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possession or occupation against

the plaintiff's.

The Master of the Rolls in giving judgment referred

to the duties of a vendor of property pending

completion as laid down in Lysaght

v.

Edwards

(1876) 2 Ch. D. 499 as follows :

" He is not entitled

to treat the estate as his own.

If he wilfully damages

or injures it, he is liable to the purchaser ; and more

than that, he is liable if he does not take reasonable

care of it." The defendant in the case under appeal

claimed to have abandoned the rubbish deposited

on the property in order to support his claim that

he had in fact given vacant possession of the pro–

perty, but this the Court held to be a breach of his

duty as vendor of the property pending completion.

Furthermore the Court held that, subject to the

rule

de minimis non carat lex,

a vendor who leaves

property of his own on premises on completion

cannot be said to give vacant possession, since by

doing so he is claiming to use the premises for his

own purposes and it was no answer to the plaintiffs'

claim to say that the vendor had committed a

breach of the trust by abandoning his property on

the premises. The Court was unable to see any

difference in essence between the existence of a

physical impediment to the enjoyment of vacant

possession, such as the abandonment of goods orl the

premises, and occupation by a trespasser against

whom the purchasers would have the right to

possession

in

law. What

the purchasers bar–

gained for was not merely the right and law but

the power to exercise that right.

It was made

clear, however, that the impediment to possession

to enable the purchasers to succeed in an action

against the vendor must be something which sub–

stantially prevents and interferes with the enjoyment

of the right of possession of a substantial part of the

property and that mere trivial impediments would

fall within the rule

de miminis non cnrat lex.

EMERGENCY POWERS ORDERS

INDEX

OBITUARY

DISTRICT JUSTICE WILLIAM MEAGHER died at his

residence, Longford House, Templemore, Co. Tip-

perary, on the yth June, 1946.

District Justice Meagher served his apprentice–

ship with the late Mr. Laurence J. Ryan of Thurles,

was admitted a solicitor in Hilary Sittings, 1911,

and practised at Templemore up to the year 1922,

when he was appointed District Justice for Leix,

Offaly and-Tipperary.

THE REGISTRY

(i) Entries will be accepted from solicitors for the

Registry

under

the

following headings :

Sec–

tion A Practices]

for

sale,

partnerships

and

assistantships

vacant;

Section

B. Practices,

partnerships and assistantships sought;

Section

C. Miscellaneous

information

required,

books,

office equipment, etc., wanted or for sale.

(2) Each

entry accepted will be made in

the appropriate

section of the register which is open for inspection

at

the Society's offices during business hours.

Each entry accepted will also be published once

in the Society's

Gazette:

If the advertiser wishes,

the entry and advertisement in the

Gazette

may be

over a box number.

(3) Charges for each entry in

the Register

(including one publication

in

the

Society's

Gazette) ;

members of the Society 3/-

for 30 words or less and id. for each additional

word over 30. Other solicitors double the rate

for members of the Society.

(4) Replies to entries

in the Register and advertisements will not be

forwarded by the Society unless postage is pre–

paid.

(5) Replies

to advertisements should be

marked with the appropriate Box No. and addressed

to the Society.

(6) The use of the Registry by

solicitors is subject to general conditions, copies

of which may be obtained from the Secretary.

AN index of the Emergency Powers Orders for

the period 1939 to 1945 has been published and

may be purchased directly from the Government VVA N T E D

Publications Sales Office, College Street, Dublin,

-_________^^__

or through any bookseller.

It is in three parts.

Part I consists of tables of Emergency Powers

Orders, i.e., tables of orders made by the Govern–

ment and tables of subsidiary orders. Part II has

tables of the effect of Emergency Powers Orders on

British Statutes, groups of Acts, Saorstat Eireann

statutes and Acts of the Oireachtas and all statutory

rules and orders. Part III contains a detailed index

to

the Emergency Powers Orders. Price

2 /-

Post free 25. zd.

'

State prices.

Prideaux, 21st Ed.; Bullen and Leake,

9th Ed.; Wylie, 2nd Ed.

(1906) or

Connor's Justice of the Peace, 2nd

Ed.; Battersby's Pocket Pleader ; Gill

on Costs.

Box No. C.I 11.