AN EXPLANATION
»Sir,- You seek an explanation in your issue of February 28, of the celebration of March 6 of the 66th anniversary of Maurice Ravel’s birth on March 7, 1875. Perhaps 4YA’s explanation is that on March
6 Ravel completed 66 years of life; this is the legal view. A man is 21 years of age on the day preceding his 21st birthday. On that birthday he begins his 22nd year. During the last war, a young lieutenant, who was to inherit great possessions when he was 25, was killed in France on the day before his 25th birthday. Was he 25, could he dispose by will of this property? The House of Lords held that he could; he was 25 at any time on the day he was killed in the afternoon; the law in this regard takes no account of parts of a day. There are other similar cases.-
JOHN
DOE
(Auckland).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 4, Issue 90, 14 March 1941, Page 4
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155AN EXPLANATION New Zealand Listener, Volume 4, Issue 90, 14 March 1941, Page 4
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