LEGAL STATUS OF CAR
"ARTICLE OF FURNITURE" [BY TELEGRAPH —PRKSS ASSOCIATION"]CIIRISTCIIURCn. Friday According to a decision of the Chancery Court in England, a motorcar is not a carriage, but an article of furniture. $ This statement was made in the Supreme Court to-dav, when the Cour was asked to interpret a will on the question as to whether*! widow was entitled to her late husband's motor* car. Mr. Justice Northcroft held it would be difficult to agree that a motor-ear was not a carriage, but ruled that the widow had inherited the motor-car , under the bequest to her of "articles of household use. M The .Judge ruled that the trustees ' were not responsible for the main ten-, mice of furniture bequusted -to the widow for use during her lifetime.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23471, 7 October 1939, Page 10
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128LEGAL STATUS OF CAR New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23471, 7 October 1939, Page 10
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