Administration and probate — Will, validity of — Will not executed in conformity with Wills Act — Later valid will — Subsequent codicil executed after later will on back of earlier informal will — Informal will, whether incorporated and validated by codicil — Intention — Probate granted of later will and codicil only.

Dentist — Offence — Exhibition of words "Dental Company" — "Dental Cash Order Company Proprietary Limited" — Whether words prohibited in such combination — Medical Act 1915 (No. 2695), ss. 69, 70, 72.

Execution — Deed of arrangement — Effect of deed of arrangement after execution levied against debtor's property — Insolvency Act 1915 (No. 2671), ss. 257, 262 — Insolvency Act 1897 (No. 1513), ss. 79, 83.

Factories and shops — Employ engaged during period in different classes of work — Different Wages Board determinations applicable — How rate of wages payable determined — Girders supplied and erected by girder-maker — Girder-maker's labourer engaged in connection with making of girders, and also of their erection in building — Whether entitled in respect of work done at building to be paid rate of wages provided for builder's labourer — Factories and Shops Act 1912 (No. 2386), ss. 133, 141.

Negligence — Passenger on motor-omnibus injured in collision on highway — Action by passenger — Onus of proof — Res ipsa loquitur.

Local government — Refusal of city surveyor to approve building plan and specification — Consent of Council — Matters improperly considered — Duty of surveyor — Mandamus — By-law of city of Essendon, No. 29 (1): Health Act 1915 (No. 2665), s. 286.

Will — Shares in company — Tenant for life and remainderman — Bonuses and dividends — Special bonuses out of accumulated profits — "Distribution of assets" — Income or capital — Company carrying on business as tramway proprietors under leases of tramways — Leases about to expire — Principal objects ceasing to be operative — Apportionment of bonuses — Profits accumulated before and after testator's death.

Local Government — Defence purposes — Lease by municipality to Commonwealth — Peppercorn rent — Validity of lease — Refusal of Registrar to register — Lands Acquisition Act (Federal) (No. 13 of 1906), ss. 2, 5, 8, 9, 13, 14, 15 — Effect of — Validity of Act — Local Government Act 1903 (No. 1893), ss. 238, 239 — Local Government Act 1915 (No. 2686), ss. 238, 239 — Commonwealth of Australia Constitution, s. 75 (3) — Transfer of Land Act 1890 (No. 1149), s. 209 — Transfer of Land Act 1915 (No. 2740), s. 248 — Mandamus to State officer — Duty and functions of Registrar of Titles.

Principal and agent — Sale of land — Authority of agent — Terms of sale — Condition that agent may retain commission out of deposit and pay balance into trust account until completion or annulment of sale, and thereupon be free from all responsibility and claim — Whether within authority conferred — Objection by principal — Right to commission.

Maintenance — Order for — Where husband or father has left Victoria — Order made in absence of defendant — Setting aside — Order transmitted to clerk of peace — Application to set aside — Whether Court of Petty Sessions has power to order — Justices Act 1915 (No. 2675), s. 66 — Marriage Act 1915 (No. 2691), ss. 86, 90, 93.

Local Government — Streets formed or set out on private property — Public highways — Forming, etc., such streets by municipality — Liability of owners of property abutting thereon to contribute to cost — Local Government Act 1903 (No. 1893), s. 526 — Local Government Act 1915 (No. 2686), s. 526.

Will — Construction — Gift in trust for beneficiary "until she attains her eighteenth year" — Implied gift — Gift of residue to "executrix in trust to dispose of in whatever manner she may think fit" — Trust — Void for uncertainty.

Health Act 1890 (No. 1098), s. 259; Health Act 1915 (No. 2665), s. 320 — Local Government Act 1903 (No. 1893), s. 313; Local Government Act 1915 (No. 2686), s. 313 — Nightsoil, removal of — Pan not in use — Charge, recovery of — Written demand.

