufficient live hedge constitutes a sufficient fence, to use the words of the Act. WORRIED. —You are liable for the hire from the time you took the article to the time of its return. The obligation was on you to return it. So long, however as vour circumstances continue so bad you are not likely to be pressed, and if you are no harm can result. BLUEGUM.-r-The trees are joint property, and you should consult your neighbour in any action regarding them. WILLIAMS. —(1) You are still ,iablc f or rates (2) J presume you mean the Mortgagor. If you notify the county clerk vour name will be removed from the rate book. You are liable still for rates owing at the time that your is or was removed. (3) The estate is not on your hands until you take out administration. You are not bound to administer. a vs-rr»Ti«? WIDOW.—The money does not ANX cou?t as incorae. Your pension will not be affected. nOTTRTFUL—You should make a claim for exemption and also for the old age pension. If you obtain the pension you wiU be automatically exempt.