The Gazette 1949-1952

Irish Legal Terms (No. 1) Order, 1947, price 6d; and Irish Legal Terms (No. 2) Order, 1948, price 3d; copies of which can be obtained from the Government Publications Office, 3 College Street, Dublin. OBITUARY M r . A ndrew D. C omyn , Solicitor, died at his residence, Loughrea, Co. Galway, on ^ r d May, 1949. Mr. Comyn served his apprenticeship with the late Mr. Joseph T. Maxwell o f Nth. Gt. George’s Street, Dublin, was admitted in Hilary sittings of 1896, and practised at Loughrea. REGISTER Section B S olicitor , experienced all branches City and Country practice, including conducting cases in Court, desires Assistantship, City or Country office; disengaged July. Box No. B. 143. Section C F or S ale : 4 drawer steel filing cabinet in perfect condition, quarto size. Inspection arranged. Apply Messrs. Fletcher, Sheedy & Co., Solicitors, Mountrath, Leix. W anted : (a) Digest of Irish cases, 1928-38. (b) Landlord and Tenant Act, 1931 (Kingsmil Moore). (c) Judicature Practice (Wylie). M. J. Kenny, Solicitor, Molesworth Street, Dublin.

older nisi on 28th February, but he had not applied to the Court to obtain a charging order thereon under section 69 o f the Solicitors Act, 1932, which is similar to section 3 o f the Legal Practitioners (Ireland) Act, 1876. The court made the garnishee order absolute without reference to the solicitor’s lien for costs. On appeal, it was held that a solicitor has a lien on property which is in his possession, and where a sum o f money is recovered through his professional exertions he does not obtain a charge on the money for his costs, but merely the right to apply to the court for such a charge. As the solicitor had not applied for a charging order before the application to have the garnishee order made absolute, he was not entitled to an inquiry as to the amount due to h im ; and the judgment creditors were entitled to have the garnishee order made absolute. INDEX TO THE STATUTES C omprises the legislation enacted in the period December, 1922 to December, 1948, and with Chronological Tables showing the effect on Pre- Union Irish Statutes, British Statutes, Saorstat Eireann Statutes and Acts o f the Oireachtas. Price 20s., postage 8d. IRISH LEGAL TERMS T he attention of apprentices studying for the Second Irish examination is directed to the following orders :

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