WHO OWNS WIFE’S CLOTHES?
S.M.’S CONUNDRUM i (Special to TUB SUN) WANGANUI, Friday. During proceedings in court today the question arose as to who owned a wife’s clothes, the husband or the wife. The magistrate said that unless the Wife could show that she bought them from her own earnings he considered that the clothing belonged to the husband. However, he did not want too much publicity about it. Counsel contended that the clothes w ere something in the nature of a gift to the wife, bought out of money given to her by the husband, and therefore must be presumed to be her property. Tn© magistrate recollected a case in Wellington where the wife ran away Was Proceeded against by her nu ®t> an d for the clothes she wore. The Bench then set another problem for counsel. If an overcoat bought ? Ut the llu sband's wages and worn m the daytime to keep the husband belonged to the husband, to whom did the blankets also bought out of his wages to keep both of them v arm at night belong?
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 430, 11 August 1928, Page 7
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182WHO OWNS WIFE’S CLOTHES? Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 430, 11 August 1928, Page 7
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