The Gazette 1972

CORRESPONDENCE

Society of St. Vincent de Paul,

St. Anthony's Conference,

Law Library,

Four Courts,

Dublin 7

2nd December 1971

Dear Editor,

We will be most grateful if you will draw attention

to our Annual Appeal, your Dublin members will

receive a personal notice of the appeal. We have recently

trebled the area of our care and attention with a

correspondingly increased call on our resources. The

Society expends £750,000 annually on direly necessi-

tous cases. £250,000 is annually expended in the city of

Dublin alone and our Conference expends about

£2,000 annually. Our Christmas appeal is our main

hope of meeting this expenditure. Subscriptions will be

gratefully received by the President or Treasurer at the

Law Library or at the Franciscan Friary, Merchants

Quay, where we meet each week in term and in vaca-

tion.

Sincerely and Gratefully yours,

Noel K. McDonald,

President.

Roinn Tailte

Department of Lands

Dublin

November, 1971

Dear Mr. Finnegan,

I have your letter of the 18th instant concerning

quotation of the Folio No. on half-yearly demands

issued for land annuity instalments.

Since my letter of 15th February 1971, and as

promised therein, we have carried out the operations

necessary for inclusion of the Folio reference as part of

the data on these demands and, in general, the current

issues carries the appropriate references.

As you are aware, not all lands charged with a Land

Purchase Annuity, or analogous payment, are regis-

tered. The exceptions fall mainly in the category of

lands purchased under the Acts prior to 1891 before

registration was made compulsory, or in the category

where the fee-simple interest is not yet vested in the

purchasing tenant or allottee. In such cases, of course,

the demand will carry no Folio reference as there is

none.

There is another situation in which the reference,

though existing, may be lacking in our records. In my

letter of 15th February last (5th paragraph) I men-

tioned the fact that we cannot guarantee absolute

accuracy for a Folio reference supplied at second hand.

That circumstance may extend to a lack of the Folio

reference altogether in a very small percentage of our

records, and the Nov./Dec. 1971 issue, being the first

run of Folio annotated demands, we are conscious that

omissions of the past will be reflected in the absence

of the appropriate Folio reference in the very odd case,

just as obtained, I should emphasise, in the era of the

Ten-Yearly Receivable Order. We hope to correct the

record as far as possible according as these exceptional

instances are brought to light and we have provided the

necessary systems to that end.

The case at issue is, I am sure, accounted for by one

or other of the exceptional situations referred to. If you

care to let me have particulars—the reference numbers

of the offending demands, I will have the matter

investigated fully.

Yours sincerely,

T. O'Brien,

Secretary..

Joseph G. Finnegan, Esq.,

Asst. Secretary,

Incorporated Law Society,

Dublin 7.

Faculty of Law

University College

Galway

31st December 1971

Dear Sir,

A propos of Mr. John F. Buckley's letter in your

November 1971 issue (as well as the Minister for Jus-

tice's suggestion reported in the same issue that French

or German should be a compulsory subject for all

university law degrees), it may be of interest to mention

that there is at present a proposal before the Faculty of

Arts in University College, Galway, for a change in the

syllabus which will enable students to take law in

combination with other non-legal subjects such as

French or German. If the changes suggested by a com-

mittee are accepted, Galway will, I think, be the only

college in this country where a "mixed" degree on the

lines of those obtainable in some British universities will

be available. Moreover, it will probably be possible to

combine a wider range of subjects with law here than is

possible in Britain where (judging from the Wilson

Report) the possible combinations are somewhat limited.

Yours faithfully,

J. M. G. Sweeney.

Contd. from page 23

Mr. Scammell's twelfth edition (1962) contained 949

pages, including 908 pages of text. The present edition

is no longer than the twelfth. Mr. Scammell explains

this by stating that there are relatively few decisions on

the law of partnership. Sections 120 and 121 of the

English Companies Act, 1967, which makes it possible

for certain professional partnerships to be created

without any limitation on the number of partners, do

not apply in Ireland as yet, but if we enter the Euro-

pean Community, some similar provisions will prob-

ably have to be evolved. It is also stressed that many

partnership decisions are now regulated by arbitration.

This volume has as usual been written with the clarity

and precision which have become associated with this

learned work.

As regards Irish decisions, while

Gargan v Ruttle

(1931) and

Meagher v Meagher

(1961) are mentioned,

one is surprised that

Provincial Bank of Ireland v Tallon

(1938) and

Macken v Revenue Commissioners

(1962)

are omitted. The printing is up to its usual high stan-

dard. Practitioners who deal in a large way with busi-

ness partnerships should not hesitate to acquire this

most valuable volume.

CGD