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Vol. 38
No. 9
March
I94S
THE GAZETTE
of tk
e
INCORPORATED LAW SOCIETY OF IRELAND
PreiiJeHt
:
PATRICK F. o'sEILLT
Vice-PrtsUcHts :
WILLIAM S. HUGGARD
HUGH P. O'DONNELL
Secretary:
ERIC
A.
PLUNKETT
FOR CIRCULATION AMONG MEMBERS
MEETINGS OF THE COUNCIL.
FEBRUARY 2nd. The President in the chair.
Present Mr. W. S. Huggard, Vice-President;
Messrs. W. S. Hayes, W. J. Norman, S. 0 hUadh-
aigh, D. O'Connell, F. J. W. Darley, J. R. Quirke,
E. M. FitzGerald, C. G. Stapleton, G. A. Overend,
P. R. Boyd, J. J. Dunne, W. L. Duggan, J. J.
Bolger, H. St. J. Blake, Roger Greene, J. J.
Smyth, J. Travers Wolfe, A. Cox, J. B. Hamill,
H. P. Mayne, Peter O'Connor, J. Gillespic.
The following were among the matters dealt
with:
Local Registration of Title (Ireland) Act, 1891,
S. 87 (3).
THE Council considered a report from a Com
mittee on the practice adopted in the Land
Registry of refusing to accept for registration a
transfer from a personal representative to a bene
ficiary under section 87 of the Act unless the
personal representative has first been registered
for the purpose of administration. The object of
the Registry in adopting this practice is appar
ently to ensure that fees will be collected at some
stage of the transaction. Having regard to the
established principle whereby the personal rep
resentatives can deal with lands without being
themselves registered, and to section 87 (3), which
enacts that no fee shall be payable on any transfer
under the section by personal representatives to
a person beneficially entitled to land, the Com
mittee recommended that the Society should
assist in having the question brought before the
judge for his ruling. The report of the Committee
was adopted.
Trustee Acts.
THE Council considered a report from a Committee
on a letter from the Department of Justice re
questing their views on proposed
legislation
consolidating and amending the law relating to
trustee investments, and as to any amendments
generally in the law relating to trustees which
might seem appropriate. The report of the Com
mittee referred to the recent suggestion that a
Law Reform Advisory Committee should be
appointed to consider and report periodically
on proposals to reform and consolidate the law,
and stated that in its opinion the matters referred
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