STAMP DUTY CASE
(IST TELKGRAnr.— PRESS ASSOCIATION.)
, CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. ". . "a. stamP duty case was continued ilns afternoon.
In opening Uie defence, ifr. Gresson said the whole section of the Act was governed by the words. "With intent to defraud." Therefore, the onus was on the Crown to prove guilty knowledge. He submitted there was "no duty cast upon a solicitor preparing a transfer to disclose any intermediate transactions, unless the purchaser desired the title from those transactions. No duty rested upon the solicitor to act as a "watchdog for the Stamp Department. The detendants had accepted information as tact that the Stevens and Aiming contracts had been rescinded. -Mr. Wilding, sear., would say he advised that Kiv.vruns were" entitled to ignore the earlier agreements, and self to whom they like). How could it be paid Dougall had any intent to rjefi-atid when be wHed cm his. father";? advivc and Wildma * -
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 117, 21 May 1925, Page 6
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151STAMP DUTY CASE Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 117, 21 May 1925, Page 6
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