A Merciful Judge.
A County Court judge in London has given a debtor eleven years in which to pay a debt. It is not the first time the justice of the law has been tempered with mercy in this way. A poor widow who was sued at Shoreditch last year for the price of a sewing machine was given till January, 1911, to pay her debt at the rate ot threepence a week. Such judgments are very pleasing sometimes—when, for instance, a rich corporation sues a poor debtor under very trying circumstances; but it is not easy to see the equity of a judgment given a few years ago at Bloomsbury County Court. A trades union secretary was sued' for a thousand pounds, and the judge ordered that the money should be paid at the rate of eight shillings a month. There was humor as well as law in the judgment, for the debtor would have to live to be 250 before he could pay the debt, the last instalment becoming due some time in the year 2117.
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Manawatu Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 7275, 27 August 1901, Page 3
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178A Merciful Judge. Manawatu Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 7275, 27 August 1901, Page 3
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