Contract — Discharge — Commercial frustration — Hiring of goods and chattels — Neon signs attached to the freehold — Whether fixtures — Jurisdiction of Court of Petty Sessions — Claim for use and hire of chattels — National Security — Lighting restriction orders — Whether contract terminated or frustrated.

Company — Winding up — Resolution of directors to present petition — Managing powers of directors — Whether petition properly presented.

Money lender — Lending money at excessive rate of interest — Loan made not at excessive rate of interest — Repayment before due date — Money lender receiving interest in excess of permitted rate — Whether offence — Money Lenders Act 1941 (No. 4872), sec. 4 — Money Lenders Act 1938 (No. 4625), sec. 29 (3).

Divorce — Evidence — Whether witness liable to be asked questions as to his adultery — Warning to witness — Affidavit by witness verifying answer — Denial of adultery in — Evidence in disproof of adultery — Marriage Act 1928 (No. 3726), sec. 119.

Will — Tenant for life and remainderman — Construction of air raid shelter — Expenses pending conversion of estate — By whom borne.

Justices — Offence punishable on summary conviction — Aiding and abetting — Penalty — Second offence — Police Offences Act 1928 (No. 3749), sec. 104 — Justices Act 1928 (No. 3708), sec. 74.

Will — Trust to pay income to life tenants — Income expended in payment of testator's debts, including mortgage debts — Lapse of time — Right of estates of life tenants to repayment — Right to interest — Gift for maintenance and support — Nature of gift.

Local government — Taking lands compulsorily for work or undertaking — Order for execution of work — Variation of order by Minister — Local Government Act 1928 (No. 3720), secs. 509-514.

Administration and probate — Abatement of assets — Specific devises and bequests becoming liable for payment of debts — Bequest of shares charged with payment of annuity — Valuation of bequest for purposes of abatement — Whether annuity charged on specifically bequeathed shares liable to abate with specific devises and bequests — Administration and Probate Act 1928 (No. 3632), Second Schedule.

Licensing — Supplying liquor with meals on Sundays — Meal permit — Whether offence committed — Licensing Act 1928 (No. 3717), secs. 43, 178.

Criminal law — Presentment — Accused arraigned on two presentments — Presentments tried together — Proceedings a nullity.

Licensing — Company as licensee — Permitting drunken persons to be on premises — Knowledge of barman not in charge of bar — Whether attributable to licensee — Admissibility of convictions for drunkenness — Licensing Act 1928 (No. 3717), sec. 204.

Police Offences — Betting — Information as to betting on intended race — Doubles chart giving information as to betting on combination of two races — Police Offences Act 1928 (No. 3749), sec. 121 (b) (ii).

Landlord and tenant — National security — Recovery of possession of premises — Proceedings by landlord against sub-tenant holding over after determination of head tenancy — Jurisdiction of justices — Whether ousted by National Security (Landlord and Tenant) Regulations — Reasonable cause why possession should not be given — Landlord and Tenant Act 1928 (No. 3710), Part V.

Licensing — Disposal of liquor — Lodger entertaining guests in her own room — Handing liquor to guests for immediate consumption — Whether a disposal of liquor on licensed premises — Whether licensee guilty of an offence — Licensing Act 1928 (No. 3717), sec. 177.

Executors — Commission on passing accounts — Quantum — Allowance by Chief Clerk to executors for legal and accountancy work not otherwise charged for by them — Review by Court — Allowance refused.

Will — Charity — Bequest to persons rendering in any year "the greatest benefit to humanity" — Validity.

County Court — Practice — Remission to County Court — Whether order should be made — Delay — County Court Act 1928 (No. 3663), sec. 58.

Criminal Law — Murder — Abortion — Use of instrument on woman to remove dead foetus — Whether a felony — Use occasioning death — Whether murder or manslaughter — Direction to jury — Crimes Act 1928 (No. 3664), sec. 62.

Will — Construction — Indefinite gift of income — Gift over in event of re-marriage — Whether beneficiary absolutely entitled, subject only to divesting of gift in event of re-marriage.

National security — Landlord and tenant — Ejectment of tenant — Tenant member of Volunteer Defence Corps — Whether tenant a member of the forces "engaged on war service" — National Security Act 1939-1940 (No. 15 of 1939 — No. 44 of 1940) — National Security (War Service Moratorium) Regulations, cll. 5, 29.

Licensing — Sunday trading — Liquor drunk on premises of members' club — Without sanction of secretary — Whether secretary guilty of offence — Licensing Act 1928 (No. 3717), secs. 178, 250.

Factories and shops — Wages board — Proceedings at meeting — Disagreement of members — Power of chairman to decide questions — When exercisable — Meaning of "questions" — Factories and Shops Act 1928 (No. 3677), sec. 155 — Factories and Shops Act 1941 (No. 4874), sec. 12.

Will — Bequest of furniture and personal belongings — Contents of furnished flat let to tenants — Motor car — Radio sets — Electric refrigerator — Fireproof safe — Plants and gardening implements — Whether included in bequest.

Company — Defunct company — Moneys from sale of assets of — Payment into Court by Registrar-General — For whom held on trust — Claim by creditor — Practice — Trustee Act 1928 (No. 3792), sec. 63 — Companies Act 1938 (No. 4602), sec. 298.

Criminal law — Public mischief — False story told by accused to shield himself from consequences of his wrongful conduct — Time of police wasted — Common law offence of doing act tending to the public mischief not committed.

Divorce — Desertion — Deserter's offer to return — Offer not bon fide — Deserted spouse's refusal to have deserter back — Whether desertion terminated.

Maintenance — Confinement expenses — Complaint for — Time for making — Jurisdiction — Maintenance Act 1928 (No. 3722), sec. 27.

Justices — Jurisdiction — Information for offence committed within ten miles of adjoining bailiwick — Made returnable in Court of adjoining bailiwick by justice for bailiwick in which offence committed — Validity — Jurisdiction to hear and determine — Justices Act 1928 (No. 3708), secs. 29, 32, 86, 211.

Contract — Consideration — Restraint of trade.

Negligence — Road accident — Overturning of motor truck — Whether sufficient evidence of want of care.

County Court — Practice — Non-suit — Power to grant — County Court Act 1928 (No. 3663), sec. 73.

Landlord and tenant — Tenancy "for the duration of the war or a date to be fixed at the will of the lessor" — Void for uncertainty — Entry into possession and payment of weekly rental by tenant for ten months — Whether tenancy from year to year — Notice to quit — Sufficiency.

Conflict of laws — Company — Incorporated in foreign country — Right to sue — Whether foreign country under de facto control of invader and company dissolved by de facto government — Existence of de facto government — Method of proof — Judicial notice.

Workers' Compensation — Agreement for settlement of all claims by payment of lump sum — Agreement for redemption of weekly payments — Workers Compensation Board refusing to accept agreement — Power of Board to award lump sum or make declaratory award — Workers' Compensation Act 1928 (No. 3806), sec. 7, Second Schedule, pars. (15), (16) — Workers' Compensation Act 1937 (No. 4524), secs. 4, 10.