Ryan v Evans - [1946] NZLR 75

Vendor and Purchaser — Land Sales — Land Sales Court — Jurisdiction — Basis of Jurisdiction — Application for Consent — Substantial Compliance with Statutory Requirements — Absence of Verifying Declaration fatal to Jurisdiction — Prohibition to refrain from acting on Defective Application — "Slight" — Servicemen's Settlement and Land Sales Act, 1943, s 48 — Acts Interpretation Act, 1924, s 5 (i).