The Gazette 1949-1952

March, 1950

Vol. 43 No. 9

THE GAZETTE of the INCORPORATED LAW SOC IETY OF IRELAND

President

Vice-Presidents

Secretary

T homas A O ’R eilly D ermot P. S haw

E ric A. P lunkett .

W illiam J . N orman

FOR CIRCULATION AMONG MEMBERS

Land Bill, 1949 T he President reported that he had attended to interview the Assistant Secretary o f the Depart­ ment o f Lands, accompanied by Mr. Boyd and the Secretary, on the subject o f section 23 o f the Land Bill, 1949. This section, as drafted, enables the Land Commission to purchase any interest in land in the open .market, and section 24 provides that where the Land Commission have purchased land under section 23 they may make a transfer order vesting the lands indefeasibly in fee-simple in the Land Commission. Objection had been taken to the transfer order procedure in the Bill, both from the point of view o f incumbrancers and from the point of view of the profession. The objection from the point o f view o f incumbrancers was that it seemed to be open to doubt whether an incumbrancer whose interest was overlooked would be entitled to compensation for the land acquired by the Land Commission under the transfer order procedure. The objection from the point of view op 53

MEETING OF THE COUNC IL F ebruary 23RD. The President in the Chair. Also present: Messrs. Thomas A. O’Reilly and Dermot P. Shaw, Vice-Presidents ; Messrs. Sean C) hUadh- aigh, Joseph P. Tyrrell, John P. Carrigan, Francis J. Gearty, Roger Greene, Reginald J. Nolan, James J . O’Connor, William L. Duggan, John D. O’Connell, John R. Halpin, John S. O’Connor, Henry St. J. Blake, Patrick R. Boyd, Desmond R. Counahan, Gerald J. O’Donnell, Derrick M. Martin, George A. Overend, John J. Nash, Desmond J. Mayne, Louis E. O’Dea, Joseph Barrett, Daniel O’Connell, Arthur Cox. The following was among the business transacted : Examination Results T he Council considered and adopted a report from the Court o f Examiners on the results of the First and Second Irish Examinations held in February. The Examination results are printed below.