The Gazette 1940-44

March, 1943J

The Gazette of the Incorporated Law Society ot Ireland

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court by the -injured person or his insurer against such other person on account of such damage. The term building is to include any structure of whatever material or for what ever purpose used. The Act is to be retro spective and will repeal the Accidental Fires Act, 1715. Taxation, of Costs. The Taxing Masters have made a rule requiring solicitors to lodge their annual practising certificates for noting in the Taxing Master's Office before Bills of Costs lodged by them are taxed. No Bill will be taxed until the solicitor concerned produces his practising certificate or certificates in respect of the period covered by the Bill. The Society has been informed by the Taxing Masters that it will be sufficient if solicitors produce their certificates for recording by the office once at the commencement of each year. Construction of word " money " in Wills. The House of Lords in Perrin and Others v. Morgan (59.T.L.R.134) has decided that the word " money " when found in a will is capable of various meanings and that the Court is not bound to construe the term in what was described as its strictly legal meaning of cash in hand or in the bank. Simon, L. C. referred to what he called the pungent and entertaining judgment of Mere dith, J., in In re Jennings (1930.1.R.200) in which his lordship observed that the judiciary had waged a long fight to teach testators that " money " meant " cash," but that as the ordinary testator who made his own will did not read the law reports he persisted in constantly using the word in a wider sense, and that it was time that in such cases a popular meaning prevailed over the'' legal one. The decision of the House of Lords has overruled previous English decisions several centuries old and it is interesting to find that in doing so it has adopted the view held by the late Mr. Justice Meredith in 1930. Lord Russell of Killowen and Lord Romer, while in agreement with the conclusion of Simon, L. C. and Lord Atkin, held that the rule of construction referred to should not be disturbed, but that in its application it should be made to yield to the context in which the term "money "

is

used.

The

report

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this

decision

should be

read

for a complete under

standing of its effect.

OBITUARY. MR. JAMES P. RINGWOOD, Solicitor, died on 23rd February, 1943, in Dublin. Mr. Ringwood was admitted in Hilary Sittings, 1884, and practised as a partner in the firm of Messrs. Baker, Ringwood and Gordon, at 5 Clare Street, Dublin, up to the year 1939, when he retired.

EASTER SITTINGS, 1943. High Court Easter Sittings begin Thursday, the 15th day of April.

on

EASTER SITTINGS LECTURES, 1943. The Junior Class Lectures begin on Thursday, the 15th day of April, at 2.15 p.m. The Senior Class Lectures begin on Friday, the 16th day of April, at 2.15 p.m.

RESULTS OF EXAMINATIONS. At examinations held on the 5th and 6th February under the Legal Practitioners' (Qualification) Act, 1929, the following passed the examinations :— "First" Examination in Irish. Gerald A. Alien.

James C. Brennan. Michael T. B. Davis. C. Hugh Doyle. John M. Flanagan. Daniel O. Healy. Thomas R. R. King. James G. Lyons. Florence G. McCarthy.

Brigid P. Power. Patrick Shannon. Eleven candidates attended : eleven passed.