The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1901-03-05
BRITISH B. .NKRUPTS.
PRIVILEGES WHICH ARE ACCORDED
sY LAW TO PEERS.

What Constitute the Necessaries of
Life = They Widely Differ From
Duke to Ordinary Mortal.
Recent bankruptcy cases in London
have brought up various legal decisions
which have been reached in England
on the subject of what are necessaries
of life for men of various stations and
degrees who are not in command of
theiraown incomes.
A duke, for instance, or even a mar
uuis or an earl is entitled by law to
one bottle of champagne day if his
trustees hold the money to pay for it.
In the case of the former Duke of Man.
chester the law decided that seven bot
ties Of champagne week are neces-
sary to a duke whose affairs may be in
the hands of trustees and that If he
had not the control of his own income
he must be allowed to have a carriage
with one horse, a riding horse as well,
one manservant and a house with a
rent of not less than f250 year; 9th
erwise he must be allowed to have the
use of $4,000 a year, while the rest
might be allowed to accumulate for the
good of the estate till the trustee pc
Rod expired.
A viscount or baron is allowed by
law to describe as necessaries things
which smaller fry might struggle along
without. But a viscount's income
provided there is anybody to pay it's
fixed at Fl, 800 year and baron's at
f1,OOO He is, supposing any guard
ians have a few thousands a year to
pay out to him according to discretion,
only entitled to claret as beverage.
for his yearly wine allowance only runs
to EGO, which would not keep him in
champagne unless he drank it very sell
dom. The dukes wine bill may run
to ESQ.
The viscount must have a carriage,
but it may be attached for debt, and
he cannot force his guardians to give
him a horse. OF course, if he has nc
guardians, nor any income, either, he
must do as other people and go with
out, but these things are considered
necessary to peers. A manservant is
allowed to a viscount or baron, but
the house rent need not exceed f2OO
nor can it be less than ESQ.
A doctor is better off than viscount
in one way-his carriage cannot be
seized in most cases. nor can the ex
penses of 1t be reckoned in his income
tax returns. In selling up doctor fol
debt he may retain one horse, and two
of his carpets are considered as neces
saries to his business-in the hall anC
consulting room-and reckoned at EN-
apiece. He may have surgical instru
ments and medical appliances to thu
value of f1,0O0, and these cannot b.
seized.
An ordinary man can retain nothing
| but his clothes, his hairbrushes and {
| few stern necessaries of that kind. NJ
wine is allowed to a doctor, but If 6
student in the hands Of trustees, he car
| demand a couple of servants and
house rent of EGO per year.
The son of a well to do merchant OF
tradesman making about f1,OO0 yea
can demand neither wine nor horses
nor servants, but the law may allow
| him rent of ESQ and another ESQ Of
f200 to keep himself on, supposing ht
is in the hands of guardians, whether
under OF over age AS to debt, he car
be sold up. bar his personal necessaries
and his clothes, though he is not gen
orally allowed to keep more than si1
| suits of the latter.
If he has more a judge might allow
| them to be taken with the other chat
tells, and he can be left without a chail
| to sit on or spoon to eat with. Jewel
nv, if he has any, can be taken; but il
he has, say, two pairs of valuable
sleeve links he can keep only one Of
| them. In the same way he may keel
a dress suit. but if he has two an ordel
may be made to sell up one of them.
A lawyer can have 500 books on lega
| subjects or in some way pertaining tt
law, and these have to be left alone By
the brokers. There are extreme case
in which everything, even necessaries
| may be taken, but the lawyer may alst
demand exemption even in such caseI
! for his wigs, or at least two of them
and two gowns. AS a student in thu
hands of guardians he can make then
| pay him $50 a year for chambers, an(
they must pay his examination ant
other fees.
A clergyman or minister of any kint
is worst off of all and can keep very
little for himself. He can make hi
| guardians come down with the fees hi
profession needs, however, and If h'
| lives in the country as curate anC
| has some trustees and also a guardian
he can make them supply him with
| gardener.