GENERAL INTELLIGENCE. HEIRS-AT-LAW AND NEXT OF KIN TUCKER (William). His grandchildren or great-grandchildren, or the legal personal representatives of such as died before Jan. 1, 1898, claiming under inquiries made in the matter of the estate of William Tucker, deceased, and in an action Michell v. Geake, to come in, by Oct, 27, and prove their claims at chambers of Sargant and Younger, JJ., and enter their names at Room 299, Royal Courts of Justice. Hearing Nov. 4, at 12, at said chambers, Room 297. APPOINTMENTS UNDER THE JOINT STOCK NOTICES OF APPEARANCE AT HEARING MUST REACH THE SOLICITORS BY 6 P.M March 18, at Royal Courts of Justice. Engall and Crane, 44, Bedford-row, W.C. 1. Notices of appearance by March 17. M. AND A. WARD LIMITED-Petition for winding-up to be heard March 25, at Birkenhead County Court, at 10. Bartley, Bird, and Co., Liverpool, sols. to pet. Notices of appearance by March 24. MACHEN STONE LIME AND COLLIERY COMPANY LIMITED.-Creditors to send in, at once, to E. A. Price, 179, Dock-st, Newport, Mon. MEADE AND CO. LIMITED.-Creditors to send in, by April 16, to E. E. Swingler, 671, Chester-rd, Erdington, Birmingham. MERTHYR TYDFIL AND DISTRICT PROGRESSIVE MONEY SOCIETY-Petition for winding-up to be heard March 19, at Merthyr Tydfil County Court. Simons, Smyth, and Daniel, Merthyr Tydfil, sols. for pet. London agent, E. A. Howell, 2, Pancras-la, Queen-st, E.C. Notices of appearance by March 18. PAUL MORTON AND SONS LIMITED-Creditors to send in, at once, to S. PROPERTIES DEVELOPMENT (LIVERPOOL) LIMITED-Creditors to send in, by S.A. PROSPECTING AND CONCESSIONS SYNDICATE LIMITED.-Creditors to UNION CHEMICAL COMPANY (WALKDEN) LIMITED.-Petition for winding-up to be heard March 18, at Manchester County Court, at 10.30. Pearson, Prior, and Co., Manchester, sols. for pets. Notices of appearance by March 17. TRADING WITH THE ENEMY, WINDING-UP EMPIRE BUILDERS LIMITED, 24-28, New Oxford-st, W.C. 1 (in the matter of Trading with the Enemy Amendment Act 1916). Creditors to send in, by March 31, to B. D. Holroyd, 6, Great Winchester-st, Old Broad-st, E.C. 2. L. BENJAMIN (in the matter of Trading with the Enemy Amendment Act 1916)-Creditors to send in, by April 11, to S. Pears, 14, Georgest, Mansion House, E.C. 4. MAX MERKER LIMITED, whose registered office is at 59, Charlotte-st, W. 1 (in the matter of Trading with the Enemy Amendment Act 1916).Creditors to send in, by April 2, to H. L. H. Hill, 2, Broad-st-pl, Finsbury-cir, E.C. 2. NOVITAS LIMITED (in the matter of Trading with the Enemy Amendment Act 1918).-Creditors to send in, by April 19, to E. James, 48, Gresham-st, E.C. TRANSVAAL UNITED TRUST AND FINANCE COMPANY LIMITED, Salisbury House, London Wall, E.C. 2 (in the matter of Trading with the Enemy Amendment Act 1916)-Creditors to send in, by March 31, to B. D. Holroyd, 6, Great Winchester-st, Old Broad-st, E.C. 2. CREDITORS UNDER ESTATES IN CHANCERY. MEMORY (Alfred), Islington, and Hatfield, Herts. April 17; C. W. Advances upon Stocks and Shares will be LEGAL AND GENERAL LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY. The transactions can be carried out expeditiously and cheaply, and full particulars will be sent upon application to No. 10, FLEET STREET, LONDON, E.C. 4. SNOWBALL (Lieut. Joseph Francis), Army Service Corps (Motor Transport), and Seaton Burn. April 16; W. J. S. Scott, sol., Newcastleon-Tyne. May 5; Younger, J., at 12. CREDITORS UNDER 22 & 23 VICT. c. 35. LAST DAY OF CLAIM AND TO WHOM PARTICULARS TO BE SENT. ARNOLD (John James), Hale and Manchester. April 23; Farrar and Co., BAILEY (Elizabeth), Royston. April 11; Wortham and Co., Royston, BATH (Thomas), Linton-on-Wharfe, Collingham. March 28; Hepworth and Chadwick, Leeds. BENNETT (William Seymour), Worthing. Worthing, Sussex. April 19; R. W. H. Green, BOADEN (Chief Eng. Edward James), s.s. British Baron, and Clapham Common. April 12; H. P. Russell, Bexley Heath. BOXALL (George Eedes), Hampden Club, Phoenix-st, N.W. April 17; CLAY (John William), Brighouse. April 15; Chambers and Chambers, CRICHTON (Col. the Hon. Charles Frederick, retired), Mullaboden, CROFT (Sarah Julia). Dulverton. April 10; Coburn and Co., 11, St. DAVIS (Alice Lillian), Cleeve, Bristol. April 22; E. Brassey, Chester. DE GOOREYND (William Maurice Koch), Belgrave-sq, S. W., and Hatton- DIXON (John), Leeds. April 15; Granger and Neild, Leeds. EDWARDS (Eliza), Alfreton. March 31; F. Searby, Alfreton. EDWARDES (Rev. George), Liverpool. April 12; T. Ottaway, St. Albans. EKE (Robert Stansfield), Cricklewood. April 14; Pearce and Nicholls, 12, New-ct, Lincoln's-inn, W.C. ELLIOTT (Eliza Ann), Highburton, Kirkburton. April 7; Learoyd and Co., Huddersfield. EMMERSON (Mary), Gosforth. April 7; E. Clark, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. FALCONER (David), Mark-la, E.Ç., and Croydon. April 5; Whites and FORBES (Alice Evelyn), Peckham-rd, S.E. April 15; C. Russell and Co., 37, Norfolk-st, Strand, W.C. 2 FELGATE (Elizabeth), Lenham. April 7; A. Neale, 1, Queen Victoria-st, E.C. FRANKS (Lieut.-Col. George Despard, D.S.O.), H.M.'s 19th Hussars, and Belgrave-sq, S. W. April 1; G. B. Laurence and Co., 19, Lincoln'sinn-fids, W.C. 2. FRASER (Alexander Caspar), Mongewell Park, Oxford. April 8; Dawes and Sons, 2, Birchin-la, E.C. GODDARD (John), Brighton. March 31; Church, Rackham, and Co., 46, Lincoln's-inn-fids, W.C. 2. GILL (Alice), King Henry's-rd, N.W. April 10; Coburn and Co., 11, St. Helen's-pl, E.C. 3. GRAHAM (Helena Christiana), Little Oakley, Northampton. April 11; HAMILTON (Gavin Francis), Argyle-sq and Lincoln's-inn, W.C. April 20; HINCHLIFFE (George), Meltham. April 26; Ramsden, Sykes, and HOLDNALL (John). Pensnett and Cradley Heath. April 30; G. Green, HOLMES (Edmund Sykes). Chorlton-cum-Hardy and Manchester. ILLINGWORTH (Margaret Holden), Bradford, and Queen Anne-mans, S.W. April 11; Heselton, Son, and Butterfield, 21, Market-st, Bradford. Sols., Gordon, Hunter, and Duncan. KIRK (John Croisdale), Leeds. April 11; C. F. Haigh, Leeds. LEE (John Robert), Altrincham. April 18; R. Hankinson and Son, Manchester. LILBURN (Leonard Thomas), Leicester. April 12; A. C. Palmer and Co., 271, Friar-la, Leicester. Sols., G. Stevenson and Son, Leicester. LITTLE (Major John Wishart), Indian Medical Service, and Karachi, India. June 1; Gedge, Fiske, and Gedge, 10, Norfolk-st, Strand, W.C. MASSY (Eyre John James), Kensington, and Baker-st, W. April 5; Le Brasseur and Oakley, 40, Carey-st, Lincoln's-inn, W.C. 2. MAYNARD (Henry Wheler), Wimbledon. April 7; Stileman and Underwood, 7, Bedford-row, W.C. MOSSE (Lieut.-Col. William Oliver Matless) and MOSSE (Ellen Eliza). March 31; Bird and Lovibond, Uxbridge, Middlesex. ORME (Anne), Buxton. April 23; Mason, Grierson, and Martin, Liverpool. PANNELL (William Henry), Basinghall-st, E.C., and Eltham. April 11; Lee, Davis, and Lee, 1, Gresham-bldgs, Basinghall-st, E.C. 2. PEARSON (Charles Fellows), Hampstead, N.W. April 26; Janson, Cobb, Pearson, and Co., 22, College-hill, E.C. 4. PRYCE (Thomas Samuel), Aberystwyth. April 12: A. J. and T. C. Hughes, Aberystwyth. RICHARDS (Lewis Mathew), Sloane-grdns, S. W., and Swansea. April 15; Capel, Cure, and Ball, 2, Southampton-st, Bloomsbury-sq, W.C. 1. RICHMOND (Frederick Pegler), Nunhead. March 31; Young, Jones, and Co., 2, Suffolk-la, Cannon-st, E. C. 4. RIGBY (Major Francis Burnham). Prestwich. April 8; B. Kuit, Manchester. ROE (Philip Morris), Manchester. April 5; Deputy Public Trustee, Manchester, ROVER (Charlotte Mary Hope), Moseley. April 8; Wallace, Robinson, and Morgan, Birmingham. ROBINSON (George), Leeds. April 7; T. W. Weldon, Leeds. SHIPWAY (Robert Bruce), Hampton Wick, and Westbourne-grdns, W. April 10; Underwood, Piper, and Heys-Jones, 13, Holles-st, Cavendish-sq, W. 1. SOMERS (Ellen Ann), Bath. April 8; Eyres and Whitty, Bath. SMITH (Edmund Hindle), Crouch End, N. April 11; W. H. Smith and Co., 10, Fenchurch-bldgs, E.C. SMITH (Frederick), Macclesfield. March 31; H. E. Smale, Macclesfield. SPOKES (Sarah Marsh), Kislingbury. April 1; Becke, Green, and Stops, Northampton. STANSFELD (William George), Wahroonga, Sydney, New South Wales. April 7; Gordon, Hunter, and Duncan, Bradford. STEPHENSON (William), Newton Heath. April 11; H. L. F. Berry, Manchester. TABNER (Emma), Wolverhampton. April 10; G. Maynard Martin, Wolverhampton. TALBOT (David), Mansfield. April 19; J. E. Alcock, Mansfield. TAYLER (Lieut. Harold Frank, R.E.), South Raglan Barracks, Devonport, formerly of Streatham. April 5; A. Powell, 37, Essex-st, Strand, W.C. 2. TAYLOR (Edmund), Heaton Mersey. April 20; Ogden, Lyles, and Co., TENNANT (John Robert), South Kensington. March 31; Rubinstein, TURRILL (Ann), or TURRILL (Henry), Stadhampton. April 2; A. H. TURNER (Gertrude Mary), Framingham Earl. April 22; Holt, Beever, under-Lyne. WATKIS (Elizabeth Margaret), Dulwich. April 12; Public Trustee, Public Trustee Office, Kingsway, W.C. 2. Sols., Corser and Son, Shrewsbury. WEBSTER (Edith Mary), Rottingdean. April 16; W. E. Tucker, Paignton, Devon. WEYRICH (Margaretha), Hove. April 7; Fitzhugh, Woolley, Baines, and WILLIAMSON (Capt. Adolphus Hudleston. R.N., C.M.G., M.V.O.). Whit- As a matter of urgency, a special general meeting of the members of the society will be held in the hall of the society on Friday, the 28th March at 2.30 p.m., to consider the Barristers and Solicitors (Qualification of Women) Bill, and to decide on the best course to be followed with regard to its provisions so far as the same affect the solicitors' branch of the Profession. E. R. Cook, Secretary. 12th March 1919. NOTE.-Only members and Press representatives will be admitted to the meeting. Any newspaper desiring to send a lady representative should obtain a card of admission from the secretary. SOLICITORS' BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION THE monthly meeting of the board of directors of this association was held at the Law Society's Hall, Chancery-lane, on the 12th inst., Mr. Charles Goddard in the chair. The other directors present were Messra. W. C. Blandy (Reading), T. S. Curtis, A. Davenport, L. W. North Hickley, G. P. Hinds (Goudhurst), and R. W. Poole. The sum of £565 was distributed to poor and deserving cases, ten new members were admitted, and other general business was transacted. LONDON UNIVERSITY. THE INTERPRETATION OF TREATIES. SIR JOHN MACDONELL (Quain Lecturer on Comparative Law) delivered the third and final lecture of his course upon "International Treaties," at the London School of Economics, Clare Market, W.C., on Thursday, the 6th inst., the subject being the interpretation of treaties. What availed it, asked the lecturerer, to have done with secret treaties, or to ensuring their safe custody, or to draft them with greater care and candour, if they were not interpreted alike? There being no common court to which all parties agreed to resort, and by whose decision they would be bound, treaties might remain unfulfilled, and there might be permanent dissent as to the obligations under them. True, there were rules to which diplomatists professed to adhere. But, being numerous, vague, and difficult to apply, disputants could generally pray in aid some of those rules in support of conflicting contentions. The Hague Conventions of 1899 and 1907 contemplated arbitration in case of disputes as to the meaning of treaties, but arbitration was a far from satisfactory method of interpreting treaties. It could not lead to uniformity. It was compatible with as great diversity in interpretation as existed at present. The Covenant of the League of Nations, arts. 13 and 14, also contemplated the settlement of questions arising under treaties by a court of arbitration or a permanent Court of International Justice. But, until there was agreement as to the rules of interpretation, there was every prospect that the experience of the past would be repeated; diplomatists were generally able to put their hands upon some of the many rules which