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Vol. 50
No. 8
FEBRUARY,
1957
THE GAZETTE
of the
INCORPORATED LAW SOCIETY OF IRELAND
PruiJmt
NIALL S. GAFFNEY
Vict-freiidtnts
DESMOND J. COLLINS
CHARLES J. DOWNING
Suritay
ERIC A. PLUNKETT
FOR CIRCULATION AMONG MEMBERS
SEANAD ELECTION
THE COUNCIL have nominated Mr. Arthur Cox as
the Society's candidate for election on the Cultural
and Educational Panel. Mr Cox is a member of the
outgoing Seanad on which he has served with
distinction. The electorate will consist of the new
Bail, the outgoing Seanad and the members of
County Councils and Corporations throughout the
country.
The election will be conducted on the
proportional representation system and
every prefer
ence down to the lowest
will be vital.
It is unnecessary to stress the importance to the
profession of having a member in the Seanad who
will express not alone the viewpoint of the profess
ions as a whole but the particular interests of the
legal profession on legislative matters.
The Council confidently appeal to all members
to use their influence in having him elected.
MEETINGS
OF THE COUNCIL.
JANUARY lyTH : The President in the Chair. Also
present Messrs. Desmond J. Mayne, John R.
Halpin, Francis X. Burke, Louis Walsh, Patrick
R. Boyd, Desmond J. Collins, John Carrigan,
Ralph J. Walker, Cornelius J. Daly, John J. Shell,
Robert McD. Taylor, Joseph P. Tyrrell, John J.
Nash, William J. V. Comerford, Charles J. Downing,
George A. Nolan, Terence De Vere White, James
R. Quirke, Reginald J. Nolan, Thomas A. O'Reilly,
Patrick F. O'Reilly, Dermot P. Shaw.
The following was among the business transacted.
Long Lease not at rack rent.
A LESSOR made a lease of a dwelling house and
garden in a provincial town for a term of 21 years
from 1958 at a yearly rent of £45 over and above
rates and taxes.
There are no unusual covenants
or conditions. The lessee held under a lease subject
to the same rent which was due to expire in 1958,
and purchased the lessee's interest in 1953 for £450.
The rateable value of the premises is £19 los. od.
The parties stated that the lease was made pursuant
to a personal agreement and not under the Landlord
& Tenant Act, 1931 as amended, and wished to
know whether the lessor's costs should be charged
under the higher or lower scale. The lessee at no
time asserted any right to renewal under the Land-
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