AUSTRALASIAN

ANNUAL DIGEST

BEING A DIGEST OF CASES DECIDED BY THE HIGH COURT
OF AUSTRALIA AND THE SUPREME COURTS OF NEW
SOUTH WALES, NEW ZEALAND, QUEENSLAND, SOUTH
AUSTRALIA, TASMANIA, VICTORIA AND WEST AUS-
TRALIA, AND BY THE PRIVY COUNCIL ON APPEAL
THEREFROM, AND CASES REPORTED IN THE
JUSTICE OF THE PEACE (QUEENSLAND), THE
INDUSTRIAL ARBITRATION REPORTS (N.S.W.,
AND COMMONWEALTH), LAND COURT
CASES

REPORTS, THE LOCAL GOVERN-
MENT REPORTS, (NEW SOUTH WALES),
MAGISTRATES' COURTS CASES

AND

(NEW ZEALAND),

AND REPORTED DURING THE YEAR

1918.

WITH

TABLE OF CASES FOLLOWED, OVERRULED &c.

EDITED BY

C. E. WEIGALL,

(BARRISTER-AT-LAW)

STANFORD

THE LAW BOOK COMPANY OF AUSTRALASIA, LIMITED,
51-53 ELIZABETH STREET, SYDNEY.

MDCCCCXIX.

PREFACE.

use the

The Publishers desire to thank the proprietors of the undermentioned reports for their courteous permission to headnotes of the cases digested :

THE ARGUS LAW REPORTS.

THE AUSTRALIAN LAW TIMES.

THE COMMONWEALTH ARBITRATION REPORTS.
THE COMMONWEALTH LAW REPORTS.
THE LAND APPEAL COURT CASES (N.S.W.).
THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT REPORTS (N.S.W.).
THE NEW SOUTH WALES STATE REPORTS.
THE NEW SOUTH WALES WEEKLY NOTES.
THE NEW SOUTH WALES INDUSTRIAL
ARBITRATION REPORTS.

THE NEW ZEALAND LAW REPORTS.

THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE LAW REPORTS.·
THE NEW ZEALAND MAGISTRATES' COURTS
REPORTS.

THE QUEENSLAND JUSTICE OF THE PEACE
REPORTS.

THE STATE REPORTS (Queensland).

THE SOUTH AUSTRALIAN LAW REPORTS.

THE TASMANIAN LAW REPORTS.

THE VICTORIAN LAW REPORTS.

THE WEST AUSTRALIAN LAW REPORTS

ABBREVIATIONS.

A.C.

A.L.R.

A.R.

English Law Reports Appeal Cases.

Argus Law Reports (Victoria).

Industrial Arbitration Reports (New South

Wales).

Australian Law Times (Victoria).

Commonwealth Arbitration Reports.

Commonwealth Law Reports (High Court).

Gazette Law Reports (New Zealand).

Land Court Cases (New South Wales).

Local Government Reports (New South Wales.)
Magistrates' Courts Reports (New Zealand).
New Zealand Law Reports.

Queensland Justice of the Peace Reports.

Queensland Weekly Notes

South Australian Law Reports.

State Reports (New South Wales).

State Reports (Queensland)

Tasmanian Law Reports

Victorian Law Reports.

West Australian Law Reports.

Weekly Notes (New South Wales).