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A LAND OWNERSHIP

TITLE.

Interesting Point in Chinese Law.

His Honour Judge Lobingier of the United States Court al Shanghai has delivered an interesting judgment in an action over the possession of a piece of land brought by the Doong Nyi Benevolent Association against the heirs of Heary S. Grew, who were not represented. Mr. Rodger appeared for plaintiffs. In giving judgment his Honour said:

MONDAY, MARCH 21, 1921.

JOE BECKETT SUED BY EX-MANAGER.

Sporting Settlement of

Money Dispute.

In a sporting spirit a friendly settlement Was reached lasi mouth in the Chancery Division of the action brought against Joe Beckett, the boxer, by his former manager, Bernard Mortimer.

Under an

FUTURA OF MOTOR

TRADE.

Lord Weir's Advice To Manufacturers.

Lord Weir was the principal speaker at the dinner in Glasgow n connection with the Scottish Motor Show, over which Mr. Fhomas Shaw presided..

In proposing the toast of "The agreement dated Scottish Motor Trade Associa January 14. 1914. Mr. Mortimer tion," Lord Weir said he did not claimed £3,904 odd. His counsel, think the motor trade har yot Mr. Clausen, K.C., said that when succeeded in making this in- Beckett was an unknown boxer dustrial and engineering country | the plaintiff undertook his train a really great automobile pro- This is an action to quiot title ing, and the control of his producing country. They had not to a tract of land situated in the fessional lite generally, ou the secured their rightful share of International Fettlement of footing that when he became a the world's market, nor were they Shanghat known as Cadastral successful pugilist and able to substantially improving their lot No. 204. Plaintiff's chairman command large purses, half of position. testifies that plaintiff has been them should go to Mr. Mortimer in possession thereof over 50 for seven years. years without meeting adverse claims, exhibita a deed dated

1868 and a series of tax receipts the earliest of which (Ex. S) is

for 1891.

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VAPOLINE INHALANT

During the

past twolve months the British public paid for imported motor cars, parte, TWO FIGHTS IN DISPUTE, His lordship, said counsel for And Industrial vehicles, includ- about £23,000,000, the plaintiff at the outset, would duty have to decide what were the which was larger than the time of such very important exact rights in regard to purses, aggregate exports in the same

the time the and whether, at

British industries as agricultural was entered into, agreement Beckett appreciated the meaning machinery, electrical machinery, boilers, and boilerhouse plant, machine tools, steam engines, and railway plant. locomotives, textile machinery.

of it.

It appears, however, that on March 19, 1862, the lot in question was registered at the American Consulate in Shanghai in the name of Henry 8. Grew and it is

While Beckett was winning to extinguish his claim and those of his heirs and successors that small purses Mr. Mortimer, with

AMERICAN INVASION, this action is principally brought, great liberality, did not insist on If this land were located within taking half of them, and let him

The United States alone export- the United States and the plaintiff keep them all. The first big had occupied it for the time and fight at which the plaintiff took a ed to British Colonies and Do- under the circumstances disclosed share of the parse was that with minions over 34,000 motor oars, Goddard early in 1919, when he presumably about £10,000,000 in the evidence bere produced, a

worth. took 25 per cent. would undoubtedly be

In the latter part of the same There thus appeared to be a

market

of about having acquired title by adverse rear there were the fights with potential

McGoorty and Carpentier. The £35,000,000 of engineering pro- possession or, as it is termed in first Beckett won, and the purse duct available to our enterprise, the civil law, prescription. The time required varies in different Was £1,700. Deducting the first and capable of giving employ. jurisdictions but in none of them £25, the half-share was £837 10s.ment to our people.

The British motor car makers Mr. Mortimer also arranged is it as long as plaintiff shows its

developing possession to have been and under the fight with Carpentier and the were doing enough designing,

latest congressional en-purse which Beckett obtained was planning, and actment on the subject it cannot £3,000, the plaintiff's share being motors to suffice for the pro- exceed 22 years even as against £1 487. Not a penny of the money ductive facilities of the whole world. They were doing far too thase under disability.

much engineering and too little standardisation of production.

Our drawing offices, planning

the

had he received.

QUESTION OF MOTIVE. During the whole time of the agreement, Mr. Mortimor had

of

But the land is located in China and most writers ou international: law hold that prescription, as one of the incidents of land tenure, is seen to the training of Beckett, departments, and tool rooms wer› governed by the lax rei sitae. and had incurred considerable out of balance. with the operative This follows" observes. Bar, expense to bring him up to the end of production. Overlapping

for engineering "not, as the popular belief gen-level which he had hoped he and duplication of expensive developing enormous. This erally goes, as a merely dialectical would attain.

or merely logical necessity spring- "Plaintiff is a Southampton changes were

ing from our conception of the man," said counsel, "and bis one resulted in excessive costs, and law of things or of territorial great ambition was that South it impaired the enterprise and sovereignty, but

瘟 89 real ampton should produce the confidence of capital.

