RESIDENT MAGISTRATE’S COURT. This Day.

Evening Star, Volume IX, Issue 2649, 14 August 1871, Page 2

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE’S COURT. This Day.

(Before A. C. Strode, Esq., E.M.) Civil Cases. Livingston (receiver of Land Revenue) v. Harris. —L 6 4s for foes payable on two Crown grants, one for section 4, block 32, and the other section 60, block IS, Dunedin. The defendant pleaded not indebted. Henry Livingston, Receiver of Land Re venae, said that the fees on Crown grants, were recoverable from the granteo'and the defendant was grantee of tbe sections referred to. Under section 37 of tbe Crown grants, 1860, one pound each was chargeable for the grants, and by section 40 of tbe same A ct 6d per month was payable by the custodian of the deeds so long as they remained unclaimed. Then under the Deeds Registration Act of 1868, section 15, fourteen shillings each was chargeable for registration, and by section 6 of the Crown Grants A muniment Act, 1870, power was given to the Receiver of Land Revenue to recover the fees, which amounted to the sum claimed. The defendant said his only objection to paying the fees charged was that although the grants were issued in his favor, the land had passed some years ago from his bands, and he would have di(fi-

culty in recovering tlie amount. not aware of these grants being in the hands of the Receiver of Land Revenue, not hiving notice of them. He considered it' a hardship that after so many years' he thou Id be called upon to pay the money, but he thought the. Government ought nob to have allowed the fees to accumulate. Mr'xLivingsten said that the Crown grants were gazetted as ready for delivery as soon as received,, and written notices had been sent to the grantee in every case. The defendant said that having parted with beneficial interest in the property, such announcements must have escaped his notice. Judgment for the plaintiff, L 6 4s and costs. Same v. Henderson.—L6 4s, for Crown grant and registration fees on sections 1 and 2, block 8, Molyneux. Judgment by default for the plaintiff for the amount. Same v. Donald Robinson.—L3 2s, for Crown grant fees on section 31, block 2, Dunedin. Judgment for the plaintiff for the amount claimed, with costs.