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and authorises the holder to put in hand, without

prior sanction, the re-production of portions of

Ordnance Survey Maps and plans of all scales by

means of hand bracings prepared in his own office

required for professional purposes only, and, not

intended for re-sale. Members who wish to avail

of this scheme should make application to the Assist

ant Director, Ordnance Survey Office, Phoenix

Park, Dublin.

Workmen's Compensation

(Amendment)

Act, 1948

COPIES of this Act may be purchased from the

Government Publications Office, College Street,

Dublin. By Section 4 of the Act, a person employed

under a contract of service, other than manual

labour, is brought within the provisions of the

Act unless his yearly remuneration exceeds £500.

The Act amends the Workmen's Compensation

Act, 1934, in certain other aspects.

Determination of Tenancy at will.

IN the case of Fox v Hunter-Paterson (64. T.L.R.

451) the Defendant, who was a tenant at will to

the Plaintiff pending the drawing up of a formal lease

made delay in completing the agreement.

After

various letters had passed between the parties'

solicitors,

the plaintiff's solicitor wrote a letter

in which they said :

" Failing your client's settling

this matter satisfactorily this week we have instruc

tions to take proceedings against her for possession

and damages."

It was held by the English Kings

Bench Division that this letter was a valid determina

tion of the tenancy at will.

Circuit Court Costs (Review of Taxation)

IN the case of Pierse v O'Connor (82 I.L.T.R. 32)

which was heard by Mr. Justice Dixon on Circuit

the question arose as to the proper method of appeal

in order to have the County Registrar's taxation

of a Bill of costs reviewed by the Court in pro

ceedings in the Circuit Court in which an appeal

to the High Court on Circuit is pending.

The

original proceedings were brought by way of

equity Civil Bill in the Circuit Court and were

dismissed with costs. The plaintiff appealed to the

High Court on Circuit.

The defendant's costs

of the dismiss were lodged for taxation by the

County Registrar, but before the date of taxation

the defendant sought to withdraw the Bill and to

substitute another Bill which

included certain

witnesses' expenses which had been omitted from

the first Bill by a mistake. The County Registrar

refused to allow the second Bill to be substituted

on the ground of the decision in O'Meara v. d'Esterre

and Cox (21 L.R.Ir. 135). The Defendant appealed

to the High Court on Circuit considering that

as seisin of the case had been transferred to the

High Court when the appeal was taken that Court

was the proper Court to consider an Appeal against

the decision of the County Registrar on the taxation

of the costs. A preliminary objection was taken

by the plaintiff that the Appeal against the taxation

of Circuit Court costs by the County Registrar

should have been brought in the Circuit Court,

and not in the High Court. Mr. Justice Dixon

held that the taxation of the costs was a Circuit

Court taxation, and that any review should be

under Order 40 of the Rules of the Circuit Court,

and that the Circuit Court had not lost seisin of the

matter by the service of the Notice of Appeal

to the High Court on Circuit against the dismiss

of the proceedings by the Circuit Court Judge.

Circuit Court Appeals fees.

THE President of the High Court has made an order

with effect from ist January, 1949, directing as

follows :—

1. No notice of appeal to the High Court shall

be accepted unless

(a)

it bears a io/— judicature

stamp, impressive or adhesive or

(b)

there is

lodged with it for transmission to the High

Court a postal order for io/- payable to the

Revenue Commissioners.

2. The practice of accepting notices of appeal

without prior payment of the Court fees

shall be discontinued.

Notice to quit given to Probate Judge.

BY Section 15 of the Probate Act (Ireland) 1859, i*

is provided that after the decease of any person dying

intestate, and until Letters of Administration shall

be granted in respect of his estate and effects, the

personal estate and effects of such deceased person

shall be vested in the judge of the Court of Probate

for the time being, in the same manner and to the

same extent as theretofore vested in the ordinary.

Section 9 of the English Administration of Estates

Act, 1925 contains a provision to the same effect.

In Smith and Another v. Mather and Another

(1948 I. All E. R. 704.) a tenant of a dwelling-

house which was within the Rent Restrictions Act

died intestate, while the contractual tenancy was

subsisting. No letters of f.dministration were taken

out, and the landlord served a

i otice to quit on

the President of the Probate, Divorce and Admiralty

Division of the High Court in whom the tenant's

interest had vested under Section 9 of the Administra

tion of Estates Act 1925, and after the expiration

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