Insolvency — Application for certificate — Offence — Court of Insolvency of opinion that insolvent has been guilty of felony or misdemeanour — Conviction — Form of — Want of particularity — Power of Full Court to vary conviction — Insolvency Act 1915 (No. 2671), ss. 31, 234, 275.

Criminal law — Negligent act or omission causing bodily injury — Injury not direct result of act or omission — Crimes Act 1915 (No. 2637), s. 23.

Factories and Shops — Offence created by Statute — Mens rea — Wages board determination — Payment of lower rate of wages than rate provided — "Improver" — False statement of age — Factories and Shops Act 1915 (No. 2650), ss. 194, 221, 226, 228.

Administration and probate — Administration and Probate Act 1890 (No. 1060), s. 112 — Administration and Probate Act 1903 (No. 1815), s. 9 (2) — Settlement — Property comprised therein partly situate in Victoria, partly elsewhere — Duty payable in respect of what property — Property originally comprised in settlement — Property in Victoria at settlor's death.

Police offences — Police Offences Act 1915 (No. 2708), s. 5 (14) — Obstructing footpath or road by placing goods thereon or otherwise — Bicycle placed on footpath.

Vendor and purchaser — Sale of land — Conditions of sale — Land tax — Purchaser to pay vendor a sum equivalent to the land tax (Federal and State) payable by the vendor in respect of the land sold — Vendor the owner of other land than land sold — Extent of liability of purchaser — Federal Land Tax Assessment Act No. 12 of 1911, s. 10 — Conveyancing Act 1915 (No. 2633), s. 12.

Justices — Complaint — Objection to Court — Other Court more easy of access — Place where "subject-matter" of complaint arose — Meaning of "subject-matter" — Goods sold and delivered — Place of payment — Debtor's duty to seek creditor — Failure to pay — Substantial part of "subject-matter" — Order to review — Whether order for adjournment may be reviewed — Mandamus — Preliminary objection wrongly decided — Justices Act 1915 (No. 2675), ss. 4, 86, 150.

Administration and probate — Practice — Probate — Caveat — Discovery — Discretion of Court to order general discovery — Rules of the Supreme Court 1906, c. 111 (Probate and Administration), r. 32.

Infant — Maintenance, past and future — Income of trust property insufficient — Breaking in on corpus — Capital value of property over 2000l. — Jurisdiction — Trusts Act 1915 (No. 2741), s. 65.

Dentist — Offence — Exhibition of words "Dental Company" — "Dental Cash Order Company Proprietary Limited" — Whether words prohibited in such combination — Medical Act 1915 (No. 2695), ss. 69, 70, 72.

Police offences — Sunday observance — Keeping open shop for purpose of trade or dealing — No by-law — Whether by-law necessary — Police Offences Act 1915 (No. 2708), ss. 49, 187.

Company — Reduction of capital — Petition — Practice — Order on presentation of petition — Advertisement — Creditors — Use of "and reduced" — Dispensation of — Companies Act 1910 (No. 2293), ss. 53, 54, 56, 57.

Contract — Building contract — Conditions — Common printed form — Named architect — "Architect for the time being" — Dismissal of architect by building proprietor during progress of work — Effect — Agreed certifier — Dismissal as agent of proprietor only — Power to give certificate to contractor — Rules of Supreme Court 1906 — Order XXV., r. 2 — Question of law.

Criminal law — Perjury — Surety for person under arrest — Administration of oath by justice of peace — Jurisdiction — Demurrer — Justices Act 1915 (No. 2675), ss. 29 (f), 31 (d) and (e); Evidence Act 1915 (No. 2647), s. 142.

Pounds — Trespass rate — Trespass of bull — Damage other than to land — Service of cows — Loss thereby sustained by occupier — Whether under s. 10 additional trespass rate in respect thereof may be demanded — Pounds Act 1915 (No. 2710), ss. 10, 25, 26.

