WIG AND GOWN.

Observer, Volume 7, Issue 333, 25 April 1885, Page 13

WIG AND GOWN.

column is intended to supply a want. There are some matters of legal information which are of special interest to many classes of the community ; these will be supplied in this column. It is desirable that leading cases and decisions should be brought "before the public in such a shape that they can understand them ; this we purpose week by week to do in ■this column for our readers. Every English subject is supposed fco know the law, but most Englishmen are ■content to find it out through their lawyer, although -the contentment hardly extends to paying the bill for the advice. In this column will be answered by competent authority any legal queries that may be sent us by our readers, so long as they are sufficiently concise to be dealt with in the space at our command. Thus •■we propose to make of this column the People's Com>plete Lawyer, embracing legal facts, legal gossip, and legal information on points of law useful to the public. Our readers are invited to take advantage of this • column by sending any queries they may desire to have answered. All questions that reach us by Tuesday momii'g will, if possible, be answered in the same Tveek's lissuc]

[A typographical inadvertence in our last issue •placed the heading, " Devil's Own," over this column instead of that which now appears. As to the appropriateness o£ the former headline there can be no question, but we think it -just a trifle too strong for the taste of this -dudine age. To an active imagination, the ■title " Wig and Gown" will be equally suggestive of " Horns and Tail."] Deputy Official Assignee, (New Plymouth). — The only explanation we can give as to " Why your name appears in connection with Rumney's deed of gift" is that some little "Buttercup " mixed those babies up " The mistake is a rummy one— kindly accept our regrets ; see correction below. H. — Yes, you can marry your niece if you ■choose; but it is not lawful to do so. Should .advise you to leave it alone. Query. — A., the owner of a horse, lets him on hire to B. for a year, at the weekly rent of 10s. (which is regularly paid). C, a judgment creditor of B.s, seizes the horse under warrant issued out of the K.jtf. Court. Who is the proper person to issue an interpleader summons ■against C. for the recovery of the horse ?— X.Y. * Aitswek.— Notice of ownership to bailiff should be enough. If not, and he sells, A. can Tecover the value of horse by a direct action against C. There is no case for an interpleader .summons disclosed in the question.

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