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The effect of the Order will be that, as on and
from the 1st January, 1970, any conveyance
on sale
of freehold land or grant or assignment
on sale
of
a leasehold interest in land (being an interest under
a lease with more than 21 years to run) in these
Counties will not vest the estate or interest pur
ported to be conveyed, granted or assigned unless,
within six months, the purchaser becomes regis
tered as owner in the Land Registry. The period
of six months may be extended by the Registrar
of Titles or by
the court where circumstances
warrant. Most of the agricultural land has already
been registered compulsorily and the Order will
mainly affect urban land in these counties. It will
be noted that the obligation to register applies only
on the occasion of
a sale
and that the duty of
registering rests on the purchaser.
The Order is the first step in the implementation
of the Minister's policy, as enshrined in the 1964
Act, that the title to all land in the State should
ultimately be registered in the Land Registry.
Compulsory registration will be extended to addit
ional counties according to the capacity of the
Land Registry to handle the additional work.
BOOK REVIEW
'Precedent In English Law and other
Essays'
by Professor James Louis Montrose, edited by
Professor H. G. Hanbury.
Irish University
Press, 1968.
This book consists of a selection of the work of
Professor J. L. Montrose, Dean of the faculty of
Law, Queen's University, Belfast 1934-1963, with
an
important introduction by H. G. Hanbury,
Vinerian Professor Emeritus of English Law in
The University of Oxford. The volume itself is a
tribute to the memory of Professor Montrose and
comprises various articles, essays and book re
views he delivered over his long and distinguished
career as a teacher of law. The advantage of this
book is that it takes the best of Professor Montrose
and presents it to the reader in an easy accessible
form, otherwise the student would have to sift
through numerous publications, not always avail
able, to arrive at the same end. The book has also
the added merit of containing an index of all the
other known work of Professor Montrose.
The introduction of Professor Hanbury con
tains a short biographical note on the life, academic
and otherwise, of Professor Montrose as well as a
valuable
comment on
each
of
the nineteen
selection in this book. The selection themselves
contain a wide cross section of his work, varying
from a detailed consideration of the Cheques Act
1957 or "The basis of the power of an agent in
cases of actual and apparent authority" to an
address
to Queen's University matriculation
students in 1955. Of this latter address, Professor
Hanbury uses the word "gem", and mentions that
it would be unthinkable to consign it to oblivion.
The title of the book is taken from the first sel
ection in the book—a book review of Professor
R. Cross' work on "Precedent in English Law".
This book is well worth reading, bringing out, as
it does, the very best of Montrose, and nowhere
is this more apparent than in his essay on the
Scope of Jurisprudence, an essay made all the more
remarkable by
the fact that
it was written by
Professor Montrose while "in the Camcron High
lands without any authorities being available".
James O'Reilly, B.C.L., LL.B.
SOLICITORS' APPRENTICES'
NEWS
Examinations
The new lay-out for the First, Second and Third
Law Examination, which was proposed by the
Liaison Committee to the Court of Examiners at
the meeting held on 28th March last, will come
into effect in September. It has been received by
the Solicitors Apprentices with universal acclaim.
With the kind help of Mr. Fitzpatrick and the
office staff three hundred copies of the new lay
out were printed and were distributed
to
the
apprentices by
the members of
the Liaison
Committee.
The examination subjects will now be taken in
the following order: Practice and Procedure of
Circuit and District Court, (3rd Law); Contract,
(1st Law); Conveyancing, (2nd Law); Commercial
Law, (3rd Law); Law of Real Property (1st Law);
Company Law, (2nd Law); Probate and Executor-
ship Law, (3rd Law); Law of Tort, )lst Law);
Equity, (2nd Law); Criminal Law and Evidence,
(3rd Law); Practice and Procedure of Supreme and
High Courts, (2nd Law); Tax Law (3rd Law).
The last date for entry for the September Law
Examinations is August 18th, the examinations
start on Monday 8th September and end on Satur
day 13th September.
At the same meeting of March 28th last, it was
agreed that an extra Book-keeping examination
will be held in the Autumn. It will be held on
September 29th, the last day for entry being 8th
September. This extra examination will be of
special value to those apprentices who, having
done their "Final" have still to do the book
keeping examination, before this year they would
have had to wait until the following February,
they will now be able to qualify that much earlier.
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