Administration and probate — Practice — Commission — Executors — Administrators — Trustees — Passing accounts — Future commission — Form of order — Application ex parte — Application in suit or by originating summons — Duty of trustees as to keeping and passing accounts — Costs — When allowable out of estate — Administration and Probate Act 1915 (No. 2611), s. 34; Supreme Court Act 1915 (No. 2733), s. 18.

Evidence — Practice — Examination de bene esse — County Court action — Judgment entered for defendant — Application for new trial — Evidence Act 1915 (No. 2647), ss. 4, 9 — "Action or suit depending."

Insolvency — Appeal — Procedure — Special Case — Proceedings extra cursum curi — Jurisdiction of High Court — Insolvency Act 1915 (No. 2671), s. 32 — Commonwealth Judiciary Act (No. 6 of 1903), s. 35.

Customs — Duty — Contract — Sale of goods — "Agreement for the sale or delivery of goods duty paid" — Goods to be imported — Unascertained goods — Increase in Customs duties between date of agreement and importation — Alteration of price — Right of seller to add duty — Taxation, law with respect to — Law imposing taxation — Commonwealth Parliament, powers of — Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act, ss. 51 (ii.), 55 — Commonwealth Customs Act 1901-1910, s. 152.

Negligence — Tramway — Statutory authority — Defendant acting under — Extent of — Defective apparatus — Uninsulated wire — Escape of electricity — Injury to person using highway — Liability of tramway company — Extent of — Whether liable apart from negligence — Meaning of "negligence" — Rylands v. Fletcher — Misdirection — New trial — County Court — Particulars of demand — Sufficiency of — Tramways Act 1890 (No. 1148), ss. 3, 5, 13; Second Schedule, clauses 1, 4, 5, 21 — County Court Act 1890 (No. 1078), s. 146 — County Court Rules 1891, r. 41 — Res judicata.

Dairy — Charge of not holding licence — Renewal of licence — Retention of fee by authorities, effect of — Right of applicant for renewal to be treated as licensee — Report from supervisor — Condition precedent — Dairy Supervision Act 1915 — (No. 2639), ss. 12 (3), (5), (9), 24, 44 (g).

Will — Construction — Vesting — In interest or in possession — "Die before attaining a vested interest" — Life interest preceding distribution of residue — Vesting at testator's death — Children and grandchildren — Per capita.

Administration and Probate — Probate — Will — Solicitor and client — Gift to solicitor of testatrix — Onus probandi — Independent advice.

Criminal appeal — Report of trial Judge — Disclosure to parties — Conclusiveness of report — Exception to conclusiveness — Crimes Act 1915 (No. 2637), ss. 598, 599.

Administration and Probate — Authority to trustee company to apply for probate — Withdrawal of authority by consent — Rights of executor — Administration and Probate Act 1915 (No. 2611), s. 7 (1), 8.

Will — Construction — Gift of specified property to executors for sole use and benefit of wife for her support during her life — Subsequent dispositions — Other assets — "Balance if any is left" — Whether gift of specific property absolute or for life interest only.

Will — Construction — Rule in Shelley's Case — Use of words of distribution — Effect of — Real Property Act 1915 (No. 2719), s. 62 — Wills Act 1915 (No. 2749), s. 26.

Insolvency — Application for certificate — Offence — Court of Insolvency of opinion that insolvent has been guilty of felony or misdeameanour — Conviction — Form of — Want of particularity — Power of Full Court to vary conviction — Insolvency Act 1915 (No. 2671), ss. 31, 234, 275.

Vendor and purchaser — Contract — Misrepresentation — Deceit — Sale of land — False representation by agent that principal was a mortgagee — Inducement — Materiality — Principal innocent of fraud — Obligation of fraudulent agent to indemnify purchaser — Parties — Rules of Supreme Court — Order XVI., r. 4 — Joinder of principal and agent as defendants — Relief obtainable — Rescission and restitution — Damages — Value of repairs and improvements by purchaser — Other expenditure by purchaser — Findings of fact — Duty of Appellate Court — Evidence — Admission — Burden of proof.

