Act. 34 Vict. c. 19............ 34 & 35 Vict. c. 32...... 34 & 35 Vict. c. 80...... 36 & 37 Vict. c. 66...... 36 & 37 Vict. c. 67...... 37 & 38 Vict. c. 33...... 37 & 38 Vict. c. 78...... 39 & 40 Vict. c. 30...... So much of sect. 5 as provides that no puisne X 99 93 THE STUDENT'S STATUTES FOR 1878 THE BILLS OF EXCHANGE ACT, 1878. 41 Vict. c. 13. (16th April, 1878.) 1. AN acceptance of a bill of exchange is not and shall not be deemed to be insufficient under the provisions of the Mercantile Law Amendment Act, 1856 (19 & 20 Vict. c. 97), by reason only that such acceptance consists merely of the signature of the drawee written on such bill. 2. Nothing in this Act shall affect the validity or invalidity of any verdict or judgment recovered or given before the passing of this Act. THE MATRIMONIAL CAUSES ACT, 1878. 41 Vict. c. 19. (27th May, 1878.) vention. 2. Where the Queen's Proctor or any other person shall Costs of interintervene or show cause against a decree nisi in any suit or proceeding for divorce or for nullity of marriage, the Court may make such order as to the costs of the Queen's Proctor, or of any other person who shall intervene or show cause as aforesaid, or of all and every party or parties thereto, occasioned by such Extension of 23 Vict. c. 61. intervention or showing cause as aforesaid, as may seem just; and the Queen's Proctor, any other person as aforesaid, and such party or parties shall be entitled to recover such costs in like manner as in other cases: Provided that the Treasury may, if it shall think fit, order any costs which the Queen's Proctor shall, by any order of the Court made under this section, pay to the said party or parties, to be deemed to be part of the expenses of his office. 3. The Court may exercise the powers vested in it by the sect. 5 of 22 & provisions of section five of the Act of the twenty-second and twenty-third years of Victoria, chapter sixty-one, notwithstanding that there are no children of the marriage. Order by ma- 4. If a husband shall be convicted summarily or otherwise of gistrate where husband conan aggravated assault within the meaning of the statute twentyvicted of fourth and twenty-fifth Victoria, chapter one hundred, section aggravated forty-three, upon his wife, the Court or magistrate before whom assault. he shall be so convicted may, if satisfied that the future safety of the wife is in peril, order that the wife shall be no longer bound to cohabit with her husband; and such order shall have the force and effect in all respects of a decree of judicial separation on the ground of cruelty; and such order may further provide : (1.) That the husband shall pay to his wife such weekly sum as the Court or magistrate may consider to be in accordance with his means, and with any means which the wife may have for her support, and the payment of any sum of money so ordered shall be enforceable and enforced against the husband in the same manner as the payment of money is enforced under an order of affiliation; and the Court or magistrate by whom any such order for payment of money shall be made shall have power from time to time to vary the same on the application of either the husband or the wife, upon proof that the means of the husband or wife have been altered in amount since the original order or any subsequent order varying it shall have been made; (2.) That the legal custody of any children of the marriage under the age of ten years shall, in the discretion of Provided always, that no order for payment of money by the husband, or for the custody of children by the wife, shall be made in favour of a wife who shall be proved to have committed adultery, unless such adultery has been condoned; and that any order for payment of money or for the custody of children may be discharged by the Court or magistrate by whom such order was made upon proof that the wife has since the making thereof been guilty of adultery; and provided also, that all orders made under this section shall be subject to appeal to the Probate, Divorce, and Admiralty Division of the High Court of Justice. THE BILLS OF SALE ACT, 1878. 41 & 42 Vict. c. 31. (22nd July, 1878.) ment. Act. 2. This Act shall come into operation on the first day of CommenceJanuary, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-nine, which day is in this Act referred to as the commencement of this Act. 3. This Act shall apply to every bill of sale executed on or Application of after the first day of January one thousand eight hundred and seventy-nine (whether the same be absolute, or subject or not subject to any trust) whereby the holder or grantee has power, either with or without notice, and either immediately or at any future time, to seize or take possession of any personal chattels comprised in or made subject to such bill of sale. 4. In this Act the following words and expressions shall have Interpretation the meanings in this section assigned to them respectively, unless of terms. there be something in the subject or context repugnant to such construction; (that is to say,) The expression "bill of sale" shall include bills of sale, other assurances of personal chattels, and also powers of attorney, authorities, or licenses to take possession of personal chattels as security for any debt, and also any agreement, whether intended or not to be followed by the execution of any other instrument, by which a right in equity to any personal chattels, or to any charge or security thereon, shall be conferred, but shall not include the following documents; that is to say, assignments for the benefit of the creditors of the person making or giving the same, marriage settlements, transfers or assignments of any ship or vessel or any share thereof, transfers of goods in the ordinary course of business of any trade or calling, bills of sale of goods in foreign parts or at sea, bills of lading, India warrants, warehouse-keepers' certificates, warrants or orders for the delivery of goods, or any other documents used in the ordinary course of business as proof of the possession or control of goods, or authorising or purporting to authorise, either by indorsement or by delivery, the possessor of such document to transfer or receive goods thereby represented: The expression "personal chattels" shall mean goods, furniture, and other articles capable of complete transfer by delivery, and (when separately assigned or charged) fixtures and growing crops, but shall not include chattel interests in real estate, nor fixtures (except trade machinery as hereinafter defined), when assigned together with a freehold or leasehold interest in any land or building to which they are affixed, nor growing crops when assigned together with any interest in the land on which they grow, nor shares or interests in the stock, funds, or securities of any government, or in the capital or property of incorporated or joint stock companies, nor choses in action, nor any stock or produce upon any farm or lands which by virtue of any covenant or agreement or of the custom of the country ought not to be removed from any farm where the same are at the time of making or giving of such bill of sale: |