The Gazette 1946-49

Vol. 41 No. 5

November, 1947

THE GAZETTE of the INCORPORATED LAW SOCIETY OF IRELAND

President : H. ST. J. BLAKE

Vice-Tresidents : WILLIAM L. DUGGAN JOHN J, BOLGER

Secretary: ERIC A. PLUNKETT

FOR CIRCULATION AMONG MEMBERS

MEETINGS OF THE COUNCIL OCTOBER znd. The President in the chair: Also present: Mr. William L. Duggan, Vice-President ; Messrs. J. J. Smyth, P. R. Boyd, P. F. O'Reilly, T. A. O'Reilly, Peter O'Connor, Roger Greene, Scan O hUadhaigh, W. S. Huggard, L. E. O'Dea, -J. B. Hamill, W. J. Norman, J. Travers Wolfe, H. P. Mayne, D. O'Connell, W. S. Hayes, J. P. Tyrrell, N. S. Gaffney, J. R. Quirke, D. P. Shaw, J. P. Carrigan, Hugh O'Donnell, Arthur Cox, G. A. Overend, R. J. Nolan. The following were among the matters discussed : Land Act, 1931, Section 31 (3) : Land Act, 1933, Section 48 The Secretary reported that he had received a letter from a member pointing out that in a case in which lands had been vested in a tenant by a Vesting Order in the Land Commission he was unable to register a deed of transfer, owing to the operation of Section 31 (3) of the Land Act, 1931 and Section 48 of the Land Act, 1933. No folio had been opened in the Land Registry owing

to the accumulation of Vesting Orders in the Land Commission. It was ordered that representations should be made to the Secretary of the Irish Land Commission for the repeal or amendment of the sections, and that it should be enacted that in such cases any transfer of the lands should continue to be registered in the Registry of Deeds until the opening of a folio for the holdings in the Land Registry. Certified Copy Deeds A member requested the opinion of the Council on the following facts : A contract for the sale of part of the lands comprised in a lease provided that the purchaser should be entitled to a certified copy of a lease. The vendor's solicitor furnished what pur– ported to be a copy certified by another solicitor who has acted some years ago in the matter. In this document the lands were described by reference to a map thereon but no map appeared on the copy. It was stated that there was no map endorsed on or attached to the copy lease when the copy was certified by the previous solicitor acting in the matter. Query: (i) is the purchaser's solicitor entitled to a certified copy of the map in question ? (2) If so is the solicitor who furnished the copy