THE BIGAMY QUESTION
FULL APPEAL COUET TO DECIDE.
Some little time ago <v most startling decision was given by the Chief Justice ou a previous decision of the Court of Appeal relating to n. charge of bigamy against a niau who had committed the bigamous second marriage outside of the Dominion. Tho effect of the decision was only revealed by the later judgment of the Chief Justice, which was that not under any ' circumstances could bigamy bo a crinie under the law of New Zealand. The Court of Appeal held that tho definition was ultra vires of a Dominion Legislature. The Minister of Justice (the Hon. T. M. AVilford) announces that the Judges of. the two eections of the Court of Appeal will sit together to hear an appeal from the decision of the Chief Justice in the case of the man James Jaekfon, who is alleged to have contracted a bigamous marriage within New Zealand. Special authority has to be given !>efore both sections of the , Court of Appeal can sit together, and this matter has licen considered to be of such importance that the authority lias been given by Order-in-Council.
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 240, 4 July 1919, Page 6
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192THE BIGAMY QUESTION Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 240, 4 July 1919, Page 6
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