Factories and shops — Offence created by Statute — Mens rea — Wages board determination — Payment of lower rate of wages than rate provided — "Improver" — False statement of age — Reasonable belief of employer, whether defence — Factories and Shops Act 1915 (No. 2650), ss. 194, 221, 226, 228 — Fixing penalty.

Insolvency — Order nisi — Estate placed in hands of assignee for district other than that in which assignee resides — Jurisdiction — Amendment of order nisi — Insolvency Act 1915 (No. 2671), ss. 35, 41, 52, 69, 70.

War precautions — Mens rea — Criminal law — Master and servant — Prohibition of sale of military badges — Sale by servant — Sale in absence of and against instructions of master — Whether master guilty of offence — Commonwealth War Precautions Act 1914-1915, s. 6 — War Precautions Regulations 1915, No. 42A.

Criminal law — Evidence — Sodomy, charge of — Similar acts committed on prior and subsequent days, admissibility of evidence as to — Rules as to admission of evidence of similar acts — Crimes Act 1915 (No. 2637), s. 477.

Criminal law — Autrefois convict — Plea of — Test of validity — Offences — Interference with goods subject to control of Customs — Conviction of that offence — Larceny — Subsequent charge of in relation to same goods — Whether conviction of interference a bar to charge of larceny — Commonwealth Customs Act 1901-1914, s. 33 — Acts Interpretation Act 1915 (No. 2609), s. 25 — Crimes Act 1915 (No. 2637), s. 427.

Gold buyers — Criminal law — Gold Buyers Act 1915 (No. 2662), s. 48 — Person having possession of gold and failing to satisfy a member of the police force that he came lawfully by it.

Criminal law — Notice of intention to prefer presentment — Place of trial — Discretion of Attorney-General — Review by Court — "Good cause," what is — Onus of proof — Crimes Act 1915 (No. 2637), ss. 387, 393.

Local Government — Streets formed or set out on private property — Setting out of street — Highways — Forming such by municipality — Liability of owners abutting thereon to contribute to cost — Scheme of distribution — Two sets of contributors, one on each side of street — Local Government Act 1915 (No. 2686), ss. 526, 532, 537 — What constitutes "dedication" of highways to the public.

Criminal law — Appeal — Application for leave — Fresh evidence — Alibi — Witnesses available but not called at trial — Other witnesses competent but not compellable — Special circumstances — Practice — Right of Crown to be heard on application — Crimes Act 1915 (No. 2637), ss. 593, 594 (1), 603.

Justices — Court of Petty Sessions — Order of — Enforcement — Imprisonment of fraudulent debtor — Application for — Statute of Limitations — Period of limitation — Nature of order of Court of Petty Sessions — Whether a judgment — Whether a debt by specialty or simple contract debt — Court of Record — Whether Court of Petty Sessions is — Test to be applied — Power to fine and imprison — Previous fraud summons — No order thereon — Whether a bar to subsequent application — Imprisonment of Fraudulent Debtors Act 1915 (No. 2667), s. 22 — Justices Act 1915 (No. 2675), ss. 60, 84, 88 (17), 210 — Supreme Court Act 1915 (No. 2733), ss. 55, 79 — Rules of the Supreme Court 1906 — Order XLII., rr. 22, 23.

Transfer of land — Corporation — British corporation — Power to hold land in Victoria — Trusts — Trustee — Public Trustee of England — Power to accept trusteeship relating to land in Victoria — Right to be registered as joint proprietor under Transfer of Land Act — Public Trustee Act 1906 (6 Edw. VII., c. 55) — Companies Act 1915 (No. 2631), s. 271 — Instruments Act 1915 (No. 2672), s. 206 — Conveyancing Act 1915 (No. 2633), s. 54 — Transfer of Land Act 1915 (No. 2740), ss. 18, 55, 248, 249 — Costs of summons — "Special circumstances" — Trusts Act 1915 (No. 2741), s. 14.

