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Volume 10 - July 1949

Notes on Recent Cases

Contract—Gaming Debt—Fresh Promise to Pay

Contract—Gaming Debt—Fresh Promise to Pay Unenforceable

Criminal Law—Aiding and Abetting—Receiving Stolen Goods—Thief Convicted as Receiver—Summary Jurisdiction Act, 1848 (c. 43), S. 5

Contract—Mistaken Identity—Auction Sale

Contract—Landlord and Tenant—Legal User—Innocent Misrepresentation—Unilateral Mistake

Criminal Law—Larceny—What Constitutes Sufficient Possession to Make a Thing Capable of Being Stolen

Contract—Mistake of Law or Fact—Remedy for Executed Contract

Criminal Law—Broadcasting for Enemy—Intent to Assist Enemy—Burden of Proof—Duress—Direction to Jury

Contract—Sale of Goods—Re-Sale By Unpaid Seller—Buyer's Right to Recover Deposit

International Law—Mandate—Legislative Capacity of Mandatory—Freedom of the Seas—Interception and Diversion of Vessel on the High Seas

Landlord and Tenant—Periodic Tenancy—Date of Expiry of Notice to Quit—Validity of Alternative Form of Notice

Lease—Option to Purchase Reversion not Registered as Land Charge—Sale of Reversion—Liability of Lessor—Measure of Damages

Licence for Value—No Provision as to Revocation—Revocability—Reasonable Notice

Contract—Sale of Land—Completion by Instalments—Failure to Complete—Damages—Rescission

Money Paid by Mistake—Mistake of Law—Money Had and Received—Right to Follow at Common Law—Equitable Doctrine of Tracing

Tort—Homing Pigeons—Right of Farmer to Kill in Defence of Crops—Property in Pigeons

Criminal Law—Receiving Stolen Goods—Innocent Receipt—Subsequent Intent to Appropriate—Larceny

Perpetuities—Option to Purchase Land—No Time-Limit for Exercise—Specific Performance Against Original Grantor of Option

Deed—Covenant to Settle Property—Claim for Damages for Breach of Covenant—Right of Volunteer to Sue—Volunteer A Covenantee

Tort—Husband's Ante-Nuptial Tort—Wife's ‘Thing in Action’—Wife Entitled to Sue Husband for its Protection—Married Women's Property Act, 1882, ss. 12, 24

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Notes on Recent Cases