LAW QUERIES.

Otago Witness, Issue 2814, 19 February 1908, Page 51

LAW QUERIES.

\Atls\cered hi, a Solicitor of thr Svpreme Court of l\nn Zealand. Letters and Telearams must be atl'hegned to "LEX," co Editor, Otu^o Witness Jhtnedin.)

Cjckie. — The cost of obtaining letters of administration in the son's estate will be a. matter of arrangement with a solicitor. Farmer's Wife.— lf you are in possession of the evidence stated you can successfully sue for the recovery of tlie money lent. {Tokahahi.— It has been ruled by magisterial decieion that the millowner is liable under th© Workers' Compensation for Accidents

Act. iAsxiotrs to Know.— (l) If what you state is true you will be justifie3 in leaving your Ihuabftnd and applying for a summary -separation order on the ground of persistent cruelly. (2) It will be necessary to enlist th© services of a solicitor. (3) The magistrate will most likely give you the custody of the children. (4) The husband may be compelled to maintain them. (5) Th« he*d of \he family is under » legal duty to provide necessaries! of life. J> C Briefly, the law is thai if a person finds goods" that have been actually lost,

or are reasonably supposed by tV finder to have been lost, and appropru ie« them with intent to take the entire c'omimoii over them, really believing -when he takes them that the owner cannot be fou^d it is not laiceny, but if the fiiniei takes them, with the like intent, though lost, or reasonab'y supposed to be lost, but reasonably believing that the ownei can be found, it is laiceny. J. M. — (1^ Any person who uses any profane, indecent, or obpeene language in ai>y public place, or within the hearing of a2iy person in a public pi-ace, is h?ble to imprisonment •with haid labour for any term not exceeding one >ear, or to a penalty not exceeding £20. (2) If the imputation was conveyed that the person addiessed bad bet n guilty of a crime, it is open to the aggueved party to claim damages foi slender to any extent he think fit. (3) A stipendiary magistrate %-csted with special juu=dictioii may hear a claim" for recoveiy of pecumaiy compensation for slander if the amount sued for doe? not exceed £200.