COURT OF APPEAL SUMMARY.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1577, 22 October 1912, Page 4

COURT OF APPEAL SUMMARY.

NATURE OF DECISIONS. Throo rather important decisions we'r* delivered in tho Court of Appeal ycstor-J day. One of those we.? in tho nature off an' interpretation of Section 29 of ; thq Crimes Act tn define tho necessary qualU h'ofttions of habitual criminals, arose in connection with the case of Mar*, tin William Tier, who was declared fl itunl criminal at tho Inst criminal fcs-i nions. This declaration was yesterday quashed, and the. Court lias laid down the principlo that if u person is to be con* doted on "four previous occasions witlu in tho meaning of Section 2it, the coItVKH tions must bo tho result of four wparnta trials or separate pleas of guilty. That; is to say, that no ono indictment can con* tain more than ono conviction. In another judgment, tho Court (Jμ, cided that compensation was not payable in respect of warranty and misrepresent tafcion. This point awe in connection with tho appeal of Schmidt and ■ Brilshnw v. Greenwood, which was allowed. ! ■ By allowing tho appeal in the case or the-'Commissioner of Stamps v. Peat, tha Court decided that a sum of £WM beins held in trust for eighteen infant grattfl-i children wns liable to Rift duty, nnd could not be treated as eighteen separate gifts of JSOO nnd be exempted. The case was the first of its kind arising under thfl Death Duties Act, IOfW.

Food, other llinn sugar, rioo, and lord, to the vnluo of .£149,035,000, wa& imported into Ihe lfnit*<l Kingdom ihirtni; lfiil, a<v cording to sUtistics published by tlio Bonrd of Agriculture and Fisheries,