appeared to favour their own construction; the correspondence between them with respect to the meaning of treaties consisting of the bandying to and fro of references to rules more or less generally accepted. The lecturer remarked that there had been, to the best of his knowledge, no thorough, critical examination of the rules of construction specially applicable to treaties. There was, it was true, a large literature dealing loosely with this subject; a literature revealing the frequent discord between diplomatists and jurists; the former inclined to construe treaties in accordance with the system or policy of which they formed a part and which they helped to support. There might actually co-exist two authoritative constructions of the same words; one group of countries permanently adopting one construction, another group adopting another. The lecturer gave as an example the interpretation of the "most favoured nation clause" in treaties of commerce. There were and long had been two very different views as to its meaning; this country and some others adopting one construction and the United States consistently adhering to another, with very important practical results. The lecturer then proceeded to trace the history of the rules of construction. In the Digest were to be found a few rules as to the construction of contracts, and many more as to the construction of wills and fidei-commissa. These had been extended to treaties. The origin of certain other rules of construction was to be found in books of scholastic logic. The subject of the interpretation of treaties was much studied by writers on law in the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries; and among those who had attempted to give a complete account of such rules were Grotius, Wolff and Vattel. The lecturer then entered into details as to the rules which had been laid down by jurists as applicable to the construction of treaties. He warned his hearers against undue estimation of their value. Most of them belonged to what might be called a mechanical theory of interpretation. Some of them assumed that what was inherently vague could be made clear; that what was unprovided for could be provided for by interpretation; that the authors of treaties had always present to their minds a long list of rules to which they desired to conform; and that there was a sort of magic in those rules which enabled one to extract out of treaties what was not in them. The lecturer particularly emphasised the danger of importing into the construction of treaties between nations all the technical rules applicable to the interpretation of private documents. He gave as an instance a speech by Mr. D'Israeli in 1847, in which the statesman sought to apply a rule of English law to the question whether certain provisions of the Treaty of Utrecht were "merged in certain other provisions" in the Treaties of Vienna. 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B., who died in 1918 leaving property of the value of £15,000 and upwards, bequeathed his business to his son, and directed that the acceptance by his son of this bequest should be conditional on his agreeing to pay an annuity of £500 to his (the testator's) daughter for ten years from the date of testator's death if the daughter should so long live. The annuity was not charged on the testator's estate or on the business, and the liability to pay it is a personal one on the part of the son. Opinions are asked on the following questions: (1) If the daughter survives the above period of ten years, will any and, if so, what duties be payable on the cesser of the annuity ? (2) If the daughter dies before the expiration of the above period, will any and, if so, what duties be payable on such cesser ? HENRICUS. CORRESPONDENCE. This department being open to free discussion on all Professional topics, the Editor does not hold himself responsible for any opinions or statements contained in it. THE POOR LAW AND THE