AN EXPENSIVE "SCRAP."
An is generally known. the Courts have taken eogm>ance ot lie common view I hai it. rail a man a Certuau it. a M'noib hod n lie is not a Borman, l-rem-h jurisprudence has gone further. a.nd has tarnished a rule ahum i lie expression "a scrap "I pa per." ii appears ; I.: ; a i-er-laui lonaiu fallen io pay iiio rom he owed bis landlord, whoroupon tho landlord, iho lonani being mobilised, wrote io ilu> .Minister of War declaring ilia! the tenant "looks upon the agreement Mailed hy him a> a, >orap ot paper." The tenant brought a ithei aelion, and succeeded. In ordering the landlord to pay .C’J-IU damages. the Court decided that "Uie expression ‘a scrap ot paper' has now' heeonie history, and will for ever brand the nation which has exceeded all records- of duplicity and mtamy," and that to apply the term to anyone in the hurtful souse ml ended by the defendant in this ease “is and will always be the gravest insult to his honour."
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1616, 28 September 1916, Page 2
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174AN EXPENSIVE "SCRAP." Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1616, 28 September 1916, Page 2
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