Licensing — Billiard table — "Keeps or maintains" — Person permitted by licensed victualler for consideration to have use for profit of table on licensed premises — Licence — Licensing Act 1915 (No. 2683), ss. 18, 223.

Habeas corpus — Ward of the Department for Neglected Children — Duty of Secretary, as guardian, to act under the instructions of the Minister — Custody of wards of the Department — Control of Court over Secretary as guardian — Neglected Children's Act 1915 (No. 2703), ss. 9, 25 — Infants' Life Protection Act 1915 (No. 2670), s. 15 (5).

Motor-car — Obstruction of street — "Unnecessary obstruction" — Waiting for passenger who has hired car — Motor-car Act 1915 (No. 2702), s. 15 — Regulation 2 (2).

Company — Alteration of objects — "Conveniently or advantageously be combined with business of the company" — Scope of alteration permissible — Modification of special resolution — Companies Act 1915 (No. 2631), s. 17 (1) (d), 4.

Trusts — Trustees — Remuneration — Trustee company — Commission, rate of — How ascertained — Flat rate — Separate rate for each trust — Future commission — Costs of application to reduce rate of commission — Liability of trustee company — Findings of fact — Jury and Judge — Duty of Court of Appeal — Rules of Supreme Court — Order XXXIX, rr. 1, 1 (b); Order LVIII., r. 1 — The Executors Company's Amendment Act 1885 (No. 842), s. 7.

Contract — Loan — Agreement, not in writing, to find lender on mortgage — Interest in land — Statute of Frauds — Uncertainty — Certain terms of contract not specified — Exoneration — Rescission, what constitutes — Estoppel — Prior judgment directing new trial — Res judicata — Instruments Act 1890 (No. 1103), s. 208 — Instruments Act 1915 (No. 2672), s. 228.

Administration and probate — Administration bond — Sureties — Dispensing with — Public Trustee of South Australia — South Australian letters of administration sealed in Victoria — Administration and Probate Act 1915 (No. 2611), ss. 19, 51.

Administration and probate — Administration — Application for — Trustee company — Authority — Next of kin — Person entitled to obtain administration — Person, to whom administration would be granted, of kin of intestate but not entitled to share in estate — Whether such person is one of "next of kin" who may authorize application — The Perpetual Executors and Trustees Association's Act (49 Vict., No. 840), s. 4; Administration and Probate Act 1915 (No. 2611), s. 7 (2).

Husband and wife — Divorce — Condonation — Intercourse between petitioner and respondent while petitioner drunk — Marriage Act 1915 (No. 2691), s. 128 — Intervention by Attorney-General.

Factories and shops — Special Boards — Employ engaged in one trade doing work for which rate fixed by Special Board in another trade — What wages to be paid — "Hot cross" buns made by pastrycook — Rate fixed for making "hot cross" buns by Bread Board — Bread, whether buns are — Duplicity — Amendment — Factories and Shops Act 1915 (No. 2650), s. 226 — Bakers and Millers Act 1915 (No. 2617), s. 3 — Justices Act 1915 (No. 2675), s. 85 (1).

Will — Trust for sale — As soon after testator's death as conveniently may be — Power to postpone sale — Tenant for life and remaindermen — Real estate — Postponement of sale — Interim rents — Enjoyment in specie — Hotel property — Federal estate duty — Apportionment — Estate Duty Assessment Act (No. 22 of 1914), s. 35.

Company — Winding-up — Voluntary liquidation in England — Compulsory liquidation in Victoria — Rights of English creditors in Victorian winding-up — Claim by English liquidator for costs, charges, and expenses of winding-up — Preferential claim — Companies Act 1915 (No. 2631), Part I., s. 212.

