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The Gazette of the Incorporated Law Society of Ireland.
[FEBRUARY, 1910
Vendor, and the purchase was to be carried
out by a separate lease for ever of each lot,
reserving a.rent of thirty shillings per Irish
acre. Lot 2 was sold for £1,950, and Lot 3
for £1,300. Vendor's Solicitor
furnished
title and gave searches, and the two leases
were executed in duplicate and registered.
Both lots were purchased by the same
purchaser. The conditions of sale provided
that the purchaser should pay the costs of
the leases. Vendor's Solicitor claimed to be
paid by the purchaser lease scale fee on the
rent of the two leases, registration fee on
each of the two leases, and the purchase scale
fee on each of the two fines. The purchaser's
Solicitor claimed that the scale fee on each
of the two fines should be reduced by the sum
of ten shillings per cent, negotiation fee,
contending that the lease scale fee covered
the negotiation. The Committee reported
that, in their opinion, the purchaser is not
entitled to the reduction of ten shillings per
cent, claimed on his behalf in respect of the
scale fee on the fines, and the report of the
Committee was adopted.
Education of Apprentices.
A report from the Special Educational
Committee of the Council was received, and
the recommendations of the report relative
to the Intermediate and Final Examinations
were
adopted.
These
recommendations
apply to the Final Examinations to be held
in and after January, 1911, and to the Inter
mediate Examinations to be held in and after
July, 1911, and provide that the subject of
Book-keeping be taken out of the final course
and be placed in the Intermediate course ;
that there be three papers set at the Inter
mediate Examination—one in Practice con
taining seven questions, one in Book-keeping
containing five questions, and one in Theory
containing
ten questions. At
the Final
Examination there are to be six papers in
Practice, each containing five questions ;
and three papers in Theory, each containing
ten questions, and the examination is to
occupy three days.
January 26th.
Apprentices' Debating Society.
The President informed the Council that
upon the 17th inst. he had presided at a
meeting of Solicitors' Apprentices, at which
it was resolved to form a new Debating
Society, and the rules prepared by the Council
were accepted. Arrangements were made
for the election by ballot of officers for the
session ending July next, and the meeting
adjourned till 14th February.
Examinations.
The report of the Court of Examiners upon
the January Preliminary and Final Examina
tions was adopted.
Certificates.
Four applications by Solicitors for renewal
of
their certificates were considered and
granted, a fifth was postponed for further
information.
Board of Works Deeds of Charge,
A letter was read in reply from the Treasury
Solicitor stating that, as requested by the
Council, future issues of letters from the
Accountants' Office of Board of Works,
in reference to the execution of deeds of
charge, would contain a statement that
such
deeds might be executed before a
Solicitor in addition to a Magistrate and
Clergyman.
Preliminary Examination.
A memorial from an intending apprentice
to the Lord Chancellor and Judges named in
Section 18 of the Solicitors (Irelnnd) Act,
1898, praying for exemption from the Pre
liminary Examination was considered, and
it was resolved to request their Lordships not
to accede to the prayer of the memorial.
Report upon Costs Query.
A report was received from the Costs Com
mittee upon the following query submitted
for
their decision:—A. being absolutely
entitled to certain trust funds standing in
the joint names of B. and C., as Trustees,
and being desirous of taking over the funds,
proposed to execute a Deed of Release to
B. and C. By whose Solicitor should the
Deed of Release be prepared ?
The Com
mittee reported that, in their opinion, the
Deed of Release should be prepared by the
Solicitor for the Trustees. The report of the
Committee was adopted.