destinely obtained, may be seized, detained, and delivered into custody, to be dealt with according to law (sec. 34, par. 1).

Offering, uttering, producing, or showing a Pawnbroker a pawn-ticket which the Pawnbroker reasonably suspects to have been counterfeited, forged, or uttered.

STATUTE.-35 & 36 Vict., cap. 93, sec. 49.

Pawnbroker may seize and detain the person and the ticket, or either of them, and deliver them into custody, to be dealt with according to law.

Making a declaration as claiming to be entitled to the ownership of goods in pledge, knowing the same to be false in any material particular.

Making such declaration as to the ownership of any pawn-ticket alleged to have been lost, mislaid, stolen, or fraudulently obtained.

Making a false declaration as to the identity of the claimant in either of such cases.

STATUTE.-35 & 36 Vict., cap. 93, sec. 29.

PENALTY.-Punishment of perjury.

Retailer of spirituous liquors taking a pledge for

owing for spirituous liquors.

STATUTE.-24 Geo. 2, cap. 40, sec. 12.

money

PENALTY.-40s., and pawnor may sue for the restoration of the pawn as if it had never been pledged.

Mode of enforcing.-Warrant under the hand of one justice. Application of penalty.-Half to the poor, remainder to informer.

Member of any corps of yeomanry pawning his arms, accoutrements, clothing, or ammunition.

STATUTE.-44 Geo. 3, cap. 54, sec. 44.

PENALTY.-40s.

Mode of enforcing.-Imprisonment with hard labour for one week, or until the penalty be paid.

Member of volunteer force doing the like with any public stores or ammunition issued for the use of his corps or regiment.

STATUTE.-26 & 27 Vict., cap. 65, sec. 28.

PENALTY.-£5 in addition to the value.

Mode of enforcing.-Distress, or imprisonment with or without hard labour for not more than three months.

Application of penalty.-To the general fund of offender's corps or regiment.

Member of Reserve Volunteer Force of Seamen doing the like with the above, or with slops or necessaries. STATUTE.-22 & 23 Vict., cap. 40, sec. 19.

PENALTY-Not above £3.

Mode of enforcing.-(Sec. 25.) Distress, or imprisonment with or without hard labour for not more than six months.

Application of penalty.-(Sec. 25.)-Half to informer, remainder (or, if he proves the case, the whole), to the Admiralty Commissioners.

Naval Coast Volunteers doing the like.

STATUTE.-16 & 17 Vict., cap. 73, sec. 19.

PENALTY. Not above £3.

Mode of enforcing.-Distress, or imprisonment with or without hard labour for not more than six months.

Application of penalty.-Half to informer, remainder (or, if he proves the case, the whole), to the Admiralty Commissioners.

Chelsea pensioner or other person pawning, selling, or illegally disposing of clothes, linen, stores, and

other articles marked with the words "Chelsea

Hospital."

STATUTE.-7 Geo. 4, cap. 16, sec.

PENALTY.-£20.

Mode of enforcing.-Distress, three months' imprisonment, or till the fine be paid.

Application of penalty-Half to the informer, remainder to the use of the Hospital.

Person employed in the woollen, worsted, &c. trades, selling, pawning, exchanging, or otherwise disposing of materials, tools, or apparatus.

STATUTE.-6 & 7 Vict., cap. 40, sec. 5.

PENALTY.-£20 and costs.

Mode of enforcing.-Distress; if not sufficient any justice may commit for not more than four months, unless sooner paid.

Application of penalty.-In making satisfaction to the party injured, remainder to the Queen, under 3 Geo. 4, cap. 46.

Laying Frivolous Informations or Complaints
Which are afterwards abandoned or dismissed.
STATUTE.-35 & 36 Vict., cap. 93, sec. 47.

PENALTY.-Not exceeding £5.

Application of penalty.—To person informed or complained against.

Compounding Informations without sanction of Justices. STATUTE.-35 & 36 Vict., cap. 93, sec. 48.

PENALTY. Not exceeding £10 (sec. 45).

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ADDENDA.

CHAPTER III.

OF INVALID AND UNLAWFUL PLEDGES.

A garnishee order, served upon a mortgagor by a judgment creditor of a second mortgagee, does not operate, as a pledge or otherwise, to bind the proceeds of the mortgaged [or pledged] property in the hands of the first mortgagee (a). Nor can a banker, with notice of the trust, transfer or otherwise apply trust property to the trustee's overdrawn account (b). Contra, when he receives the proceeds of a sale of his customer's property, without notice that the thing mortgaged [or pledged] has been previously incumbered by the customer (c), even if the pawn be a post-dated cheque, the drawer whereof becomes bankrupt after the bankers have given credit for it, and before the due date thereof (d).

A bond, declaring that the assets of a Building Society are liable to A. B. for money lent by him to the Society, does not amount to a mortgage [or agreement to pledge] such assets to secure the debt (e).

(a) Chatterton v. Watney, L.R. 17 Ch. D. 259, 50 L.J. 535 Ch., 44 L.T. N.S. 391, 29 W.R. 573 (in C.A.)

(b) Foxton v. Liverpool & Manchester District Banking Coy., 44 L.T. N.S. 406. (c) Roxburgh v. Cox, L.R. 17 Ch. D. 520, 50 L.J. 773 Ch. D., 45 L.J. N.S. 225, 30 W.R. 75.

(d) Exp. Richdale, re Palmer, L.R, 19 Ch. D. 409, 51 L.J. 462 Ch., 46 L.T. N.S. 116, 30 W.R. 262.

(e) Jones v. Swansea Benefit Building Society, 44 L.T. N.S. 106, 29 W.R. 382.

CHAPTER IV.

OF THE PAWNOR.

A married woman has no implied authority to bind her husband by [a pledge or other] contract, from the mere fact of cohabitation. If the husband forbids her so to contract on his behalf, he will not be bound by her acts, even though the creditor did not know of the prohibition (a).

The Married Women's Property Act, 1882 (b), has enabled a married woman to hold and alienate property, and to contract [by pledge or otherwise] with respect to it as if she were unmarried. All her contracts are now deemed to have been made by her, and to bind her separate property, until the contrary be shown.

One of two executors may, without the consent, and even against the wish of the other, make a valid pledge of the testator's property for executorial purposes (c).

CHAPTER V.

OF PLEDGES BY FACTORS, BROKERS, AND OTHERS.

A tanner, to whom a leather merchant has bailed skins to be tanned, is not a Factor or agent within the Factors' Acts, and a pledge of the skins by him, will give no title as against the bailor (d).

If a consignee of goods shipped under Bills of Lading drawn in a set of three, transfers two of such Bills in succession, to different bond fide transferees, the second of whom first presents his bill at the Docks, and obtains the goods thereby, the Dock Company is not liable to the holder of the first bill (e).

(a) Debenham v. Mellon, L.R. 6 A.C. 24, 50 L.J. 155 Q.B.D., 43 L.T. N.S. 673, 29 W.R. 141 (in H.L.) (b) 45 & 46 Vict., cap. 75. (c) Child v. Thorley, L.R. 16 Ch. D. 151, 29 W.R. 417. (d) City Bank v. Barrow, L.R. 5 A.C. 664, 43 L.T. N.S. 393 (P.C.) (e) Glyn v. East & West India Dock Coy., L.R. 6 Q.B.D. 575, 50 L.J. 62 Q.B.D., 43 L.T. N.S. 584, 29 W.R. 316, L.R. 7 A.C. 591.