Practice — Writ of summons — Service — Partnership firm — Foreign partnership — Enemy firm — "Carrying on business within the jurisdiction" — Rules of the Supreme Court 1906, Orders XLVIII.A, rr. 1-3; XII., r. 30.

Transfer of land — Priority — Equitable mortgage of land — Subsequent transfer without notice — No caveat at date of transfer — Search by transferee — Unregistered interest — Agreement to withdraw transfer — Subsequent re-lodging without notice to mortgagee — Registration of transfer — Fraud — Practice of Titles Office — Caveat treated as lapsed though transfer withdrawn — Transfer of Land Act 1915 (No. 2740), ss. 179, 184, 196-200.

Will — Specific gift — Ademption — Time from which will speaks — Contrary intention — House, subject-matter of devise, sold before death, and another answering description in the will acquired — "My house and land in U.-street, Coburg" — Wills Act 1915 (No. 2749), s. 22.

Will — Specific gift — Ademption — Change in subject-matter — Interest in a business — Subsequent acquisition of business by limited company — Interest in business disposed of for shares in company.

Practice — Substituted service — Defendant alien enemy resident in enemy country — Two modes of service ordered — One ineffective, the other likely to be effective — Motion to set aside ex parte order — Fresh facts, admissibility of — Supreme Court Act 1915 (No. 2), (No. 2590), ss. 2, 3, 5; Supreme Court Act 1915 (No. 2733), ss. 141-145.

Police offences — Dog — Permitting dog to worry another animal — "Permitting," meaning of — Police Offences Act 1915 (No. 2708), s. 17 (9).

Factories and shops — Determination of Special Board — Hotel Employees' Board — "Casual work," "casual employee," "employed," meaning of — Short time work — Person employed each week for less than half maximum number of hours fixed — "Persons employed for less than one week's continuous work" — Factories and Shops Act 1909, No. 2 (No. 2241), ss. 5, 9 — Factories and Shops Act 1912 (No. 2386), s. 141 — Factories and Shops Act Amendment Act 1914 (No. 2558), s. 29 — Factories and Shops Act 1915 (No. 2650), s. 141 (1), (4).

County Court — Remission of action from Supreme Court — Action within equitable jurisdiction — Specific performance — Alternative claim for damages — Effect of — Application to remit — Delay — Step in action — Effect of — County Court Act 1915 (No. 2636), ss. 50, 124.

Divorce — Dissolution of marriage — Desertion — Just cause or excuse — Existence of in absence of matrimonial offence by petitioner — Facts personal to respondent — Whether sufficient cause or excuse — Wife refusing shortly after the birth, after marriage, of child of which husband not the father, to separate herself from her child and return to husband — Whether such refusal justified — Marriage Act 1915 (No. 2691), s. 122.

Company — No-liability company — Issue of shares at a discount — Validity of — Agreement to take shares — Amount due in respect of shares payable by instalments — Obligation to pay instalments — Distinction between such obligation and liability for calls — Companies Act 1915 (No. 2631), ss. 97, 413, 414 (6).

Will — Shares in company — Tenant for life and remainderman — Bonuses and dividends — Special distributions out of accumulated profits — "Distribution of assets" — Income or capital — Company carrying on business as tramway proprietors and otherwise — Leases of tramways — Leases about to expire — Principal objects of company ceasing to be operative — Profits accumulated before and after testator's death, but substantially after — Appeal — Costs — Beneficiaries unsuccessfully appealing — Payment out of estate.

Evidence — Member of His Majesty's Forces — How fact may be proved — Acting in capacity — Wearing of uniform — Uncontradicted evidence — Duty of magistrate to accept — Federal War Precautions Act 1914-1916, s. 6 — War Precautions Regulations 1915, reg. 12.

