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ISSN: 0008-1973

EISSN: 1469-2139

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Volume 9 - November 1947

Notes on Recent Cases

Contract—Guarantee of void contract of principal debtor—Guarantee of infant's overdraft at bank held void

Criminal law—Murder—Felony involving personal violence—Use of loaded firearm a violent measure—Death of victim caused by inadvertent discharge of firearm held to be murder

Criminal law—Quasi-Crime—Mens rea—Intent to deceive—Ignorance of the law

Criminal law—Treason—Allegiance of alien holding British passport abroad—Adhering to the King's enemies without the realm

Landlord and tenant—Held that a lease ‘for the duration of the war’ was invalid owing to the uncertainty of the term

Landlord and tenant—Lessee's covenant to exclude named person from conduct of restaurant—Assignment of lease and reversion—Covenant held binding on assignees

Personal property—Innkeeper's lien—Lien over stolen property—Held: innkeeper entitled to exercise right of lien over such property

Personal property—Bailment—Service flats—Trunk, property of tenant's wife, deposited in baggage room—Landlord's liability limited by tenancy agreement—Loss due to landlord's negligence

Criminal law—Murder—Provocation—Wife's confession of adultery is not sufficient provocation to reduce killing from murder to manslaughter—Functions of Judge and Jury

Tort—Libel—Libel of a class—Action by individual member—No reference to individual member

Landlord and tenant—Landlord's implied obligation to keep house fit for habitation—Notice by tenant required—Housing Act, 1936, s. 2

Personal property—Innkeeper—Liability for loss of guest's property—Question whether loss caused by guest's negligence

Tort—Innkeeper—Refusal to receive guest—Action on case—No need to prove special damage

Tort—Negligence—Injury to children trespassing on minefield—Occupier not liable

Tort—Conversion—Possession of lost chattels and rights of finder

Landlord and tenant—Nature of tenancy created—Perpetually renewable lease—Demise for two thousand years—Law of Property Act, 1922, Sched. XV, para. 7 (1)—Law of Property Act, 1925. sect. 149 (3)

Tort—Absence of negligence—Strict liability under rule in Rylands v. Fletcher—Element of ‘escape’ essential

Tort—Negligence—Master and servant—Carter ordered to drive restive horse—Volenti non fit injuria inapplicable

Tort—Defamation—Slander actionable per se—Limited liability company—Words calculated to harm business reputation—Imputation of crime punishable corporally

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Notes on Recent Cases