The Gazette 1952-1955

Vol. 46 No. 8

February, 1953

THE GAZETTE oj INCORPORATED LAW SOCIETY OF IRELAND

President J ames R . Q uirke

Vice-Presidents J ohn C arrigan J ames J . O ’C onnor

Secretary E ric A . P lunkett

FOR CIRCULATION AMONG MEMBERS

Thomas A. O’Reilly, John Maher, Peter E . O’Connell, Francis J. Lanigan, John J. Nash, Reginald J. Nolan, Patrick R. Boyd, Patrick F. O’Reilly, John R. Halpin, George G. Overend, Ralph Walker, William J. Norman, Desmond J. Collins, John J. Sheil, Joseph Barrett, Charles J. Downing, Henry St. J. Blake, Desmond J. Mayne, Dermot P. Shaw, Arthur Cox, Cornelius J. Daly. The following was among the business transacted : Lease. Incidence o f costs O n a report from a Committee on a submission to arbitration, the Council held that a lease of property for a term o f 99 years, at a fine o f £ 1,0 10 subject to the yearly rent o f £50, the lease contain­ ing a covenant by the lessee to expend not less than £2,000 in the erection of buildings, was substantially a sale, and that in accordance with the decision o f Mr. Justice Dixon in Simms-Clarke v. Ilet Ltd., reported in the Society’s G azette for July/August, 1952, the lessee, in the absence

IMPORTANT If you have not already taken out and stamped your practising certifi­ cate you should do so immediately. The final date for stamping certificates in time was 5th February, 1953. A late certificate must be produced to the Society for noting within one month o f stamping and will be effective for the purpose o f taxation o f costs only from the date o f such production. MEETINGS OF THE COUNCIL 29-ra J anuary , 1953. The President in the Chair. Also present: Messrs. John Carrigan and James J. O’Connor, Vice-Presidents; Messrs. Sean O hUadhaigh, Joseph P. Tyrrell, Francis J. Gearty,