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court by the -injured person or his insurer
against such other person on account of such
damage. The term building is to include any
structure of whatever material or for what
ever purpose used. The Act is to be retro
spective and will repeal the Accidental Fires
Act, 1715.
Taxation, of Costs.
The Taxing Masters have made a rule
requiring solicitors to lodge their annual
practising certificates for noting in the Taxing
Master's Office before Bills of Costs lodged
by them are taxed. No Bill will be taxed
until
the solicitor concerned produces his
practising certificate or certificates in respect
of the period covered by the Bill. The Society
has been informed by the Taxing Masters
that it will be sufficient if solicitors produce
their certificates for recording by the office
once at the commencement of each year.
Construction of word " money " in Wills.
The House of Lords in Perrin and Others
v. Morgan (59.T.L.R.134) has decided that the
word " money " when found in a will is
capable of various meanings and that the
Court is not bound to construe the term in
what was described as
its strictly legal
meaning of cash in hand or in the bank.
Simon, L. C. referred to what he called the
pungent and entertaining judgment of Mere
dith, J., in In re Jennings (1930.1.R.200) in
which his lordship observed that the judiciary
had waged a long fight to teach testators that
" money " meant " cash," but that as the
ordinary testator who made his own will
did not read the law reports he persisted
in constantly using the word in a wider
sense, and that it was time that in such cases
a popular meaning prevailed over the'' legal
one. The decision of the House of Lords
has overruled previous English decisions
several centuries old and it is interesting to
find that in doing so it has adopted the view
held by the late Mr. Justice Meredith in 1930.
Lord Russell of Killowen and Lord Romer,
while
in agreement with
the conclusion
of Simon, L. C. and Lord Atkin, held
that the rule of construction referred to
should not be disturbed, but that in its
application
it should be made
to yield
to the context in which the term "money "
is
used.
The
report
of
this
decision
should be
read
for a complete under
standing of its effect.
OBITUARY.
MR. JAMES P. RINGWOOD, Solicitor, died on
23rd February, 1943, in Dublin.
Mr. Ringwood was admitted in Hilary
Sittings, 1884, and practised as a partner in
the firm of Messrs. Baker, Ringwood and
Gordon, at 5 Clare Street, Dublin, up to the
year 1939, when he retired.
EASTER SITTINGS, 1943.
High Court Easter Sittings begin
Thursday, the 15th day of April.
on
EASTER SITTINGS LECTURES, 1943.
The
Junior Class Lectures begin
on
Thursday, the 15th day of April, at 2.15 p.m.
The Senior Class Lectures begin on Friday,
the 16th day of April, at 2.15 p.m.
RESULTS OF EXAMINATIONS.
At examinations held on the 5th and 6th
February under
the Legal Practitioners'
(Qualification) Act, 1929, the following passed
the examinations :—
"First" Examination in Irish.
Gerald A. Alien.
James C. Brennan.
Michael T. B. Davis.
C. Hugh Doyle.
John M. Flanagan.
Daniel O. Healy.
Thomas R. R. King.
James G. Lyons.
Florence G. McCarthy.
Brigid P. Power.
Patrick Shannon.
Eleven candidates attended : eleven passed.