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Vol.
40
No.
9
March,
1947
THE GAZETTE
of the
INCORPORATED LAW SOCIETY OF IRELAND
President :
H. ST. J. BLAKE
Pice-Presidents :
WILLIAM L. DUGGAN
JOHN J. BOLGER
Secretary :
ERIC A.
PLUNKETT
FOR CIRCULATION AMONG MEMBERS
MEETING OF THE COUNCIL
FEBRUARY zist. The President in the chair : Also
present: Mr. John J. Bolger, Vice-President;
Messrs. W. J. Norman, J. P. Tyrrell, J. R. Quirke,
J. Barrett, D. O'Connell, H. P. Mayne, P. R. Boyd,
J. B. Hamill, R. J. Nolan, A. Cox, J. J. Smyth,
D. P. Shaw, S. 6 hUadhaigh, J. S. O'Connor,
L. E. O'Dea, P. F. O'Reilly.
The following was among the business transacted :
Costs Query
THE Council considered a report from a Committee
on a query as to the proper scale of costs chargeable
by a solicitor acting for the purchaser of lands
which had been offered for sale by public auction
under conditions in which the land was disclosed
as unregistered land. The property was not sold at
the auction but was sold some months later by private
treaty under the same conditions. Title was shown
and investigated and searches were made and a deed
of conveyance prepared, approved and engrossed.
It then transpired that the lands had been registered
under the Registration of Title Act, 1891, between
the date of the auction and the signing of the con–
ditions of sale, unknown to the purchaser's solicitor.
A new transfer was prepared and the sale was com–
pleted and the dealing registered on the folio. At
the request of the purchaser equities were not dis–
charged. In the opinion of the Committee the costs
should be charged under the Land Registration
Rules, 1937, and the appropriate scale was two-thirds
of the scale under the Solicitors Remuneration
Act, 1881, in addition to outlay. The report of the
Committee was approved.
Solicitors' Remuneration
THE President reported that the Superior Courts
Rules Committee had made an order increasing
solicitors' remuneration in the High Court and
Supreme Court by 25 per cent, in respect of business
transacted on or after 24th February, 1947. A copy
of the Order is printed in this issue.
The President also reported that the Committee
under Section 2 of the Solicitors Remuneration
Act, 1881, had met on two occasions to deal with the
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