§ MR. ARTHUR ARNOLDasked Mr. Solicitor General, with reference to Clause 106 of the Patents for Inventions Bill, imposing a penalty not exceeding £20 upon the unauthorized assumption of the Royal Arms, Whether engravers and designers who produce, and tradesmen who, for loyalty and ornament, display the Royal Arms on trade labels, shop fronts, paper bags, and in other ways, but without any word or words implying that they make such assumption by authority, will be free from liability?
§ THE SOLICITOS GENERAL (Sir FARRER HERSCHELL)I have no hesitation in saying that persons displaying the Royal Arms under the circumstances mentioned would not render themselves liable under the clause.