MINISTRY OF HEALTH BILL. In the debate which took place on the second reading of the Ministry of Health Bill, Mr. J. H. Thomas said that: "Poor-law administration stank in the nostrils of every progressive man or woman, and much of the responsibility was due to the Local Government Board." Well, I am not prepared to disagree with this statement as to the Poor Law administration (though I should add that there has been great improvement of late); but I much fear lest, in consequence of this very strong feeling against the administration, the undoubted excellencies of the Poor Law itself should be forgotten. The main features of it are (1) that it gives under 43 Eliz. c. 2 a legal right to the necessitous to relief; (2) it provides officers who are personally responsible for the due administration of it. Assuming, as seems probable from the statement of intention which appears in the Ministry of Health Bill, clause 3 (3), that the guardians of the poor will be abolished and their powers transferred to the town and county councils and to their committees, it is essential that these two great principles should be preserved. Lawyers who know that this right of the poor dates from the time of Elizabeth, and that in the vast changes made by the Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834 it was fully maintained (see Merthyr Tydvil case, 82 L. T. Rep. 662; (1900) 1 Ch. 516), will be surprised to learn that this ancient and elementary right is in any danger. But it is; for when Major Astor was asked by Mr. N. M.Lean in the House of Commons whether this right would, in case of transfer from the guardians, be preserved, he evasively replied on the 17th Feb. that the "point should not be lost sight of." Now, nothing would have been easier than to have replied in the affirmative if the Government had intended to preserve it. And the danger is apparent not only from this evasive reply, for we know that the Government has declared its intention to act on the lines of the Local Government Board report made under the chairmanship of Sir Donald Maclean; and his report, though stating in detail the duties of the guardians which are to be transferred, not only omits to mention the duty to give relief to all the necessitous poor, but actually suggests abolition of the Poor Law, which of course would include the repeal of 43 Eliz. c. 2, and it makes no suggestion of re-enacting this its most essential provision. The wording of this clause of the Ministry of Health Bill is also very ominous. Fourteen times over in clause 3 the Bill speaks of the transfer of " powers and duties"; but when it comes to the guardians it only speaks of their abolition and of the transfer of their "powers "-nothing is said as to keeping on foot" duties," and nothing about keeping up the rights of the poor. The Health Bill, as a whole, is an excellent one; but may I suggest (a) that a definite promise be obtained from the Government that this right of the poorest be kept alive, and (b) that this clause be amended so as to show that such is the intention. J. THEODORE DODD, M.A., J.P. FUSION OF THE PROFESSION.-I see by your journal that the question of fusion of the two branches of the Profession in England has been again under discussion. Perhaps it may be useful for your readers to consider the system prevalent in all the English-speaking provinces of Canada. Here we have no fusion; the professions of a barrister and a solicitor are distinct; a man may be a barrister and have only the rights of a barrister, and a man may be a solicitor and have only the rights of a solicitor; but the fact that he is a solicitor does not debar him from also being a barrister, nor does the fact of a man being a barrister debar him from also being a solicitor. If a solicitor, being also a barrister, so chooses, he may carry an action through all its stages, or, if he sees fit, he may engage another barrister to take the case at the trial, or at any other stage, either