The Gazette 1908-9

[MAR.. 1909

The Gazette of the Incorporated Law Society of Ireland.

Lectures. An application by an apprentice \vho had missed three lectures during Hilary Sittings owing to ill-health, asking for credit for such lectures, was considered, and permission was granted to supplement such lectures by attend ance at two additional lectures during Easter and Trinity Sittings. Costs Committee. A report from the Costs Committee was sub mitted and adopted upon the following query as to what costs the vendor's solicitor was entitled to under the following circum stance :—Leasehold property of a deceased was put up for sale by auction in several lots. Lot No. 8 was sold for ,£150, the purchaser signing a contract,'! and paying £12 los. deposit, and £j IDS. auction fees. Abstract of title and documents to vouch were sent to her solicitor ; his requisitions were discharged, draft conveyance approved of and returned ; but it then turned out that the purchaser had not money to complete, and time was given for her to raise it. After attempts to obtain the purchase-money failing, the lot was put upon house agents' books for sale, and a pur chaser offered £150, but declined to proceed on inspecting abstractof title and copies of deeds which had to be re-drawn, as the original pur chaser refused to return those furnished to him. Finally, the lot was sold privately for ^£125. £10 of the original deposit was, with consent of vendors, returned to the original purchaser. The decision of the Council was that the vendors' solicitor is entitled to the scale fee on the completed sale at ^125, and also to remuneration for the work done (in so far as such work is not covered by the scale fee on the completed sale) in connexion with the attempted sale to the first intended purchaser, drawn under the old system as altered by Schedule II. Labourers (Ireland) Act. Letters from two solicitors in reference to taxation of owners' costs for making title were submitted, one of which was referred to the Costs Committee to be dealt with, and a reply to the other was approved of. Council Meetings. MEETINGS of the Council will be held upon the following dates :— March roth and 24th. April 21 st.

Committee Meetings. THE following Committee Meetings were held during February:— House, Library, and Finance, 3rd. Land Act, 5th. Bankruptcy Law, 5th. Gazette, i7th.

New Members. THE following have joined the Society during February, 1909:—

Elliot, Thomas J., Belfast. Magee, John H., Donegal. Russell, Charles M., Downpatrick. Walsh, Henry St. P., Tralee.

Commissioners to administer Oaths. THE Lord Chancellor has appointed the following to be Commissioners to administer Oaths :— Louis A. Finnegan, Income Tax Collector) Abbeyleix. Walter John Joyce, Portumna. Denis O'Carroll, Clerk of Rural District Council, Castlecomer. James Rankin, Clerk of Petty Sessions, Garvagh. Obituary. MR. William S. O'B. Leahy, Solicitor, died on the ist February, 1909, at his residence, Licadoon, Limerick. Mr. Leahy served his apprenticeship with his father, the late Mr. Michael Leahy, of Newcastle West, County Limerick, and was admitted in Hilary Term, '875- Mr. Leahy, who practised in Limerick, was appointed Sessional Crown Solicitor of Limerick in 1892, and Crown Solicitor in 1893, which office he held up to 1907, when he resigned. He latterly practised in partnership with his son, Mr. Edward Leahy, who carries on the business under the style of Leahy & Son. Mr. James J. W. Savage, Solicitor, died on the 27th February, 1909, at his residence, The Square, Castleblayney.