Under the 1900 Act, a moneylender was required to carry on his business only in his registered name and at his registered address.
Held: (Lord Atkinson) the words ‘carries on business’ implied a repetition of acts, and ‘Whether one isolated transaction carried out by a money-lender from its inception to its completion at a place other than his registered address amounts or does not amount to the crime of carrying on business elsewhere than at his registered address, within the meaning of the statute, must depend on the particulars or circumstances attending the transaction. The carrying out of one such transaction does not necessarily amount to an offence, but circumstances are conceivable where it might amount to it;’
Judges:
Lord Atkinson, Lord Loreburn
Citations:
[1910] AC 422
Statutes:
Jurisdiction:
England and Wales
Cited by:
Cited – Kenny v Conroy and Another CA 27-Jan-1999
A court need only first see whether at the time of the loan, the party’s business was that of moneylender. If not, the court then investigates if the person held themselves out as carrying on such a business. Kennedy L.J: ‘. . . a licensed . .
Cited – GE Capital Bank Ltd v Rushton and Another CA 14-Dec-2005
The bank had entered into a master trading agreement with a trader under which the trader bought motor vehicles as agent for the bank for resale. The vehicles belonged to the bank. The defendant bought all the trader’s vehicles. The defendant now . .
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Banking
Updated: 07 May 2022; Ref: scu.236664