LEGAL INQUIRY COLUMN.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 225, 22 September 1932, Page 21

LEGAL INQUIRY COLUMN.

(By BARRISTER-AT-LAW.)

[Letters of inquiry will be answered every week in this column. As far as possible they will be dealt with in the order in widen they are received, and replies will be inserted with the least possible delay.]

\ "SUBSCRIBER.—You must register as unemployed &fore you can obtain work under any of the unemployment schemes. MASSEUR.—I would advise you to write | to the Department of Health for full information, forms of application, etc. IV \ HURRY.—It will be quickest to put in bailiff. If the tenant does not leave when the bailiff ■ demands, the bailiff may seize everything in the premises. You need not wait for the notice to expire. SURREY.—You could not hope to claim a further 20 per cent cut in . interest after your principal had been cut by nearly 50 per cent. SUNSHINE.—The club, as occupier, has the " right to cut overhanging branches, it cannot compel the adjoining owner to top the trees to admit more light, the club's landlord Is in no better position than the club." V .JENKINS.—If the agreement was a straight-out agreement to buy, and not n hire purchase agreement, you can be held to your bargain. If it is a. hire purchase agreement your cancellation is effective. OHAKUNE. —As much as he could get. j p if you can prove fraud you may ' recover damages. It is not proof of fraud merely to show that you mode a bad bargain or that the property was not wortn wnat you paid for It. ROSY. —Your question Is not one of law The law does not deal with social obligations. FAIR PLAY. —You are liable, but the solicitor who acted for you whan you bought, or the vendor who sold to you, should refund the amount to you. WONDERING. —Give the requisite notice according to the nature of the tenancy. 88. The rent is reduced to 18/6 as from April 1, 1932, and any excess paid within three months past may be recovered by tho tenant. If you can persuade the tenant to leave you will, of course, be able to re-let at any figure you like. PERPLEXED TENANT. —You have no claim whatsoever on your former landlord. If the rent was too high, your only remedy was to leave as you did. Your present landlord can terminate vour tenancy by one week's notice, and all your rights over the property will then cease. If you require security of tenure you should take a lease. It is, of course, quite likely that you will be ajile to make an arrangement whereby you will have the first refusal. OLD SUBSCRIBER. —You may recover from the person who was responsible for lighting the fire all damage done to your property by it. You may have to sue. RELIEF.—Your interest is reduced to 61 per cent, and if the Prime Minister passes the legislation which he has promised, it will be reduced to 58 per cent. VERY WORRIED. —You apparently have several witnesses, and no written proof is required. It may be wise to see the policeman and get him to give you a note that he remembers the transaction. Write to your rather and tell him you have proof enough and refuse to give up the articles. MRS. L. J. F, —If the boy had not called in a doctor you would surely have done so. There is nothing in your letter which discloses any grounds upon which you could have compelled the boy to pay. I think that you will have to pay.

B o'G.—lf the interest charged is in excess of 01 per cent, it must be reduced by 20 per cent, but in no case to a rate below 61 per cent. I doubt whether the installation charge is affected. T B.M. —(1) The elector's qualification is personal and cannot be held by a company. (2) Rates may be recovered from the actual occupier, but If the occupier's contract with the owner provides for the owner to pay rates, the occupier may deduct any rates paid by him from the rent.