LAW QUERIES.

Otago Witness, Issue 2810, 22 January 1908, Page 59

LAW QUERIES.

{Answered by a Solicttor of the Supreme Court of A'eto Zealand. Letters and Telegrams mutt be addressed to "LEX," do Editor, Otago Wittiest Ounedin.] Fabmeb.— The men are entitled to be paidin full for the period of their temporary illness if the contract of employment was not rescinded. Spobt. — VesT The -new Gaming Act pro- - hibits the delivery at a racecourse of telegrams "relating to. betting or k> investments on 'the totalisator. Shed Hand.— (l) If you worked "six hour* 'i more than the time contracted' for, you may c'aiin pay for it. (2) -There iB no proi vision in, the shearers'" award for extra pay for working on' New Year's Day. " Frequent Reader. — If the treatment - meted ou£ is undeeerved, v and you -• have .just^ , cause to fear that your relative / will do ' fibdily harm to you, your remedy lies in having him bound over to ieep the peace. Datrtkan. — The Butter Export 'Act of last, session enacts that any person, who exports or attempts' to export any butterwhich contains- motre than 16 per cent, of - w»ier commits- ah offence,* and is -liable" t<\ a fine not exceeding £50. " ■ , - • " . Constant Beadeb. — If the seller was not the owner' and did not sell under the- " ftuthefcity ' or with _ the consent ,of the "owner, ' then you acquire no better .title : to the building than the seller had, unless the owner by her "conduct precluded from denying th* seller's authority to sell. " !' . Cowboy. — If the land trespassed .upon is' ' unfenced land within Southland County you cannot , recover any , damages, - the remedy being the impounding of the bull. j On the other liand, if the bull 'broke into land properly fenced, you may cluirai full satisfaction for actual damage' sustained in consequence of the trespass. Shackled.— The new Divorce Act permitting '' - & dissolution of marriage .on the ground that the respondent has been . confined as » lunatio in ay asylum for- over 10 yewfß and is unlikely to, recover does not come into operation until the assent of his Majesty th« King thereto J&asi been notified-- ,' '- : A..B'.— ;{l) If the man is not a householder. • '" itV cannot >be, elected \ft member of the school " committee. " (2)~ A "householder" means and includes {«) every- adult male or female person who has for the period' of -three months next before the day of v election -resided in any* dwelling-house v ' within ,' the "school district" as "owner or j tenant thereof ; . (h) the - father, wherever • .resident, ori, if he ba dead' ox absent from the Dominion, the guardian or other per1 son, wherever resident, who has the actual custody of any child attending any State school situated within ,'such*' district; (c). in school, districts situated" within- a proclaimed mining district, every holder of a miner's right having for the period of three months next before the day ol election resided in the district, and not being an alien. -Wife. — If the husband* died leaving' a will,' without making therein adequate provision f<jr the proper maintenance and support of the children, the Supreme Court at ita discretion, on application by or on behalf of the .children, may order that suoh provision a's the court ihinka fit shall be - made out of the estate of th© testator for the children.