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Vol. 43
No. 9
March,
1950
THE GAZETTE
of the
INCORPORATED LAW SOC IETY OF IRELAND
President
Vice-Presidents
Secretary
W
illiam
J . N
orman
T
homas
A
O ’R
eilly
E
ric
A.
P
lunkett
.
D
ermot
P. S
haw
FOR CIRCULATION AMONG MEMBERS
MEETING OF THE COUNC IL
F
ebruary
23RD.
The President in the Chair. Also
present: Messrs. Thomas A. O’Reilly and Dermot
P. Shaw, Vice-Presidents ; Messrs. Sean
C)
hUadh-
aigh, Joseph P. Tyrrell, John P. Carrigan, Francis
J. Gearty, Roger Greene, Reginald J. Nolan,
James J . O’Connor, William L. Duggan, John D.
O’Connell, John R. Halpin, John S. O’Connor,
Henry St. J. Blake, Patrick R. Boyd, Desmond R.
Counahan, Gerald J. O’Donnell, Derrick M. Martin,
George A. Overend, John J. Nash, Desmond J.
Mayne, Louis E. O’Dea, Joseph Barrett, Daniel
O’Connell, Arthur Cox.
The following was among the business transacted :
Examination Results
T
he
Council considered and adopted a report from
the Court o f Examiners on the results of the First
and Second Irish Examinations held in February.
The Examination results are printed below.
Land Bill, 1949
T
he
President reported that he had attended to
interview the Assistant Secretary o f the Depart
ment o f Lands, accompanied by Mr. Boyd and
the Secretary, on the subject o f section 23 o f the
Land Bill, 1949. This section, as drafted, enables
the Land Commission to purchase any interest in
land in the open .market, and section 24 provides
that where the Land Commission have purchased
land under section 23 they may make a transfer
order vesting the lands indefeasibly in fee-simple
in the Land Commission.
Objection had been
taken to the transfer order procedure in the Bill,
both from the point of view o f incumbrancers and
from the point of view of the profession. The
objection from the point o f view o f incumbrancers
was that it seemed to be open to doubt whether an
incumbrancer whose interest was overlooked would
be entitled to compensation for the land acquired
by the Land Commission under the transfer order
procedure. The objection from the point of view op
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