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RULES OF WAR AT SEA.
increaas of rent is on mocount of expenditure on improvements of |structural alterations particulare
must be given, and the same with -AMERICAN--AMBASSADOR- regard to increase on account of
ON THE LEASUE
3. Elsewhere The Act, if passed, is to con-116 per cent. tinue in force for three years.
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The provision of the Increase
At the conference of the Inter MORTGAGE INTEREST. of Rebt and Mortgage Interest
national Law Association held at [Restrictions) Bill, introduced by Increased rats of interest an Portsmouth recently, Major Dr. Addison and designed to mortgags may excoed the standard] David Davica, M.P., in a paper on regulate house rents, general rate by 1 per cent, provided that a disarmament, declared that ir- tenancies, and furnished lettings, rate shall not be increased to mediate general disarmament are summarised below,
above 616 per cent. and that ex-I would not abolish war but would The bill is to apply to housse cept in the ease of a dweling- merely change the weapons. Ho where the annust standard rent bonse to which the Act „pplice | anggested that war's---DOWNSI or rateablə valne does not exceed: but to which tha anaciments weapons-poison gas, war-planes,
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repealed by it did not apply, the heavy artillery, and tanks should ***... £105
£90 increase during one year after the be ceded to the League to form
passing of the Act shall not exceed headquarters force, and that no State: abould be allowed to own (02 make use of any new invantion RECOVERY OF POBSESSION.for warlike purposes. The bill does not, accept as
A resolution was carried ad- specially provided in the clauso The grounds upon which orders relating to furnished lettings, for the recovery of possession vocating the examination of the [project of international police pply to a dwelling-house boua-may be made (clause 5) are —
forces by the L agus of Nations. fde let at a rent which includes (a) Non-payment of rant.
Mr. Justice Loder, Jadge of the payments for board, attendance, (b) That the tenant for any or the use of furniture but it is person residing with him has Hague Court of Appeal, contri- huted a paper on a permanent shall not be excluded from houses nuisance or annoyance to adjoin Court of InternationalJustice, and because part of the premises is ing occupiers, or that the condi-wails: admitting inequality in the used as a shop or office, or for tion of the bouse has deteriorated position and influence of various business, trade, or professional owing to neglect, default, or acts States, said that no inequality could be tolerated in the matter purposes."
(Cheers.) It is provided by clause I that: (el That the tenant has given of law and justice. where the increased rent or notice to quit and in consequence Members of the Court must be increased rate of interest on the landlord has contracted to judges with wide knowledge, and the amount permitted under the steps by which he would be most be independent, belong to no bill, the standard rent or standard seriously prejudiced if he could country, and represent no nation. The President (Lord Reading)! rate of interest the excess shall not obtain possession:
Justice Loder had [be irrecoveable from the tenant ori (d) That the house is reasonably said Mr.
touched OR 9 most difficul: the mortgagor.
required by the landlord for a residence for himself, or for some question, for the proposed judges person in his employ for in the should not only be independent employment of one of his tenants), and impartial, but must eliminate and, except as otherwise provided, to kind of bias which was most that the Court is satisfied that difficult to eliminate, and which (a) Where the landlord has, alternative accommodation, reas rooted in love of one's own since August 4, 1914, incurred, or asonably equivalent as regards country. hereafter incurs, expenditure on rent and suitability in all respects, the improvement ar structural is available and the Court con- alteration of the dwelling-house siders it reasonable to make such (not including expenditure on an order or give judgment. decoration or repairs), an amount i The condition of alternation not exceeding & per cent or in the case of such expenditure in curred after the passing of this Acs, not exceeding 8 per cent. of the amount so expended.
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AMERICA NOT UNWILLING, Ts afternoon Conference dis- cussed the laws of war at 893. The American Ambassador, who accommodation is not to apply presided, said America had a deep in cases where a landlord gave and abiding interest up occupation in consequance of growth, enthronement, and su• service in the forces during the premacy of international law, and war. Clause deals with fore she therefore looked forward with (b) An amount not exceeding closure of mortgages, or sale, or hopeful eagerness to an end of aby increase in the amount for "for otherwise enforcing security anarchy in international no less the time being payable by the or for recovering the principal than in domestic affair, and desir landlord in respect of rates over money" secured by the mortgage.ed above all thing to see the pre- the corresponding account paid in respect of the yearly, half- yearly, or other period which in- cloded August 1914
cepts of the law ofnations reduced RESTRICTION OF PREMIUMS:
to a definite and binding form. Clause eight provides for the "Differences of opinion," con abolition of the payment of any sinued the Ambassador, which (c) "In addition to any such ja .e. premium, or other like sum unhappily divide the people of my amounts as afor, said, an amount or the giving of any consider country at this moment with re equal to 15 per cent. of the netation in addition to the rent as aference to the form and coatent sent, provided that (except in the condition of renewal de contio of the Covenant of the League case of a dwelling-house to which wance of a tenance or sub-ten-must not be taken as evidence of this Act applies, but to which ancy, and section two of this say onwillingness. on their part the enzetments repealed by this clause makes a contravention of to join the free peoples of the Act dri not apply) the amount this provision an ofence liable toworld in establishing just rules of such addition shall not, during a fine not exceeding £100. This, for intemational conduct, found ja period of one year after the however, shall not apply to the on reason. and sanctioned
passing of this Act, exceed 5 per grant, renowal, or continuance by for a term of seven years or up-jof (di In forther addition (1) wards any tenancy. her the dwelling-house is one
cent.
