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Vol. 38
No. 3
July
1944
THE GAZETTE
of the
INCORPORATED LAW SOCIETY OF IRELAND
f'resident
.'
LOUIS
E.
O'DEA
ROBERT A. MACAULAY
ARTHUR COX
Secretary:
ERIC
A.
PLUNKETT
FOR CIRCULATION AMONG MEMBERS
MEETING OF THE COUNCIL.
30TH JUNE, 1944. The President in the chair.
Present: Messrs. R. A. Macaulay, A. Cox, Vice-
Presidents ;
J. J. Smyth,
J. Travers Wolfe,
P. R. Boyd, C. G. Stapleton, W. S. Hayes,
J. R. Quirice, F. J. W. Barley, W. J. Norman,
H. P. Mayne, G. A. Overend, D. O'Connell,
A. S. Merrick, P. O'Connor, John J. Dunne,
J. P. Carrigan, H. St. J. Blake, P. F. O'Reilly,
M. E. Knight, J. B. Hamill, Roger Greene.
The following were among the matters dealt
with :—
Land Registry Practice.
THE meeting considered the report of a Committee
on the memorandum recently issued from the
Land Registry dealing with matters requiring
particular attention by solicitors. This memo
randum stated that it is desirable that documents
should, so far as possible, be lodged in the Central
Office by town agents of solicitors instead of being
lodged with the Local Registrars or sent to the
Central Office by post. The Committee in its
report stated that this suggestion is not a require
ment of the rules and that solicitors are still en
titled to lodge documents in the first instance in
the Local Registries. As it appears that compliance
with the suggestion would cause inconvenience
both to country solicitors and to their Dublin
agents the Committee recommended that a depu
tation from the Council should interview the
Registrar of Titles with reference to the matter.
The report of the Committee was adopted. On a
report from the same Committee the Secretary
was directed to interview the Registrar regarding
the new requirement that a certificate of the
P.L.V. of lands must be lodged with dealings for
registration.
Land Registration Fee Order 1944.
THE Council considered a report from the same
Committee on the above Order and the resdlu-
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