Customers in the world market, necessity, resting upon the in-Champion of England. One of

truo

A

yours.

Notwithstanding, they would require motor cars because they could not afford to do without them, but they demanded utility motor care on a big scale.

convenience of any other the great attractions to him was and in our own domestic markets, fellow wore daily becoming poorer, and was that Beckett doctrine."

Now the lex rei sitae, in this townsman, and he.succeeded in would remain so for a good many case, is the law of China. It is producing from Southampton a

that the jurisdiction of champion," American courts in China must he Mr. Maugham; His motive, short, was purely phil exercised "in conformity with the in laws of the United States." But authropic. so the civil jurisdiction of British Mr. Clausen: I don't think I courts here is exercised "in con-am departing from propriety if I formity with English law" and say that his motives were not said courts nevertheless apply the entirely those of pounds, shillings local law to land and its incidents and pence.

A CONSULTATION,

FUTURE PROSPERITY. Labour conditione might be an impediment to the production of utility cars at a relatively low cost but frankness and sincerity in these difficulties would over- come a great many of them.

Tue real difficulty was that of

including prescription, because, His Lordship: We will assume as was declared by Lord Talbot that his motives were mixed. before the middle of the eighteenth century, "the law of nations was Counsel concluded by saying desigu. The obstacle to the part of the law of England." It that Mr. Mortimer was the last British utility car lay in the lack is equally a part of the laws of

man in the world to demand his of a design which would enable the United States" and we are pound of flesh, and would con-

production possibilities to be prepared, accordingly, to apply sider any reasonable proposition, realised. (Hear, hear.) the Chinese law of prescription Plaintiff gave evidence as to It was a case of technical ex- But here we encounter a new signed, incidentally remarkingperience, and they could do it if

to this case.

difficulty for our researches dis- lose that there is no such law. The highest Chinese tribunal has declared:--

how the agreement came to be

Mr.

they concentrated on it. (Ap- that at that time Beckett could

plause.) He suggested a policy not read.

of greater consolidation as of At this point there was a con- vital importance to the Industry. sultation between the parties, He founded his belief in the A Mandate dated the 10th with the result stated above.

future prosperity of the industry day of March in the first year of

Maugham said that on the general characteristics of the Republic declares that ap- Beckett admitted considerable the people, which had never plication of the former law suns

had been paid by Mr failed to assert themselves more means application of that portion Mortimer on his behalf and he strongly than when things were which continues to he in had always been willing to repay blackest. (Applause.)

footing force. Now since the provision them. On that

the ontained in the Tsing Code parties had come to a friendly to the effect that claim for settlement. further payment or redemption is All proceedings would be stay-3 barred after 30 years was repealed, there would be no order as to ed when the Code, was revised, it costs, and the sum paid was to cannot be applied.

be in complete satisfaction of all "Our existing law has no questions in dispute between the provision as regards prescription, parties. What is provided in the Draft

Civil Code r-lating to acquisitive

prescription as regards ownership'

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RIFLE BRIGADE MEMORIAL. and to extinctive prescription as awarded against defendants. The

A Memorial Hall, to contain a regards the restoration of the leading one, as we have seen, had right of succession is inapplio the land registered in his name shrine, is to be erected at Win- in 1862. But on December 12 of chester in weicory of 11,600 ablo.

he signed a paper officers and men of the Rifle "The Civil Cide has not yet that year been promulgated, and, in the (Ex. A2) declaring the property Brigade who fall in the war.

FAMINE FUNDS, absence of express provisions, itto "belong entirely to Chuping" is not for the court to say what and transferring to the latter any! kinds of rights should be subject tittle possessed by the former. to prescription in regard to thoir This, coupled with the long tary of the Hankow International acquisition and extinotion and period during which none of the Famine Relief Committee from bas asserted any the secretary of the Peking Com- when the proscriptive period defendants bagine to run and when claim to the lot seems conclusive-mittee: "Nanking contributions completed." A few drops of this wonderful Essence sprinkled on the

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those pro- vaid cadastral lot 204 (numbered Hankow organization. contact with the air it develops & gives off antiseptic Vapours and that, since which gradually gain in strength, hence it is very economical in visions of the proposed Civil Code 114 in the land registry American nearly $700,000 now.” we. One application giving protection for a whole day. which are intended to replace it Consulate General at Shanghai) have not come into force, there and no ground for objecting to is now a legal histum,

the registration thereof by to recent articles in The Times some Portuguess, speak of true Portuguese. The articles plaintiff in the name of a trustee on the Portuguese Riviera, says Portugal (the newspaper farther published in The Times have an

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