alone or in conjunction with himself. Solicitors pass one kind of examinations and barristers another and somewhat more exacting. Usually practitioners combine both branches, but there are a few cases where a man is only a barrister or only a solicitor, or where a man, being both a barrister and solicitor, practises solely in one or other capacity. In legal partnerships the junior members of the firm usually do solicitors' work and the seniors the barristers' work of the firm. This arrangement on the whole works well. A CANADIAN. Toronto, Feb. 26. LEGAL OBITUARY. Mr. FERDINANDO STRATFORD COLLINS, J.P., solicitor, of the firm of Messrs. W. H. and F. S. Cllins, of Ross, died on the 9th inst., aged sixty. Mr. Collins was a member of the Law Society and of the Solicitors' Benevolent Association, and a past president of the Herefordshire Law Society. Mr. A. H. F. LEFROY, of Toronto University, died on the 8th inst., at the age of sixty-six. He was the second son of Sir John Lefroy, Governor of Bermuda and Tasmania, by his first wife, daughter of Sir J. B. Robinson, Chief Justice of Upper Canada. Educated at Rugby and New College, Oxford, he was called to the Bar by the Inner Temple in 1877. In the next year Lefroy went to Canada, where he practised and took silk. For some years he has been recognised as one of the foremost authorities on Canadian constitutional law, and his latest work on the subject was dedicated to his third son, who was killed on the Western front in April 1917. He was editor of the Canadian Law Times, which had developed under his control, and was a regular contributor to the Review of Imperial Legislation, published by the Society of Comparative Legislation. At the time of his death he was engaged upon a new edition of Mr. Frederic Harrison's lectures on jurisprudence, of which he writes enthusiastically in a letter just received by the writer, and refers to it as being complete so far as he was concerned with the work upon the volume. Mr. THOMAS KIRKPATRICK NUTTALL, a member of the Liverpool Chancery Bar, died on the 7th inst. Mr. Nuttall was called by Lincoln'sinn in 1890. GAZETTES. Professional Partnerships Dissolved. GAZETTE, MARCH 7. CHATWIN, FRANCIS AUGUSTUS, and EMERSON, GEORGE, solicitors, Birmingham, under style of Rowley, Chatwin, and Emerson. March 1. Debts by G. Emerson, who will continue the business under style of Rowley, Chatwin, and Emerson. EARLE, PERCY WILLIAM LEIGHTON, and BUCHANAN, GEORGE HERBERT, solicitors, Merthyr Tydfil, under style of Lewis, Jones, and Co. Jan. 1. Debts by P. W. L. Earle, who will continue the business under above style. HUGHES, GEORGE CHARLES; BUTTANSHAW, MARK NOBLE; and BUTTANSHAW, EDGAR, solicitors, under style of Hughes, Hooker, and Co., 26, Budgerow, Cannon-st, E.C. 4. Feb. 28. So far as regards M. N. Buttanshaw. GAZETTE, MARCH 11. HARDICKER, JAMES OGDEN, and HANSON, ALFRED EBENEZER, solicitors, Manchester, under style of J. Ogden Hardicker and Hanson. Dec. 31, 1918. Debts by A. E. Hanson. Bankrupts. THE BANKRUPTCY ACT 1914. RECEIVING ORDERS. GAZETTE, MARCH 7. To surrender at the High Court of Justice in Bankruptcy. ALEXANDER GRANT AND Co., Leadenhall-st, merchants. March 5. BAYFORD, FREDERICK, Vaughan-rd, Camberwell. March 4. CARDALE, COMMANDER HUBERT S., Berners Hotel, Berners-st, Oxford-st. March 4. LORD, JOHN EDMUND, New Oxford and Cambridge Club, Pall Mall, gentleman. March 5. MAUREY, PIERRE MONES, Mount-st, Berkeley-sq. March 5. To surrender at their respective District Courts. ANDREWS, GEORGE, Bournemouth, late builder. Ct. Poole. March 3. FOULKES, ROBERT, Ceidio, labourer. Ct. Portmadoc and Festiniog. March 1. KEOGH, THOMAS MATTHEW, Liverpool, general dealer. March 4. Ct. Liverpool. SMITH, JOHN HENRY, Bristol, late clerk. Ct. Bristol. March 3. GAZETTE, MARCH 11. To surrender at the High Court of Justice in Bankruptcy. FINKLESTEIN, BENJAMIN (otherwise known as Joe Finklestein), Durwardst, Whitechapel, tailor's machiner. March 8. SMITH, ALBERT