The Gazette 1952-1955

Vol. 46 No. 9

March, 1953

T H E G A Z E T T E o f the INCORPORATED LAW SOCIETY OF IRELAND

President J ames R. Q uirke

Vice-Presidents

Secretary

E ric A. P lunkett

J ohn C arrigan

J ames J . O’C onnor

FO R C IR C U L A T IO N A M O N G M E M B E R S

MEETINGS OF THE COUNCIL 19TH F ebruary , 195,3. The President in the Chair. Also present: Messrs. John Carrigan and James J. O’Connor, Vice-Presidents, Thomas A. O’Reilly, Peter E. O’Connell, John Maher, Francis J. Gearty, Joseph Tyrrell, Desmond R. Counahan, Patrick R. Boyd, John R. Halpin, Desmond J. Collins, Derrick M. Martin, Desmond J. Mayne, Niall S. Gaffney, Ralph J. Walker, Henry St. J. Blake, Dermot P. Shaw, Cornelius J. Daly, John J. Nash, John J. Sheil, William J. Norman, Gerald J. O’Donnell, Arthur Cox, Sean O hUadhaigh, Joseph Barrett, Maurice M. Power. The following was among the business trans­ acted :— Circuit Court Rules, 1950 T he Council considered and adopted a report from a Committee on suggested amendments to the Circuit Court Rules based largely on replies received

from local Bar Associations to a circular from the Society. It was ordered that a copy o f the report should be sent to the Society’s representatives on the Circuit Court Rules Committee with a request that it should be submitted to that Committee. Expenses o f obtaining copies o f documents on sale o f lands. M embers wrote saying that they had been advised by Council many years ago that a note as to equities is equivalent to an incumbrance and that where registered lands are sold the vendor must produce at his own expense evidence that no equities exist. Local conditions o f sale provide that evidence not in the vendor’s possession must be obtained by the purchaser at his own expense and the vendor’s solicitor, under these conditions, will not supply a document such as a certified copy of a purchase agreement or a fair rent order except at the pur­ chaser’s expense. They asked whether the Council approved o f such conditions o f sale. A Committee which had considered the matter reported that