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The Gazette of the Incorporated Law Society of Ireland.
[JULY, 1910
appearing before an Arbitrator upon behalf
of
several owners and occupiers whose
lands were compulsorily acquired. The re
muneration allowed by the Arbitrator was
apparently at the rate of three guineas per
day to the Solicitor, without taking into
account the number of clients for whom he
appeared, which resulted in the remuneration
allowed being only three shillings and four-
pence for all the work connected with the
case of each client. The matter was referred
to the Costs Committee, with authority to
consult Counsel.
Apprentices' Debating Society.
" The Industrial Future of Ireland " was
the subject selected for the medal to be
awarded by the Council for Composition.
Certificate
An application by a Solicitor for liberty
to renew his annual certificate was submitted
and granted.
Court of Examiners.
A report from the Court of Examiners
upon two applications by Law Clerks for
leave to be bound under Section 16 was
submitted, and it was resolved that both
applications be granted.
Costs Committee.
The answers of the Costs Committee to the
following
queries were
submitted
and
adopted :—
A,
an owner of certain premises in the
City of Belfast, on which there is a mort
gage
affecting
her
interest
for
£2,400,
verbally agreed, through a friend, to grant
or sell her interest therein to
B
on the
following terms, viz. :—
B
to pay to
A
£100
in cash and to take the premises subject to
the mortgage for £2,400, and to obtain a
conveyance or fee farm grant subject to the
annual rent of £350.
A
holds the premises
under a sub-fee farm grant; she is indemnified
against payment of any rent by other portions
of the premises in the original grant, the
whole premises being
liable
to £60 per
annum.
Queries.—(1) Whose province
is
it
to
prepare, complete, and register the fee farm
grant or conveyance in fee in duplicate.
(2) Who is the proper party to pay for such
deeds, and what are
the costs properly
payable ?
Answers.—The Solicitor for the grantor i=
entitled to prepare the grant and counterpart,
and the costs of the Solicitors of both parties
are payable by the grantee.
Such costs
should be drawn under Schedule I., Part II ,
Table II., and the rules thereunder of the
General Order made under the Solicitors
Remuneration Act.
June 29th.
Special Examiners.
The Council reappointed Mr. Charles H.
Denroche, B.A., LL.D., R.U.I., Solicitor ;
and
Mr. Frank V. Gordon, B.A., Ex-Scholar
(T.C.D.), Solicitor, as Special Examiners for
1911
Commissioner of National Education.
A letter was read from Mr. David M.
Moriarty, Solicitor,
thanking the Council
for their congratulations upon his appoint
ment as a Commissioner of National Educa
tion in Ireland.
Wood Pavement outside Courts.
Attention having been called
to
the
difficulty of conducting the business of some
of the Courts owing to the noise of traffic,
it was resolved to make application to the
Corporation of Dublin to direct the laying
down of wood pavement in the streets around
the Four Courts and Metropolitan Police
Courts.
Examinations.
An application by a Law Clerk under
Section 18 for a modified preliminary exami
nation was considered, and it was resolved
that the application be not opposed.
Increment Duty.
A report was adopted from the Costs
Committee with reference to the query sub
mitted by the Coleraine Branch of the Derry
and Antrim Solicitors' Association, asking
whether payment of increment duty must be
discharged by a Vendor before a Purchaser
can be asked to complete a sale. The report
stated that the proper course of procedure
was for the Purchaser's Solicitor to hand the
deed to the Vendor's Solicitor to have it
executed in the usual way by the Vendor,