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Report of Committee
The legal estate appears to have re-vested in the
vendor by operation of law and a reconveyance is
unnecessary.
If the purchaser requires a recon
veyance, it must be at his own expense (see Sandes
v.
Thompson (22 Ch.D. 614)) ; Emmet on Title,
loth Edition, pages 49 and 207. The Committee's
report was adopted.
Public Appointments
The following resolution was proposed, seconded
and unanimously adopted :
" That this Council desires to submit to the
Minister for Justice, the Minister for Local
Government and the Attorney General that
when considering applications from Solicitors
for Public Appointments—all other qualifi
cations being equal—the candidate who fur
nishes evidence that he is a member of both
the Incorporated Law Society and a Bar Associ
ation be preferred for the appointment.
" That copies of this Resolution be forwarded
to the Minister for Justice, the Minister for
Local Government, and the Attorney General."
Application under Section
47
One application under Section 47 was considered
and granted on payment of the current duty.
HALF-YEARLY GENERAL
MEETING
THE Half-yearly General Meeting of the Society
was held on Tuesday, i8th May, 1948, in the
Solicitors' Buildings. The President, Mr. Scan 0
hUadhaigh, was in the chair. The following members
of the Society signed their names as being present:
Mr. James R. Quirke, Vice-President; Messrs.
Joseph Barrett, Henry St. J. Blake, Patrick R. Boyd,
Arthur Cox, Francis J. Gearty, Roger Greene,
William S. Hayes, James J. Lynch, William J.
Norman, Daniel O'Connell, Thomas A. O'Reilly,
G. Acheson Overend, Joseph P. Tyrrell, Desmond
Moran, John P. J. Smyth, D. D. MacDonald,
Leonard Webb, P. K. M. Carey, C. Gore-Grimes
and E. H. Byrne.
The notice convening the meeting was by per
mission of the meeting taken as read. The Secretary
read the minutes of the Half-yearly General Meeting,
held on November 26th, 1947, and the Minutes
of the Special General Meeting held on January
29th, 1948, which were signed by the Chairman.
The President announced that he nominated the
following members of the Society to act as scru
tineers for the ballot for the Council to be held on
22nd November,
1948 :—Messrs.
J. R. McC.
Blakeney, D.
J. Collins, T.
Jackson, B.
P.
McCormack and R. J. Tierney.
The Chairman addressing the meeting said :—
A UAISLE,
Fearaim failte romhaibh chun an chruinnithe seo
na leathbhliana. Ta athas orm a ra go bhfuil gach
deallramh ann go bhfuil ag eiri go geal le cursai
ar ngairme agus go hairithe go bhfuil cuis eigin
dochais againn i dtaobh ar mBille 6 tharlufonn ar
dhuairt an tAire Dli agus Girt an ofche fa dheireadh
ag Dinnear an Chumainn. Ma tamuid ag faniiint
le fada go foighdeach le toradh eigin d'fheicsint
ar obair an Choiste ata i mbun an Bhille, is cosuil go
bhfuil fuascailt ar gcuid deachrachtai ag druidiuint
linn. Ma's maith is mithid e sin, gan amhras !
Ce
go blifuil a bheag no a mhor den teangain Naisiunta
ag gach aturnae 6g, de thoradh an Achta a thug
cothram di in oiliuint na bprlntiseacha le
tamall
maith anuas, ta a fhios again go bhfuil cuid mhaith
dem' lucht eisteachta nach dtuigeann i, agus, da
bhri sin, ni mor dam an Bearla do tharrac chugam.
Ta siiil agam go dtiocfaidh an la nach mbeidh ga
ag mo chomharbai usaid a bhaint ag a leitheid seo
cruinnithe ach as an Ghaeilg.
GENTLEMEN,
It is usual at our Half-yearly Meeting for the
President to refer to the members of our profession
who have died since our last General Meeting.
It is
indeed fitting that we should, on an occasion such
as this, pause for a moment to pay tribute to our
professional brethren who shared the same training
for a life of trust and of service with us, and in
which, perhaps, we had many and pleasant associa
tions with them, to convey our sympathy in their
loss with those who were dear to them and who
depended on their exertions for support, and that
we should pray the good God according to the
measure of our respective faiths to shew their souls
that mercy which we believe is earned by all honest
work in the service of their fellow creatures in any
calling. The close relations and the spirit of co
operation engendered by a common training and
by shared professional ideals which distinguish us
as a body make this peculiarly fitting in the case of
this Society.
Since our last meeting the following members
of our Society have died :
William M. Reid, Cavan ;
John W. Flynn, Dublin;
John Quinn, Tuam;
Herbert J. Smyth, Dublin; Bartholomew Collins,
Dublin ; Frederick B. McDonogh, Tuam ; John M.
Mark, Londonderry ; Michael A. Conroy, Ballagha-
derreen; Harry R. Whelan, Dublin; James Poe,
Kilkenny; B. R. W. Doran, Dublin; Thomas
O'B. Kelly, Limerick ; Harford A. C. Kelly, Dublin;
Thomas H. R. Craig, Dublin; Henry F. Chidley,
Dublin ; Francis E. Stephens, Dublin ; Alexander
Fisher, Newry ; John B. Hamill, Dundalk ; Thomas
H. G. Wallis, Cork; Mrs. Edith G. Temple Lang,
Dublin ; Frederick M. Kelly, Dublin.