CO129-180 - Public Offices & Others - 1877 — Page 82

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comideration and conseguent

a good deal of departmental

L

but that in

commpendem has nostin regbited

Jague

a1

yous the

the forposals. RM 23 2

Mr. Mease.

atores.

In the draft to the Treasury 14.365 Straits, Lord Camarion has said that he will obtain a competent

legal opinion as to the meaning of "the words doller of quivalent value in the Hongkong Order in Council Zivs Brasston.

Mr

20/2/77.

Please comider this.

& Mr Malerkuns

nur sufficient diffon

до

the Law Offices

The question

Am 2/3

you

are

we mus

is Whether a dollar containing a trifle

More silen Than the Merginam iz as 4204416, can be made a legal trenden under the word in the Balm in Council

" attige silver dollar of equivalent value" : The Leasing wishing to read these wood as "of equal value

I think the well kunne legal maxim applies of "Omne majus continet in de Miques" upar Shicle M. Kroom (Legal Maxims p.174) cityp Love (othe Lay, : If a man tinder man pay, it is good": which is all we want, but I ferende

Stan Le

aught t

= and the other Granty ought tacept do much of the sum tindered as is due to hime" ; which

in this case reduces the Treasing contention to an absurdity.

I fenten

و

no doubt that (.D. is right.

I entirely

715-6/3

apper with teel Bransta

do cast think it in corollerd bichs

Consult Lon

the point,

Wall

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am 7/3

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