COLLECTION OF CIVIL DEBT
CRIMINAL LAW PUT IN MOTION. (By Association.) Hamilton, March 16. ''I consider this-a case where ; the criminal law has been put in motion to collect a civil debt," was the comment of Senior-Sergeant Cassells at the S.M..' Court to-day. He referred to a case in which the 'police had received instructions from Dunedin to arrestjind have remanded to Dunedin a previous resident of the southern city on a charge of selling a cash register' which he had falsely represented to be his. The 'arrestee appeared in Court, today, when a" local member of the legal profession 'said he had been instructed by a Dunedin firm of solicitors, who began the criminal proceedings, to withdraw the charge. • • His Worship said he. did not think there was : any doubt that the criminal side of the law had been used as a leyer to enforce payment. , Senior-Sergeant' Cassells: It is, simply • making the Court and the police debtcollectors, Your Worship. It is like enforcing payment at the point of the bayonet. '■. ■ . .. , ■Withdrawal of the charge was permitted. 1 . ' •.,
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2411, 17 March 1915, Page 7
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179COLLECTION OF CIVIL DEBT Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2411, 17 March 1915, Page 7
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