to which section 14 of the Hous
FURNISHED HOUSES.
the .COMMON approval mankind. Whether the road be long or arduous, the day must and will come when the nations of the world will submit
iaz. Town Planning, &c. Act, By clause 9, where any person themselves to definite rules of 1909. applies. or where in any lets, or has les before the passing conduct whose violation will other case the tenant is not un-of the Act, any dwelling-house or receive the united condemnation der any express liability for re-part thereof at rent which lof mankind.”
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pairs, an amount equal to 25 per includes payment for the use of With regard to the laws of war rent, of the net rent, or 2 where | fumiture, and it is proved on the at sea, he said no one who recalled the tenant is under an express application of the lessee that the the happenings of the war could lability for part and not the rent is yielding or will yield to doubt the necessity for some whole of the repairs, such lesser the lessor & proût more than 25 common understanling on that amount as may be agreed, or as pr cent, in excess of the normal subject. Of all the accumulated may on the application of the profit, the county court may horrors of the recent war which landlord be determined by the oder that the excess rent be would linger longest in the minds County conrt s be fair and irrecoverable and may order re-jof men, and would leave the mos: reasonable.
parment of any such excess indelible staic opon its author which may have been paid.
name. was Ibe unrestricted STATE OF REPAIR.
"Normal prófit" described to submarine warfare, and the sink. At any time after the date of mean the profit which might|ing without succour of helpless the increase (the bill proposes) reasonably have been expected men, harmless. women, and in- be tenant may apply to the from a similar letting on August nocent children. It violated not CoDuty court for an order 3, 1914. A lessor under this only all the recognised canons of suspending the increase under (d) section, proved to be charging a nations, but the immemorial rule on the ground that the house is reat which yields ad extor-jof the sea itself. This law, neither not in a reasonable state of repair.¦tionate" profit, shall be liable to changes in the mode of warfare, The court would be empowered a fine not exceeding £100.
to suspend the increse (on con- dition that the state of the house
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WRITTEN STATEMENTS.
the march of invention, nor weakness of attacking craft coul){ alter unless civilisation in truth be not due to the tenant's neglect. Classe 11 states: A landlord had reached its apogee, and aj default, or breach of agreement) of say dwelling house to which return to primeval savagery had until satisfied on report of the this Act applies shall, on being so begun. (Cheers.) necessary repairs have been requested by the tensot, supply The report of the British executed.
him with a statement in writing | Maritime Law Committee was Any transfer to a tenant of any as to what is the standard rent of presented by Sir John Macdowell, burden or liability previously the boose, and if without resson-i's chairman, who said it was borne by the landlord shall be ahle excuse he fails within 14 better to have a sea law which treated as alteration of rent, and days to do so or supplies a state-corresponded with modern war- where as the result of transfer the ment which is false in any fare than rules which had become terms are on the whole less favour-material particular, he shall be a dead letter: The Committes able to the tenant the rent shall liable to fins' not exceeding suggested a fiber of changes, be deemed to be increased irre-£10.
inching the phibition of un- spective of whether the actual "Standard rent" means the refried substine warfarp rout is increased. Provision is rent at which the house was let against private vessels; the secur- made for cases where, as the on August 3, 1914; or where it ing of contact mines, and precant- result of transfer, the terms are was not let on that date, the rent ions to be taken for the safety of more favourable to the tenant. at which it was last let before peaceful navigation; and that Tenants shall be entitled to deduct that date; or, where it was first where an enemy or neutral mesi the sanitary authority's cer- let after August 3, at the rent at chant vessel was illegally destroy Tificate fee from the sub-which it was first-let sequent payment of rent. Fur the purposes of this sectiod rates" includes water rents and charges, and any increase in rates payable by the landlord shall b deemed payable by him until the *ate is next demanded.
ed the vicer rumponsible shuuk be regarded as a war criminal and liable to punishment if captured. The Committee were divided BCHOOL WAR MEMORIAL
on the question of the expediency Upwards of 1,200 Old Boys of of prohibiting the seming of mer- the Westminster City School phantmen. I was pointed out. served in the Great War. : Of that other representatives of the these more than 150 are known to Association other than British have lost their lives, and it has should have an opportunity of Four weeks' notice of subeen decided to provides memor-considering the questions raised, increase in rent and one week of fal library in the school, together and the report was referred back an increase in rates are provided with a suitable and conspicuous) to an enlarged committee, where for in clause 3, and where the record of the names.
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