Test Of Dead Man’s Liability
(Rec. 8 p.m.) LONDON. May 1. The Crown is to seek a High Court test ruling oyer the liability of a man to pay a fine after he is dead. It is to ask that the estate of a dead man should be ordered to pay fines totalling £lOOO still outstanding when he died in prison. The case involves a Southampton man who was imprisoned for two years for receiving and fined £ 1000 on further charges or prison term. He died in prison before completing his two-year sentence, and before deciding whether he would pay the fines. Now the Treasury is to sue his widow and son as executors of the estate, claiming payment of the fine. It is understood there is no precedent for such a case. It will be making a new law.
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Press, Volume XCV, Issue 28266, 2 May 1957, Page 11
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