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Vol. 43
No. 1
THE
May,
1949
GAZETTE
of the
INCORPORATED LAW SOC IETY OF IRELAND
President
P
atrick
R.
B
oyd
Vice-Presidents
J
oseph
T
yrrell
J
oseph
B
arrett
Secretary
E
ric
A.
P
lunkett
.
FOR CIRCULATION AMONG MEMBERS
MEETING OF THE COUNCIL
A
pril
28
th
.
The President in the Chair: also
present: Messrs. Joseph Barrett, V .P .; Joseph P.
Tyrrell, Henry St. J. Blake, Dermot P. Shaw,
Reginald J. Nolan, William L. Duggan, J. D.
O’Connell, William J. Norman, Gerald J. O’Donnell,
Henry P. Mayne, J. Travers Wolfe, G. A. Overend,
James R. Quirke, Daniel O’Connell, John P.
Carrigan, Alex. S. Merrick, Niall S. Gaffney, Thomas
A. O’Reilly, Jouis E. O’Dea, Arthur Cox, William S.
Huggard, Patrick F. O’Reilly, Sean O’hUadhaigh,
Roger Greene, John J. Dunne.
The following was among the business trans
acted :—
Jurisdiction o f the District Court
A
C
ommittee
which had considered the replies
from the bar associations to a circular sent out by
the Secretary, reported that the majority o f the
associations which had replied were in favour of
legislation to increase the jurisdiction o f the District
Court. The Committee reported that the limit of
jurisdiction in cases o f contact should be increased
t0 £j°> in cases o f tort to £25, and in cases of eject
ment for nonpayment o f rent to £53. It was
further reported that legislation should be sought to
enable a decree o f the District Court to be enrolled
for the purposes o f judgment mortgage, garnishee,
and other remedies which are not at present avail
able, owing to the fact that the District Court is not
a court o f record. The report o f the committee
was adopted, and the Secretary was directed to write
to the Department o f Justice.
Purchase o f Property for a Mental Home
A
solicitor
was instructed by a County Manager
to attend at an auction to bid for the purchase of
premises required for a mental hospital. The
authority o f the County Manager to purchase the
premises was derived from Section 51 o f the Mental
Treatment Act, 1945. Section 52 o f the Act in
corporates the provisions of the Lands Clauses
Consolidation Acts. The solicitor attended at the
auction, and bid in accordance with his instructions,
and at negotiations after the auction, purchased the
premises on behalf of the County Manager for
£13,000, paying the deposit out o f his own pocket.
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