Criminal law — Offence against female between 16 and 18 years of age — Previous intercourse — "Male person" — Pleading — Duplicity — Time of offence — Evidence of several offences within time alleged — Limit of time for prosecution — When prosecution commenced — Crown Case reserved — Jurisdiction — No substantial miscarriage of justice — Crimes Act 1915 (No. 2637), ss. 46, 47, 477, 478, 593, 594.

Local government — Buildings — Regulation of — Breach of regulations — Evidence — Certificate of official referees — Whether conclusive — Form of certificate — Melbourne Building Act (13 Vict., No. 39), s. 13.

Will — Construction — Income — Gift to children and upon death to grandchildren — Whether vested interest in grandchildren — "If he she or they so dying should leave no child or children."

Contract — Building contract — Conditions — Common printed form — Named architect — "Architect for the time being" — Dismissal of architect by building proprietor during progress of work — Effect — Power of building proprietor to dismiss — Power of dismissed architect to give certificate — Whether dismissal of architect effective until notified to contractor — Estoppel — Finding of fact — Reversal of on appeal.

Customs — Offence — Interference with goods subject to control of Customs — Evidence — Onus of proof — Averments in information — Absence of proof to contrary — Allegations of mixed law and fact — Allegation of offence in words of Statute — Further allegations of facts showing commission of acts constituting offence — Whether statutory provision as to proof of offence operates — Customs Act 1901-1914, ss. 33, 255.

Administration and probate — Settlement containing trusts or dispositions to take effect after death — Duty — Person taking child of settlor — Half rate "if total value of whole of estate of deceased under 2000l." — "Whole estate of deceased" — Meaning of — Administration and Probate Act 1915 (No. 2611), s. 147, Tenth Schedule, Part III., Clause I. (Proviso).

Police offences — Obstructing a member of the police force in the execution of his duty — Constable making inquiries in regard to alleged offence — Right to enter private premises — Police Offences Act 1915 (No. 2708), ss. 185, 206.

Workers' compensation — Amount of compensation — How determined — Payment, allowance, or benefit received from employer — Railway employ — Pension allowance — Prospective rights — Whether to be regarded in assessing compensation — Workers' Compensation Act 1915 (No. 2750), s. 5 (1), Second Schedule, clauses (1) (b), (3).

Fences — Vermin-proof dividing fence — Liability to contribute — Condition precedent — Certificate of Chief Inspector for the Suppression of Vermin — Certificate given after service of notice to fence — Jurisdiction — Fences Act 1915 (No. 2651), ss. 7, 8, 20, 22 — Unused Roads and Water Frontages Act 1903 (No. 1894) — Local Government Act 1915 (No. 2686), Part XXXIX. — Whether licensee is an "occupier" within the Fences Act 1915.

Divorce — Husband and wife — Nullity, undefended suit for — Bigamy, respondent guilty of — Prosecution for — Whether a condition precedent to petition — Question not raised by pleadings — Marriage Act 1915 (No. 2691), s. 157.

Practice — Appeal — High Court — Appeal from Supreme Court of State — Divorce — Desertion — Undefended suit — Service of notice of appeal — Rules of High Court of Australia, 1911 — Part I., Order LV., rr. 2, 6; Part II., s. 3, rr. 1, 4 — Marriage Act 1915 (No. 2691), s. 122.

Will — Gift to trustees — Beneficial or upon trust — Memorandum — Attempted incorporation of in will by reference — Verbal trust — Whether effective — Restrictive condition in grant of probate — "German subject" — No payment without consent of Crown — Effect — Australian-born woman marrying German subject — Status — Alien — When an alien enemy — Residence in Victoria — Right to hold property — Naturalization Act 1870 (33 Vict., c. 14), s. 10 — Supreme Court Act 1915 (No. 2733), s. 58.

Licensing — Sale of liquor on licensed premises during unauthorized hours — Sale — Whether delivery on licensed premises essential — Evidence — Admissibility — Statements made in presence of accused person — Licensing Act 1915 (No. 2683), ss. 177, 238.