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March,
1953
Vol. 46
No. 9
T H E G A Z E T T E
o f the
INCORPORATED LAW SOCIETY OF IRELAND
President
J
ames
R.
Q
uirke
Vice-Presidents
Secretary
J
ohn
C
arrigan
E
ric
A.
P
lunkett
J
ames
J . O’C
onnor
FO R C IR C U L A T IO N A M O N G M E M B E R S
MEETINGS OF THE COUNCIL
19TH F
ebruary
, 195,3.
The President in the Chair.
Also present: Messrs. John Carrigan and James J.
O’Connor, Vice-Presidents, Thomas A. O’Reilly,
Peter E. O’Connell, John Maher, Francis J. Gearty,
Joseph Tyrrell, Desmond R. Counahan, Patrick
R. Boyd, John R. Halpin, Desmond J. Collins,
Derrick M. Martin, Desmond J. Mayne, Niall S.
Gaffney, Ralph J. Walker, Henry St. J. Blake,
Dermot P. Shaw, Cornelius J. Daly, John J. Nash,
John J. Sheil, William J. Norman, Gerald J.
O’Donnell, Arthur Cox, Sean O hUadhaigh, Joseph
Barrett, Maurice M. Power.
The following was among the business trans
acted :—
Circuit Court Rules, 1950
T
he
Council considered and adopted a report from
a Committee on suggested amendments to the
Circuit Court Rules based largely on replies received
from local Bar Associations to a circular from the
Society. It was ordered that a copy o f the report
should be sent to the Society’s representatives on
the Circuit Court Rules Committee with a request
that it should be submitted to that Committee.
Expenses o f obtaining copies o f documents
on sale o f lands.
M
embers
wrote saying that they had been advised
by Council many years ago that a note as to equities
is equivalent to an incumbrance and that where
registered lands are sold the vendor must produce
at his own expense evidence that no equities exist.
Local conditions o f sale provide that evidence not
in the vendor’s possession must be obtained by the
purchaser at his own expense and the vendor’s
solicitor, under these conditions, will not supply
a document such as a certified copy of a purchase
agreement or a fair rent order except at the pur
chaser’s expense. They asked whether the Council
approved o f such conditions o f sale. A Committee
which had considered the matter reported that