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24 The Gazette of the Incorporated Law Society of Ireland. [JUNE, 1907
RECORDER'S COURT.
(Before the Recorder of Dublin.)
May nth, 1907.
Sheriff's Fees.—Dunm and Clancy v. Blood,
Findlater, & Co.
Seizure ofgoods the property of the Execution
Creditor.
THIS was an action for £3 gs. 6d., being fees
claimed by the Sheriff of Dublin against the
defendants as solicitors for an execution credi
tor in execution of a writ of fi. fa. and a writ
of ^delivery in a case of the National Cash
Register Company, Limited, v. The de
fendants had lodged a writ . with the
sheriff for execution, and the informed
them that the debtor's wife, claimed the goods
on the premises, but that the bailiff had seized
a cash register, which he was advertising for
sale. Defendants cautioned the sheriff against
selling the cash register, which was the pro
perty of the execution creditor, same being in
debtor's possession under a hire-purchase
agreement, and called upon the sheriff to make
his return, as they were applying for a writ of
delivery. The return to the_/f. _/a. was one of
"nullabona," "wife claims," and the writ of
delivery was lodged with the sheriff, who de
livered the cash register under same. The
sheriff claimed £2 6s., poundage fees and
expenses on execution of the writ offi. fa., in
addition to £i i,s. 6d. fees for execution of the
writ of delivery. The latter fees were admitted
as payable, and same were tendered and lodged
in Court:
Held, that the sheriff had not seized any
goods of the judgment debtor, the cash register
having been the execution creditor's own pro
perty, and the sheriff accordingly was not
entitled to fees in respect of such seizure, but
was entitled only to the fees payable under the
writ of delivery.
Annual Certificate Duty.
THE following appears in the Parliamentary
papers of the isth May, 1907:—
Q. Mr. O'Doherty,—To ask Mr. Chancellor
of the Exchequer, if he can say whether he
has received a copy of a resolution from the
Northern Law Society in Ireland protesting
against the continuance of the licence duty
payable by solicitors in Ireland ; if so, whether
it is his intention to abolish this tax ; and, if
not, why. \_\^th May, 1907.]
Q. Mr. O'Doherty,—To ask Mr. Chancellor
of the Exchequer, if he can say whether he
has received a memorial from the Council of
the Incorporated Law Society of Ireland, pray
ing that the annual duties payable by solicitors
in Ireland, under the provisions of the Stamp
Act of 1891, be abolished from and after the
5th day of January, 1908 ; and whether he
proposes to take steps to do so. [_i^.th May,
1907.]
Q. Mr. Vincent Kennedy, — To ask Mr.
Chancellor of the Exchequer, if his attention
has been called to a resolution from the
Northern Law Society of Ireland praying for
the abolition of the licence duty payable by
solicitors; and, if so, will he consider the
advisability of removing this tax, which is not
paid by any other profession. [14^ May,
1907.]
A. Mr. Asquith. — I have received the
memorial and the resolution referred to, and
I have given careful consideration to the argu
ments advanced in favour of the abolition of
this licence duty.
Nothing has, however, been urged against
the duty which is not in my opinion equally
applicable to 'many other licence duties of a
more or less similar character, nor is there any
sufficient reason for treating Ireland differently
as regards this matter from other portions of
the United Kingdom.
I do not, therefore, see my way to taking
any steps unless and until an opportunity
arises of revising local taxation licences as
a whole. [15^/2 May, 1907.]
Workmen's Compensation Act, 1906.
ATTENTION is directed to the following para
graphs of sections 16 and 13 of this Act, which
extends the liability of employers to (inter alia)
those engaged in clerical work :—
Section 16. (i) This Act shall come into
operation on the first day of July, nineteen
hundred and seven, but, except so far as it
relates to references to medical referees, and