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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 560, 15 July 1909, Page 4

"Laws that allow of hair-splitting we-tar'; tho advantage of the lawyers, | and yet-you ,'; will find that tlie lawyers all over the world have, worked for reform of : th<J law even- in ; \_ tho teeth of bitter This 1 ro> mark was made by Mr.: ; Hl' F. vou Haast, y M.A., LL.B., iir tho '.course, of his lectureV.; to., tho 'Accountant Students', Society• las?'■• ■. night. Mr., .von Haast urged .tli.it'; tho- I:im of :bankruptcy. required.; amendment m con-.'! nectknv with "fraudulent preference,"', s» i; that tho onus of proof as to motive -'.might-: lio on tho defence; if it hiid been '■'(established .■'.■'.' that preference had been; givon to;a,'credi- '/;-,'. tor by a debtor who 'was iiisolvcnt.: . Tin - effect, of bankruptcy,on antecedent, transactions, was tho'. general subject 'of Mr,, you Haast's lecture,- and lie dealt.;.\vith.-.it in.'o' comprehensive and hicid inaiiuer,,arid.continued to brigbtiMi oven ieuch ,'a .liiglily.'.-.tdchv. '-■ nicnl tliemor.with'..'gleams''.of s charactcristio humour. , Mi-,. D. 5.-, Sl'iart presided ovor .'a ■:-'.' largo and attentive audiweo, and a;: hearty .' vote: ,of thatiks was accorded to ■ 'the , Ice- >. turcr. /'..'-.'■:.:.' ; }