Whether or not a third party can advance money to a man’s wife and hold the husband responsible for repayment, even though he had not asked for the advances to be made, and, in fact may not have known that they were made, was a point of law that came before Mr Justice AlacGregor in the Supreme Court at Wellington. It was held that in such a case the law would hold the husband responsible for payment if the money had been advanced for the purchase of necessities.
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Otago Witness, Issue 4033, 30 June 1931, Page 51
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