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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume II, Issue 200, 25 September 1888, Page 3

The proverbial coach and four has been driven through the English Bills of Sale Acts which are supposed to be especially strict. The modus operand! is for the mortgagee to buy the mortgagor's furniture and then hire it back again at so much per month. If the mortgagor pays the whole of the instalments the furniture is his, otherwise [it is forfeited. So long as the sale ia not in writing and ne receipt is given there is not a billot sale which requires registration, which of course ia the principal objection to those documents. It is difficult for the non-legal mind to comprehend the subtle distinction. A Geelong paper tells a story of a sharp bit of practice. Nearly |0 years ago there waa an unoccupied house in one of the principal thoroughfares in Geelong, and as no one seemed to lay claim to the tenement, a female resident of the neighborhood asserted her claim, inhabited the place, and, to speak plainly, "jumped ” it. Ever since that time she has remained in undisturbed possession. In the covree of events this female." jumper" took in ». lodger. A few weeks ago the enterprising landlady (ought rest from her everyday troubles Gy going down to a favorite seaside resort, but judge to her dismay on returning to be refused admission into the house by the trucdulent lodger, who, maintaining that" possession is 9 points of the law, "asserted her right, and refused to allow the woman under the rbof which had sheltered her for nearly IQ ypars. Add that ia foow things stand at present; and as neither of them has the least right to the tenement, the one who now holds possession has certainly * trifle the best of the deal.