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The Gazette of the Incorporated Law Society of Ireland.
[MAR.. 1909
Lectures.
An application by an apprentice \vho had
missed three lectures during Hilary Sittings
owing to ill-health, asking for credit for such
lectures, was considered, and permission was
granted to supplement such lectures by attend
ance at two additional lectures during Easter
and Trinity Sittings.
Costs Committee.
A report from the Costs Committee was sub
mitted and adopted upon the following query
as to what costs the vendor's solicitor was
entitled
to
under
the
following
circum
stance :—Leasehold property of a deceased
was put up for sale by auction in several lots.
Lot No. 8 was sold for ,£150, the purchaser
signing a contract,'! and paying
£12
los.
deposit, and
£j IDS.
auction fees. Abstract of
title and documents to vouch were sent to her
solicitor ;
his requisitions were discharged,
draft conveyance approved of and returned ;
but it then turned out that the purchaser had
not money to complete, and time was given
for her to raise it. After attempts to obtain
the purchase-money failing, the lot was put
upon house agents' books for sale, and a pur
chaser offered
£150,
but declined to proceed on
inspecting abstractof title and copies of deeds
which had to be re-drawn, as the original pur
chaser refused to return those furnished to him.
Finally, the lot was sold privately for ^£125.
£10
of the original deposit was, with consent
of vendors, returned to the original purchaser.
The decision of the Council was that the
vendors' solicitor is entitled to the scale fee on
the completed sale at ^125, and also
to
remuneration for the work done (in so far as
such work is not covered by the scale fee on
the completed sale) in connexion with the
attempted sale to the first intended purchaser,
drawn under the old system as altered by
Schedule II.
Labourers (Ireland) Act.
Letters from two solicitors in reference to
taxation of owners' costs for making title were
submitted, one of which was referred to the
Costs Committee to be dealt with, and a reply
to the other was approved of.
Council Meetings.
MEETINGS of the Council will be held upon
the following dates :—
March roth and 24th.
April 21 st.
Committee Meetings.
THE following Committee Meetings were held
during February:—
House, Library, and Finance, 3rd.
Land Act, 5th.
Bankruptcy Law, 5th.
Gazette, i7th.
New Members.
THE following have joined the Society during
February, 1909:—
Elliot, Thomas J., Belfast.
Magee, John H., Donegal.
Russell, Charles M., Downpatrick.
Walsh, Henry St. P., Tralee.
Commissioners to administer Oaths.
THE Lord Chancellor has appointed the
following to be Commissioners to administer
Oaths :—
Louis A. Finnegan, Income Tax Collector)
Abbeyleix.
Walter John Joyce, Portumna.
Denis O'Carroll, Clerk of Rural District
Council, Castlecomer.
James Rankin, Clerk of Petty Sessions,
Garvagh.
Obituary.
MR. William S. O'B. Leahy, Solicitor, died
on the ist February, 1909, at his residence,
Licadoon, Limerick. Mr. Leahy served his
apprenticeship with his father, the late Mr.
Michael Leahy, of Newcastle West, County
Limerick, and was admitted in Hilary Term,
'875-
Mr. Leahy, who practised in Limerick, was
appointed Sessional Crown Solicitor of Limerick
in 1892, and Crown Solicitor in 1893, which
office he held up to 1907, when he resigned.
He latterly practised in partnership with his
son, Mr. Edward Leahy, who carries on the
business under the style of Leahy & Son.
Mr. James J. W. Savage, Solicitor, died on
the 27th February, 1909, at his residence, The
Square, Castleblayney.