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The Gazette of the Incorporated Law Society of Ireland.
[MARCH, 1919
MR. ROBERT POWELL, Solicitor, died upon
the 17th February, 1919, at his residence,
Druid Hill, Killiney, Co. Dublin.
Mr. Powell served his apprenticeship with
Mr.
John W. F. Garvey, Ballina ;
was
admitted
in Hilary Sittings,
1904,
and
practised as a member of the firm of Messrs.
W. J. Shannon & Co., at 19 Upper Ormond
Quay, Dublin.
MR. THOMAS M. KENNY, Solicitor, died
upon the 27th February, 1919, at Salerno,
Galway.
Mr. Ivenny served his apprenticeship with
his father, the late Mr. Matthew Kenny,
17 Middle Gardiner Street, Dublin ;
was
admitted
in Trinity Sittings, 1880, and
practised (in partnership with Mr. James W.
Blake, under the style of Messrs. Blake and
Kenny), at Galway.
New Solicitors.
THE
following
February, 1919 :-
Name
Byron, Timothy
Dorian, Michael
Marron, Patrick
McD.mntll, Edmond
Kobtrt
New Members.
THE
following joined the Society during
February, 1919 :—
James G. 0'Connor, 44 Westland Row,
Dublin.
Patrick F. Quinlan, 68 Middle Abbey
Street, Dublin.
Commissioner to Administer Oaths.
THE Lord Chancellor has appointed the
following to be a Commissioner to administer
Oaths :—
David W. J. Browne, Clerk of Petty-
Sessions, Mitchelstown.
were
admitted
during
Served Apprenticeship to
Thomas j. Deering, 12 Lr.
Ormond Quay, Dublin.
F. H. Hall, Cork.
Edward PlieUn, Carrick-
macross.
W. J. Shannon, 19 Upper
Ormond Quay, Dublin.
Proceedings in Minor Matters.
THE Lord Chancellor has made the following
Order
relating
to proceedings
in Minor
matters :—
I,
the Right Honourable Sir James
Henry Mussen Campbell, Baronet, Lord
Chancellor of Ireland, in pursuance of the
powers reserved to me under Order V.,
Rule 2, of the Rules of the Supreme Court
(Ireland), 1905, and of all other powers
hereunto me enabling, hereby Order and
direct that the Order of the Lord Chancellor
dated the '25th day of June, 1915, be and
the same is hereby revoked :
And I do
further Order and direct that in all cases
in which proceedings to make Minors Wards
of Court are instituted by Originating
Summons
instead
of
by Originating
Petition, the Originating Summons shall
be marked for the Lord Chancellor.
(Signed),
JAMES H. CAMPBELL,
('.
Dated this 4th day of February, 1919.
Recent Legal Decisions.
Emergency Legislation—Increase of Rent and
Mortgage Interest (War Restrictions) Act,
1915.
Section 1, Sub-Section 1, of the above Act
enacts that " Where the rent of a dwelling-
" house to which this Act applies has been
" since the commencement of the present
" war, or is hereafter during the continuance
" of this Act increased above the standard
" rent, as hereinafter defined, the amount by
" which the rent exceeds the amount which
" would have been payable had the increase
" not been made shall notwithstanding any
" agreement to the contrary be irrecoverable."
The Act applies in Ireland to a house or a
part of a house let as a separate dwelling-
house where either the annual amount of the
standard rent or the rateable value does not
exceed £26
(see Sec.
2, Sub-Sec. 2
(c).
" Standard Rent " is defined as the rent at
which the house was let on the 3rd August,
1914, or where the house was not let on that
date, the rent at which it was let before that
date, or where the house was first let after