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LEGAL MEMORANDA

CHAPTER LXXIV

ANIMALS; BANKING; BIRTHS, registration of; DEATHS, registration of; ELECTRICITY, supply of; FENCES; FIRE; FIRE INSURANCE; GAS; HIRE PURCHASE AGREEMENTS; HOUSE AGENTS; HUSBAND, lability of, for debts contracted by wife; INCOME TAX; INFECTIOUS DISEASES; INHABITED HOUSE DUTY; JURY, persons liable to, or exempt from, service on; LANDLORD AND TENANT; LAND TAX; LICENCES; LODGERS; MARRIAGE; MARRIED WOMEN; MASTER AND SERVANT; NUISANCES; PRESCRIPTION; PURCHASE OF HOUSE, loan by Local, Authority for purpose of; RATES; SANITARY REQUIREMENTS; STAMPING OF DOCUMENTS; TRESPASS; VACCINATION; WATER RATE; WILLS.

There are certain matters of a legal nature with which most—men and women, too—must necessarily be concerned at some time or another in the ordinary course of domestic life; and it is with a view to affording some assistance in dealing with such matters that the present chapter is appended, though in the limited space available it is not possible to do more than state the general principles which are applicable. The subjects referred to in the following index will be found in one or other of the articles enumerated above.

Ancient Lights—See Prescription
Armorial Bearings—See Licences
Ashpits, Requirements as to—See Sanitary
Requirements
, pp. 1994. 1995
Assignment of PremisesLandlord and Tenant,
Effect of—See p. 1967
Covenant against—See p. 1961
Carriages—See Licences
Character of Servant—See Master and Servant,, p.1976
Cheques—See Banking
Chimney on Fire—See Fire
Cisterns—See Sanitary Requirements, pp. 1993, 1995
Cock-Crowing—See Nuisances, pp. 1984, 1987
Distress—Landlord and Tenant
and how leviable—See p. 1963
Effect of, on right to re-enter for breach of covenant—See p. 1962
Dogs—See Animals, Licences, and Nuisances, pp. 1984, 1986, 1987
Drains,
Liabillity of tenant with regard to, under covenant to pay "Assessments," etc.—See p. 1959
Implied condition as to, in letting furnished houses—See p. 1958
Requirements of local authorities with regard to—See pp. 1993, 1995
Fixtures—See Landlord and Tenant, p. 1966
Forfeiture of Lease on Breach of Covenant—See Landlord and Tenant, p. 1962
Holding Ownerof Premises by Tenant after Notice Given—See p. 1965
Lease—See Landlord and Tenant
Libel—See Character of Servant, p. 1980
Light and Air, right to—See Prescription
Male Servants—See Licences
Manure—See Nusiances, p. 1985; and Sanitary Requirements, p. 1994
Motor Car—See Licences
Noises—See Nusiances, pp. 1983, 1984, 1987
Notice to Quit—See Landlord and Tenant, p. 1965
"Not Negotiable," Effect of, when written on cheque—See Banking, p. 1936
Overhanging Trees—See Nuisances, pp. 1981, 1983
Possession of Premises, how recoverable—See Landlord and Tenant, p. 1965
Quiet Enjoyment, Covenant by landlord with regard to—See Landlord and Tenant p. 1961
Rates and Taxes, Covenants in leases with regard to—See Landlord and Tenant, p. 1959
Receipts, Creditor's obligation with regard to—See Stamping of Documents, p. 1999
Refuse, Removal of—See Sanitary Requirements, pp. 1994, 1996
Rent,—See Landlord and Tenant, pp. 1959, 1962
Repairs, Covenants in leases with regard to—See Landlord and Tenant, p. 1960
Roadway, Cost of paving, etc., liability of tenant in respect to—See Landlord and Tenant, p. 1959
Sanitary Authorities—See Infectious Diseases, Notification of, p. 1954
Slander—See Character of Servant, p. 1980
Smells—See Nusiances
Smoking of Chimney caused by building of adjoining house—See pp. 1961, 1988
Street Cries—See Nuisances, p. 1987
Street Music, within the Metropolitan Police District—See Nuisances, p. 1987
Taxes— See Income Tax, Inhabited House Duty, Land Tax, and Licences
Tithes, Payment of—See p. 1960
Liability of, to be rated—See. 1990
Under-Letting,—Effect of—See p. 1967
Covenant with regard to—See p. 1961
View, Obstruction of—See Prescription
Wages—See Master and Servant
Water Closets, Requirements with regard to—See Sanitary Requirements, pp. 1993, 1995
Water Supply, Requirements with regard to—See Sanitary Requirements, pp. 1992, 1994
Wife, Authority of, to pledge husband's credit—See Husband

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