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Negotiation fee on sale of lands

THE Council considered a query from

-a

member

on the following facts : Registered land, in respect

of which equities had been discharged, was put

up for sale by public auction. The purchaser attended

at the auction, purchased the land for £5,000 and

signed conditions of sale. He subsequently went

to his solicitor who advised him that the conditions

were in one respect unsatisfactory and subsequently

succeeded by negotiation with the vendor's solicitor

in having a paragraph added clarifying the position

as regards the crops growing on the land, which

were included in the sale, and also obtaining an

extension of the time for sending in requisitions

and for closing. The alterations were initialled

by the vendor. The proper costs to be charged

will be half the scale fee in the case of unregistered

land.

QUERY :

Is the purchaser's solicitor entitled to

the fee for negotiating the sale or must the scale

fee be reduced by the negotiation fee?

OPINION OF THE COUNCIL :

The solicitor

is

entitled to charge the negotiation fee.

District Court Rules Committee

MR. PATRICK F. O'REILLY was re-appointed one

of the Society's representatives on this Committee.

Applications under Section 47

THE Council considered applications from nine

solicitors, verified by affidavit in each case, for

liberty to take out their practising certificates for

the current year.

Each application was granted

subject to the payment of the current licence duty.

JANUARY 29111.

The President in the chair :

Also

present: Mr. James R. Quirke, Vice-President;

Messrs.

John B. Hamill, William

J. Norman,

Joseph P. Tyrrell, Patrick F. O'Reilly, Thomas A.

O'Reilly, Henry St. J. Blake, Henry P. Mayne,

William S. Hayes, Arthur Cox, Joseph Barrett,

Roger Greene.

The

following

was

among

the

business

transacted:

Applications under Section 47

THE Council considered applications from three

solicitors, verified by affidavit in each case, for

liberty to take out their practising certificates for

the current year. Each application was granted

subject to the payment of the current licence duty.

As the Council will not meet again until February

26th, a sub-Committee was appointed to deal with

48

applications under Section 47, which may be re

ceived before the date of the next meeting.

SPECIAL GENERAL MEETING OF

THE SOCIETY

A SPECIAL GENERAL MEETING of the Society was

held on THURSDAY, 2gth JANUARY,

1948.

The

President

in

the

chair: Also present: Messrs.

James

R.

Quirke,

Vice-President;

Joseph

Barrett,

H.

St.

J. Blake,

John

J. Bolger,

Arthur Cox, Roger Greene,

J.

B.

Hamill,

Wm. S. Hayes, H. P. Mayne, W. J. Norman, Daniel

O'Connell, P. F. O'Reilly, T. A. O'Reilly, J. P.

Tyrrell, D. Moran, Seosamh O Cuinneaghain,

George T. Eason, C. Gore-Grimes, J. J. Hickey,

J. S. Sealy, C. B. W. Boyle, O. G. Fry.

The Agenda for the meeting was as follows :

1. Appointment of five persons to be members of

the Nominating Committee of the Cultural

and Educational Panel pursuant to Section 22

of the Seanad Electoral (Panel Members) Act,

1947.

2. Proposal of two persons for nomination to the

Cultural and Educational Panel pursuant to

Section 27 of the Seanad Electoral (Panel

Members) Act, 1947.

It was proposed, seconded and unanimously

resolved that the following members of the Society

be appointed to act on the Nomination Committee

for the Cultural and Educational Panel :

Messrs.

Scan O hUadhaigh, John B. Hamill, Arthur Cox,

Henry St. J. Blake, Daniel O'Connell.

It was proposed, seconded and unanimously

resolved that the following members of the Society

be proposed for nomination to the Cultural and

Educational Panel:

Senator Louis E. O'Dea,

Mr. Patrick F. O'Reilly.

SEANAD ELECTIONS

As stated above, Senator Louis E. O'Dea of Eyre

Square, Galway, and Mr. Patrick F. O'Reilly of 8

South Great George's Street, Dublin, both past

Presidents of the Society and now members of the

Council, have been proposed by the Society for

nomination to the Cultural and Educational Panel

at the forthcoming election.

It would be greatly

in the interests of the profession that Senator O'Dea

and Mr. O'Reilly should be elected to the Seanad

and it is hoped that members of the profession

throughout the country will use their influence tc

obtain support for their candidature.