E., late Beer-la. March 6. WALKER, FRANK, late Shenley, gentleman. March 6. WHITEHEAD, ARTHUR JOHN, Gunter-grove, Fulham. March 6. To surrender at their respective District Courts. ROBERTS, THOMAS JAMES, Kingskerswell, rag dealer. Ct. Exeter. March 7. ADJUDICATIONS. GAZETTE, MARCH 7. BAYLISS, LEAH, late Coventry, wife of Walter Bayliss. Ct. Coventry. March 3. FOULKES, ROBERT, Ceidio, labourer. Ct. Portmadoc and Festiniog. March 1. FRANCIS, JAMES HAMILTON, Colchester. Ct. Colchester. March 5. KENEALY, MARY ANNESLEY, Brighton, spinster. Ct. Brighton. March 3. KEOGH, THOMAS MATHEW, Liverpool, general dealer. Ct. Liverpool. March 4. SMITH, JOHN HENRY, Bristol, late clerk. Ct. Bristol. March 3. GAZETTE, MARCH 11. ANDREWS, GEORGE, Bournemouth, late builder. Ct. Poole. March 6. BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, AND DEATHS. MARRIAGES. HENCHMAN-HOLLIDAY.-On the 26th ult., at St. Peter's, Belsize Park, Hampstead, Hereward Humfry Henchman, Barrister-at-law, Brisbane, to Edith Isabel Maud, daughter of the late Charles Holliday. of Hampstead. SOLTAU-TARDOIR.-On the 4th inst., at Brussels, Lieut. Wilfred Gustave BOGUE. On the 1st inst., Edgar Bogue, of 6, Stone-bldgs, Lincoln's-inn. 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CORN PRODUCTS COMPANY LIMITED. -Sale of goods-C.i.f. contract.. PROBATE, DIVORCE, AND ADMI RALTY DIVISION. HINES v. HINES AND BURDETT.- 126 LEADING ARTICLES, &c. TO READERS AND CORRESPONDE 363 EDITORIAL TOPIOS AND LEADING 109 113 ROURA AND FORGAS v. TOWNEND AND OTHERS. Insurance (Marine) Voyage policy- Marine risk SAINSBURY (app.) v. SAUNDERS (resp.).- Defence of the realmEmergency legislation Appointed for the Year 1919Defence of the Realm-County Courts.................. 372 LAW SOCIETIES.-National Federation of Law Clerks 375 SIMMONDS (app.) v. POND (resp.).Motor-car Use of petrol - Unauthorised usage - Defence of the Realm Begulations ................... BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, AND DEATHS .. 376 The Law and the Lawyers. The Industrial Situation. By the time this issue is in our readers' hands it will be decided one way or the other whether this country, before the international situation is settled, is to be plunged into one of the worst industrial struggles it has yet encountered. That our essential industries must undergo fundamental reorganisation must be patent to everybody, and the workers, whether by brain or hand, are entitled to receive a larger share of the product of their toil than was theirs before the war. The question to be decided this week-end is whether that social change is to be brought about by negotiation or by methods which can only have a disastrous effect upon every person in the country and must tend to undo much that we have fought for in the last four years. It is an anxious time, and one can only hope that sane methods will prevail. Judicial Age Limit. MR. DE GREY, the metropolitan magistrate, on his retirement has given publicity to the rule by which those magistrates who have been appointed after 1896 are required to retire on reaching the age of 70. It is clearly in the interest of the public that some age limit. should be fixed for all judicial offices, but at the same time hardships on the holders of these offices should be mitigated by the provision of a pension. The mere fact that there have been judges who have proved themselves exceedingly competent even after passing fourscore years is no argument in favour of unlimited retention of office, for, after the age of seventy-five, at any rate, few men show sufficient capacity. LEGISLATIVE INTERFERENCE WITH TESTA MENTARY DISPOSITIONS. UNDER the civil law a testator has not the right to dispose of the whole of his property without regard to the claims of his family. Thus, by. sect. 913 of the Code Napoléon an owner cannot, either by gift inter vivos or by will, dispose of more than half his property if he leaves one child, a third if he leaves two Second Sheet. |