Edwards v O'Connor - [1989] 3 NZLR 448

Contract — Illegal contract — Severance of illegality — Vendor agreed to sell boat and fishing licence, the licence being non-transferable — Whether contract was illegal from its inception — Whether Illegal Contracts Act applied to such a contract — Whether contract should be validated — Whether illegal part of contract should be severed — Fisheries Act 1983, s 41 - Illegal Contracts Act 1970, ss 3 and 7.