THE HUMOROUS PHASES OF THE LAW.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 1888, 21 January 1875, Page 3

THE HUMOROUS PHASES OF THE LAW.

Can a hotel landlord charge anything for entertaining a guest's wife who may be travelling with him ? He cannot; because in law husband and wife are but one person, and the contract is an entirety as to that person. Hence, if th? name be entered on the register " Mr and Mrs John Smith," it is legally one person, but otherwise it entered " John Smith and Amelia Smith," because non constant that she is his wife. This has been recently decided in California, so says a newspaper, in relation to the admission of husband and wife on one theatre ticket, * * * Public Policy. The principle of public policy involving protection of the community against acts derogatory to the safety thereof, Qucere. —Whether equity could sustain a partnership between a physician and an undertaker?

Qucere. —Whether in Wyoming Territory, where women are permitted to sit upon juries, an old maid should be allowed to serve in a breach of promise case, and whether she might not be challenged •7 to the favour? "

Quaere. —Whether leasing part of a dwelling-house from one's mother-in-law, with covenants quiet and peaceable possession and occupancy, is not void ab initio, because creating an obligation founded upon an impossibility? '-'*■* Lex neminem cogitad impossibilia." Quare— Whether the language or letters of a lawyer, sued for a breach of. promise, can legally be received in evidence against him, they bein« in the natare of professional communications to his lady-love touching the disposition of her personal estate ? We submit the above knotty problem, to those learned pundits of the law who delight •' legum, nodos et enigmata sotsere," believing that they will, with equal feli-^ city, be able to decide that last new problem started by our female crusades against alcohol in their prayerful tresspasses upon liqii6r saloons, viz. .—Whether destroying the value of one's trade by prayers over barrels, on the ground that their contents have destroyed life, is making such a deqdand of the; whisky that the owner of a license cannot recover for loss of its sale ?—Albany LawJournal.