226 / 364
again jointly with the General Council of Pro
vincial Solicitors and with the kind permission and
co-operation of the Southern Law Association.
The subjects will be the Succession Act, 1965,
Landlord and Tenant, Town Planning Law and
Practice.
Further details will be announced later. All our
members will be fully circularised in due course.
The
following
are
detqils
of
forthcoming
lectures : —
June 30th—Land Commission ' Practice
r.bv. Mr.
M. G. Gavagan, Chief Examiner
of Titles
and Public Trustee.
July 28th—Criminal Law Practice by Mr. Herman
Good.
September
29th—Office
accounts
systems
for
Solicitors.
October 27th—Insurance and Estate Duty by
Mr. A. K. Burns, A.C.A., an Insurance expert.
COUNTY CAVAN SOLICITORS
The following are the Officers and Committee
of the above Association for the year 1966/67 :-—
President, George V. Maloney; Hon. Secretary
and Treasurer, Patrick H. O'Doherty; Committee,
Thomas J. Fitzpatrick, Patrick Cusack, Stephen
J. Gannon, James Smith, Patrick J. O'Reilly, T.
C. Vance.
"THE LAW AND THE PROFITS",
Mr. Patrick O'Donnell, solicitor, T.D., asked
the Minister for Justice to state the actual ex
penditure for the years 1939-40 and 1965-66 and
the estimated expenditure for 1966-67 in respect
of (1) Courts of Justice (a) total receipts from
fee stamps, percentages and othe appropriations
in aid,
(b)
total expenses
(other
than
judical
salaries and expenses), and
(c)
judicial salaries
and
expenses;
and
(2)
Land Registry
and
Registry of Deeds (a) total receipts from fee stamps
and other appropriations in aid, and
(b)
total
expenses.
The Minister for Justice, in reply, stated that
pending the completion and audit of the Ap
propriation Account for the year 1965-66, it is not
possible to furnish final figures in respect of that
year and approximate figures only of expenditure
and receipts for that year are included in the
statement.
The following is the statement: —
1.
Courts
1939/40 1965/66 1966/67
(a)
Receipts
from
fee
stamps,
percentages
£
£
£
and
other
appropri
ations in aid of Vote 101,160 283,222 430,250
(b)
Expenses
(other
than
judical
salaries
and
pensions)
............ 166,346 587,489 623,450
(c)
Judicial
salaries
and
pensions
............
92,136 225,058 235,000
(d)
Expenses
borne
on
other Votes
(estim
ated)
...............
2. Land Registry and
Registry of Deeds
(a)
Receipts
from
fee
stamps and other ap
propriations in aid of
Vote
...............
(b)
Expenses
............
(c)
Expenses
borne
on
15,462
107,838
124.567
78,237 128,167 !25 ;(i86
31,910 204,078 315,000
45,527 204,768 257,930
CORRESPONDENCE
SALE TO THE FORESTRY DEPARTMENT ...
The following letter was received by the Society
from a member :
There is a matter that we would like to bring to the
notice of
the Council of the Law Society, and that is the
practice of the Department of Lands when purchasing
mountain
land for reafforestation purposes of getting
the Vendor to sign an agreement to sell to the Depart
ment of Lands, and in such agreement accepting re
sponsibility for his own costs of making title.
The reason we are writing about this is
that lately
a client of ours entered into an Agreement with the
Department of Lands to sell for the sum of £40 a
piece of mountain land. He undertook to be responsible
for his costs of making title. The Department of Lands
were not satisfied with a straight
transfer from vhe
Vendor to the Minister, they required the note as to
equities
to be discharged, or evidence given
to
them
to enable them discharge the note as to equities. We
protested to the Department of Lands about this, and
stated
that having
regard
to
the
smallness of
the
purchase money the Minister should agree to pay our
costs of making
title as
if we had
to charge our
client a proper fee for making title to the lands in
question he would get very little out of his purchase
money. Of course it boils down to the fact that we
cannot charge him a proper fee at all, and it means
that we do about 99 per cent of the work in this sale
for nothing.
We think that the Department should not get a Vendor
to enter into a contract for the sale of any land for any
purpose without giving the Vendor an opportunity of
discussing the matter with his solicitor. And in fact we