The Gazette 1909-10

AUG., 1909]

The Gazette of the Incorporated Law Society of Ireland.

87

payment by tenants of their purchase annuities, will retard building operations and the develop ment of land near our cities and towns, and o-enerally will cause a serious depreciation of the value of all landed property in Ireland. SOLICITORS' BUILDINGS, FOUR COURTS, DUBLIN, July, 1909. Recent Decisions affecting Solicitors. (Notes ofdecisions, whether in reported or unreported cases, of interest to Solicitors are invited from Members?} HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE IN ENGLAND. CHANCERY DIVISION. (Before Eve, J.) Estate of the Right Hon. Edivard Henry Stuart, Earl of Darnley, deceased. Clifton v. Darnley. June 16th, 1909.— Costs of Sale—Irish Land Act, 1903— Percentage remuneration. THE estate of the late Earl of Darnley being administered in the English Chancery Division, Messrs. Stevenson Arthur Blackwood and Lionel Henry Gust, the trustees of the will of the late Earl, were authorized by an Order of the said Court to carry out the sale of the Irish estates to the tenants under the Land Act of 1903. By a provisional agreement, dated March 30, 1907, made between the trustees and Messrs. Montgomery and Chaytor, Solicitors, the costs of the sale were fixed at a percentage of two per cent, on the gross purchase moneys amounting to sixty-five thousand pound's. This agreement came before the Master in Chancery for approval and was referred by him to the Judge. The matter was argued before Mr. Justice Eve, and after hearing Counsel for the appli cants, and also for the plaintiff and defendant in the suit, the Judge confirmed the agreement for payment of the two per cent., the solicitors to be paid in addition such outlay as was excluded in the scale of the Incorporated Law Society of Ireland as set out in their Memorandum of the aoth of Februar}-, 1904. The Costs of all parties allowed. (Communicated by Messrs. Montgomery and Chaytor, Solicitors).

Land Purchase Practice. THE attention of the Estates Commissioners having been drawn by a firm of solicitors to delay in returning deeds lodged in the Com missioners' office in connexion with the transfers of tenants' interests in holdings, pending vesting, the following reply has been received by the firm :— ESTATES COMMISSIONERS' OFFICES, DUBLIN, i^thjuly, 1909. SIRS,—In reply to your letter of the roth instant, in reference to the delay in returning certain Deeds of Assignment, I am directed by the Estates Commissioners to say that arrangements are being made so that transfers of tenants' interests in holdings, pending vesting, will be more expeditiously noted in future, and the documents returned to the Solicitors with as little delay as possible. The delay in noting assignments has been mostly due to the enormous number of purchase agreements executed in anticipation of the recent revision of the Bonus, and lodged in this office. Purchase agreements representing over ten millions were lodged in one fortnight, and the identification of holdings referred to in assignments had to be deferred in a number of cases until particulars of the purchase agreements had been entered on the Record of Proceedings in reference to each estate, and the necessary entries in connexion with each purchasing tenant made in the books of the Collecting department, and some time had to elapse before the Purchase agreements could be identified and the necessary endorsements made thereon. Your obedient Servant, JOHN T. DRENNAN. Housing of the Working Classes (Ireland) Act, 1908. ADAPTATION ORDER. HOUSING OF THE WORKING CLASSES (IRELAND) ACTS, 1890 TO 1908. By the Lord Lieutenant and Privy Council of Ireland. ABERDEEN. WHEREAS it is enacted by section 6 of the Housing of the Working Classes (Ireland) Act, 1908, that where a petition is presented.