MARRIAGE ACT BREACH
YOUTH'S STRANGE REASON IDEA OF GUARDIANSHIP In extenuation of his client's action in making a false statement under the Marriage Act, counsel told the Chief Justice, Sir Michael Myers, in the Supremo Court in Christchurch last week that accused, Cyril Dixon, had married a girl thinking thereby to become her legal guardian and so prevent her admission to an institution. Counsel said that Dixon was at present on probation for another offence. When 21 he would con\o into £IOOO from an estate. The girl was an orphan who had an eccentric aunt who believed in spiritualism. The girl was committed to a mental defectives' homo, but Dixon would Bay that the girl was more sane than ho was. His Honor: That is quite possible. Counsel said that Dixon may have been quixotic, but he thought that by marrying the girl ho would become her legal guardian and estop her going to the homo. Dixon had work to go to. Evidence could bo called that the girl was sane. His Honor ordered Dixon to come up for sentence if called on within two years. He would also pay £25 within 18 months, in default two months' imprisonment.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21274, 30 August 1932, Page 11
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