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THE GAZETTE
OF THE
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Vol. XXXVI, No.
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MARCH, 1943
:
FOR CIRCULATION
AMONGST MEMBERS
CURRENT TOPICS.
The Society's Gazette.
A Committee of the Council recently con
sidered whether any and if so what steps
could be taken to make the GAZETTE of
greater utility and interest to the profession.
The Report of the Committee which was
adopted by the Council recommended
inter
alia
that members of the Society should be
invited to* contribute items of professional
interest for publication in the GAZETTE.
It
was also decided to ask the various Bar
Associations throughout the country to keep
in
touch with
the Society
through
the
GAZETTE and to contribute for publication
notes of their proceedings and activities and
items of general.interest.
It is hoped that
the members of the Society will act on this
invitation and in this way co-operate in
making the GAZETTE of greater interest to
the profession.
Registration of Title Act, 1942.
The above Act became law on 15th Dec
ember, 1942.
Its provisions materially affect
the law relating to registered land and should
be noted by solicitors.
Landlord and Tenant (Amendment) Bill, 1942.
The above Bill as introduced in Bail
Eireann is designed to amend Section 46 of
the Landlord and Tenant Act, 1931, in so far
as it defines the term building lease. Under
the present definition of a building lease the
land
thereby demised must be situated
wholly in an urban area. The effect of the
amending Bill, if enacted, will be to include
leases of land situate outside urban areas not
exceeding one statute acre in area. The Bill
contains further provisions applicable
to
cases where permanent buildings have been
erected upon land and it is alleged that they
were so erected in pursuance of an agreement
for a lease to be executed upon the erection
of such buildings. Where express evidence
of such agreement is not available but it is
shown that the buildings were erected by the
person to whom the lease was in fact subse
quently made the Bill provides that the
Court must presume that they were erected
in pursuance of such an agreement.
In any
case to which the foregoing provision does not
apply the Court after hearing the available
evidence may make such a presumption if
it thinks fit.
Accidental Fires Bill, 1943.
This Bill has just been introduced in Dail
Eireann in order to remedy the situation
created by the decision of the Supreme
Court in Richardson and Webster v. Athlone
Woollen Mills
(77.I.L.T.R.27).
The Bill
provides that where any person has suffered
damage by reason of the occurrence of acci
dental fire on the building or land of another
no legal proceeding shall be instituted in any