Honolulu Republican, Volume IV, Number 506, 25 Ianuali 1902 — Some English Laws. [ARTICLE]

Some English Laws.

It you deposit money in a bask aw) leave It there for over six years without adding to it. drawing on it or dealing with :t la any way. It come* under the statute cf limitations and is Kan to you forever. Suppose you 1-ought a gold ring and without saying anything about payments or delivery you turned round to examine a dock and a magpie flew In ami carried off the ring it would be your low. You would have to pay the jeweler, while he need not give you another ring. If you bought a horse an-1 said you would call for him in the evening and If the stables were burned and the h rse destroyed before you tailed, you would have to bear the conlequence*. But if anything remained to be done to the property purchased Ihe seller would be responsible. Suppose be undertook to put a nail in the aorse's shoe or suppose the jeweler said he would polish up the ring, then ihe loss would fall on him. not yon. If you wrote from London to a miller In Bristol offering to sell him a cargo of wheat at 30 shillings a quarter and he wrote a letter accepting your offer and posted it the same day, the contract would be complete?!. Suppose, now. the letter got lost, you concluded that he was not going to buy and yon sold the cargo to some one else, you would be liable for damages to the first buyer, and the worst of it is you could get nothing out of the postmaster general.—London Answers.