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The Gazette of the Incorporated Law Society of Ireland.
[MARCH, 1915
Calendar of the Incorporated Law Society,
1915.
THE Calendar and Law Directory, published
by the Society for 1915, can be obtained in
the Secretary's Office, price three shillings,
or by post three shillings and fourpence.
Land Registry.
•
THE following correspondence deals with the
practice relating to the obtaining of copies
of folios :—
The Incorporated Law Society of Ireland,
Solicitors' Buildings, Four Courts,
Dublin, 6th February, 1915.
Dear Sir,
Would you oblige me by letting me know,
for the information of the Council of this
Society, whether copies of folios can be
obtained either in the'Local Office or in the
Central Office, at the option of the party
bespeaking, and whether there has been any
recent change in the practice in this matter ?
Faithfully yours,
(Signed), WM. GEO. WAKELY,
Secretary.
Raymond Smith, Esq.,
Chief Clerk,
Land Registry,
Four Courts, Dublin.
Land Registry of Ireland,
Central Office,
Four Courts,
Dublin, 9th February, 1915.
Copy Folios.
Dear Sir,
I am in receipt of your letter of the 6th
inst., asking whether there has been any
recent change in the practice of bespeaking
copies of folios in the Local or Central Office
of the Land Registry at the option of the
party bespeaking such copies.
In reply, I am directed by the Registrar
to state, for the information of your Council,
that the matter stands as follows :—
Evidence of title to registered land can be
shown by the production of—
(1) The Central Office or Local Office
Folio.
(2) The Land Certificate.
(3) A Sealed Copy of
(a)
the Central
Office Folio ;
or
(b)
the Local
Office Folio.
The Land Certificate in any title can be
issued only to the owner, or his or her
Solicitor, and is bespoken at and issued by
the Central Office only, although it bears'the
countersignature of the Local Registrar and
the seal of the Local Office. Where an
annuity
is
payable,
the original Land
Certificate is deposited by us in the Irish
Land Commission, which Department issues
to the person bespeaking the Certificate a
paper certified copy thereof.
A Sealed Copy Folio can be bespoken by
and issued to anyone interested, and any
number of copies of the same Folio can be
issued. These copies can be obtained either
at the proper Local Office or at the Central
Office of the Land Registry, at the option of
the person bespeaking the copy.
Experience has proved that there is little
or no advantage in retaining both forms of
the evidence of title to registered land, and
for many reasons it has been found preferable
to suggest that this evidence should in all
cases take the form of a sealed copy folio, to
be bespoken either at the Local Office or at
the Central Office at the option of the person
bespeaking it.
The answer to the query contained in your
letter is, therefore, in the negative.
Yours faithfully,
(Signed),
RAYMOND SMITH,
Chief Clerk.
W. G. Wakely, Esq., Secretary,
The Incorporated Law Society of Ireland,
Solicitors' Buildings,
Four Courts, Dublin.
Advertising by Solicitors.
.
THE following Resolutions were adopted by
the Council in 1909 in reference to advertising
by Solicitors, and the Council re-affirmed
these Resolutions on the 10th February,
1915:—
RESOLVED—
" (1) That, in the opinion of the Council,
advertising by Solicitors is objection
able and unprofessional.
" (2) That the insertion by a Solicitor of his
name in a Directory, or list of Solicitors
is not advertising, provided
such
insertion be confined to an announce
ment of the Solicitor's name, address,
degrees, public appointments, and
membership or position in this Society.