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AUGUST, 1913] The Gazette of the Incorporated Law Society of Ireland.
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Sittings, 1880.
In the year 1888 he was
appointed Assistant in the Office of the Chief
Crown Solicitor for Ireland, which position
he occupied up to the year 1907, when he was
appointed Treasury Solicitor in Ireland.
MR. GEORGE B.
WILKI.VS, Solicitor, Lisburn,
died on the 21s
t July, 1913, at his residence,
Nrorth Circular Road, Lisburn.
Mr. Wilkins, who served his apprenticeship
with the late Mr. George L. Moore, Belfast,
was admitted in Easter Sittings, 1888, and
practised at 32 Market Square, Lisburn. Mr.
Wilkins had for the past eight years been an
extra-ordinary member of the Council.
MR.
CHARLES
S.
CALDWELL,
Solicitor,
Londonderry, died on the 25th July, 1913,
at Dublin.
Mr. Caldwell, who served his apprentice
ship with Mr. Robert H. Todd, Solicitor,
Londonderry, was
admitted
in Trinity
Sittings, 1888, and practised (latterly in
partnership with Mr. Henry S. Robinson) at
Castle Street, Londonderry.
Record of Title (Ireland) Act, 1865.
THE attention of the members is called to the
following letter which has been received :—
Land Registry of Ireland,
Central Office, Henrietta Street,
Dublin,
1th July,
1913.
The Record of Title Ad (Ireland),
1865.
DEAR SIR,
The above-mentioned Act was superseded
by the Local Registration of Title (Ireland)
Act, 1891, and Section 18 of the latter Act
provides for the registration thereunder of all
titles recorded under the former Act.
The Act of 1865 was not largely availed of,
and consequently the number of Record of
Title folios opened was comparatively small—
about 800.
Some of these folios have been closed, or
the titles recorded on them transferred to the
Land Registry. Of the remaining folios some
have not been written up since the respective
dates on which they were opened, and others
have not been completely written up.
In some cases dealings affecting recorded
estates have not been entered on
the
respective folios, but have been registered in
the Registry of Deeds, contrary to the pro
visions of the Act of 1865.
(See especially
Folio 4, Record of Title.)
In these circumstances it is desirable that
the folios still remaining open should be
written up and closed and the recorded titles
transferred to the Land Registry.
I have, therefore, been directed by the
Registrar of Titles to lay the above facts
before you, and to say that he will be glad if
you can bring them to the notice of the
Solicitors' profession.
I am to add that any Solicitor desiring
information with regard to Record of Title
folios should inquire at this Office.
I am,
Yours faithfully,
(Signed),
RAYMOND SMITH,
Chief Clerk.
Wm. Geo. Wakely, Esq.,
Secretary, Incorporated Law Society,
Four. Courts, Dublin.
Recent Decisions affecting Solicitors.
(Notes of decisions, whether in reported or
unreported cases, of interest to Solicitors, are
invited from Members.)
CHANCERY DIVISION (ENGLAND).
(Before Joyce J.)
BEBB
v.
THE LAW SOCIETY.
July 2,
1913. —
Solicitor — Admission —
Whether women entitled to admission.
A WOMAN is not entitled to be admitted to
the preliminary examination held by the Law
Society under the Solicitors Acts.
This was an action by Miss Gwyneth
Marj one Bebb asking for a declaration that
she was a " person " within the meaning of
the Solicitors Act (England), 184-3, and the
amending Acts, and that she was entitled to
be admitted to the preliminary examination
held by the Law Society under such Acts.
Mr. Justice Joyce, in giving judgment,
said that if the applicant were disqualified
by reason of her sex, then the application
failed.
According to the common law a
woman was incapable of occupying a public
office
(Beresjord-Hope
v.
Sandhurst
(5
The
Times L. R.,
472 (1889) 23 Q.B.D., 79).
It
had been said that a Solicitor did not exercise