CLAIM FOR £280

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 69, 23 March 1931, Page 16

CLAIM FOR £280

Proceedings taken hy Alexander Martin, furniture manufacturer, who claims £280 7s 2d from Edward Charles Teffs and John Richard. Pearson, restaurant proprietors, were commenced at the Magistrate's Court on 'Friday before Mr. T. B. M'Neil, S.M. After some evidence had been heard the Magistrate adjourned the case until Friday next to enable him to look into the legal aspect of a technical point raised by Mr. K. P. Hay, who appeared for Martin. • In his statement. Martin held that on 21st July, 1930, he agreed with Teffs and Pearson to carry out alterations and furnishings in premises occupied by them in To del's buildings. The contract price was £861. Further alterations and furnishings wore carried out at an extra cost of £.319 4s Bd. Teffs and Pearson paid £900 between 6th August and 4th October, 1930, so that the amount still owing was £.280 7s 2d.

There arc pleonasms which have the sanction of usage and of a desire for a sort of emphasis. The most important group of these may be exemplified by such phrases as "in any shape or form," "my own act and deed," "law and order," "ways and means." These phrases have a. curioua origin. After the Conquest the language of the law was for centuries a barbarious form of French. As this was unintelligible to the conquered English, ■the practice generally prevailed of coupling two words, one French and the other native, with the result that such pairs way now be counted by dozens.