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Observer, Volume 7, Issue 337, 23 May 1885, Page 11

[This 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 to know the Jaw, but most Englishmen are content to find it out through their lawyer, although the contentment hardly extends to paying tho 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 Complete 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 ns by Tuesday morning will, if possible, be answered in the same week's issue.!

ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. Labourer. — If it was the case that no money became payable on the contract until completion, the County Council cannot legally be compelled to pay anything. The provision is unusual , however, and if it was not inserted the workmen can recover to the extent of the money due to the contractor, under the provisions of the " Workmen's Wages Act, 1884."

Instruments registered under the " Chattels

Securities Act, 1882."