LAW QUERIES.

Otago Witness, Issue 2805, 18 December 1907, Page 51

LAW QUERIES.

lAtmeered by a Soliettor of the Supretto Court of fStxi Zealand. ■ Letters and TeUpramt mutt .be d&dretsed to~ " LEX," cjo Editor, Otago Witness Dunedin.} £ktsatl Jack. — If the conveyance was by • way of security you will be liable for the balance if the freehold does not realise the amount advanced upon it. I Thundbbbolt. — (1) The old lady cannot recover anything unless there was an agreement, express or implied, to pay for her .services. (2) The proprietor may counterclaim for board and lodging. 1 Old Subscribes. — If your neighbour "plants j * faces upon or alongside, anj boundary line }

or fence, whether for the purpose of making a iive fence or otherwise, without previously obtaining your written consent, he is liable .to » maximum penalty of £20. Irrespective 'of any such penalty, you may enter on the land and cut down, eradicate, and destroy all trees so planted and recover the cost ef so doing from the person who planted them. Master Mariner. — Briefly, the Packet Licenses Act enacts that a packet license shall be issued to the owner, instead of, as heretofore, the roaster' of a ship; and power is given to the Governor by Order-in-Coiincil to make regulations restricting the grant of such licenses fo certain vessels. When a packet license is issued to a vessel no liquor must be supplied to a passenger already intoxicated; or io any officer or member of the crew without the written authority of the master, and no passenger will be permitted to "offer, give, or supply " any liquor to the master or any officer or member of the crew. The peiialty for a breach of these provisions is a fine not exceeding £20, and the licensee will , be liable for the fault of his servant. j Runholdeb. — Under the new Land Act the Land Board, with the consent of the Minister of Lands, may permit the holder of a pasturage lease >or license (a) to cultivate any portion of his run for the purpose of growing winter feed for the stock depastured on the run ; (b) to plough and sow in grass any portion of his run not exceeding 3000 acres; (c) to clear by felling and burning bush or scrub any portion of his run, and jsow the same in grass ; (d) to surfacesow in grass any portion of his run. The lessee or licensee must on the termination of the lease or license leave the whole of the area ploughed or cultivated properly laid down in good permanent grasses and clovers, to the satisfaction of the Land , Board. - % t