The Gazette 1909-10

The Gazette of the Incorporated Law Society of Ireland,

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remuneration as provided in the schedule.of fees in proceedings before the Land Judge, and the scale of fees and costs allowed in proceedings under the Local Registration of Title (Ireland) Act, 1891, does not apply at all, except in so far as it incorporates the schedule of fees in proceedings before the Land Judge. Messrs. Wilson & Simms acted as solicitors to the Donegal County Council in the matter of the sale and abortive sale by private treaty to the council of three small.plots of land, situated respectively on farms owned respectively by James Callan, William Long and Samuel Marshall. No sale was effected as regards Marshall's land. In the other two cases sales were effected. The plots were purchased by the council, pursuant to their powers under the Local Government and Public Health Acts, and were required as quarries. Each of the two farms, on which were situated the plots purchased by the council, had been purchased by the owner under the Land Purchase Acts, and con sequently was subject to a terminable annuity, payable to the Land Commission, and had been registered under the Local Registration of Title (Ireland) Act, 1891. Callan's farm had been registered discharged from equities, and was not subject to any burden other than the terminable annuity. Long's farm had been registered, subject to equities, and was subject also to a charge created in favour of one Hastings. The price paid by the council for the plots purchased from Callan and Long did not, in either case, exceed £100. The bill of costs furnished by Messrs. Wilson & Simms in respect of these two purchases and of the attempted purchase amounted to £28 2s. 7d. It was taxed upon the requisition of the county council, and was upon taxation reduced by the sum of £11 2s. 6d. This reduction was arrived at by the complete disallowance of all items relating to the attempted purchase from Marshall, and by the application, as regards the items relating to the purchases from Callan and Long, of the principle that in each of those two cases Messrs. Wilson & Simms were entitled, as for a transfer on a sale of registered land of a value not exceeding £100, to the fee of £1 Is. set forth in Part 1. of the First Schedule to the Rules made | pursuant to the Local Registration of Title

Mr. Martin J. Burke, Solicitor, 53 Waring 3treet, Belfast, has been appointed Consul •for Belfast and district, for the United States •of Mexico. Commissioner to Administer Oaths. THE Lord Chancellor has appointed the following to be a Commissioner .to administer Oaths :— •. , ix'-Robe'rt :Mecredy, Solicitor, Swanlinbar. Ybo-.o,. . ———— • •;sqa TJ " New Solicitors. ADMISSIONS DURING MARCH, 1910. O.i, .-•• Rattle Served Apprenticeship to Babington, David L. J. Stuart C. Ross, London- ••',.•;••.: derry. Bailey, Edward William Alexander McDowell, Bel- '.".'". ' '.'-, i fa?1- H:arniitt6n) '.fataes Orr Barry Meglaughlin, Dun- Li • ;.•;.'•_•: .:' ••'•It-. .'• . ' •. gannon. IJazejtpn, John' Douglas Robert E. McLcan, Bel- ,, i.'- ': •' ' " .'. .-" - fast. McCallum, John Dun- Robert T. Martin, Bel ' woodie Martin fast. SanderSo'ii. William Thomas Falls, Dublin. Howard Result of Intermediate Examination, AT the Intermediate Examination held upon the 1st March, the following passed the examination, and their names are arranged in order of merit :— •.'I j'.ji.v •-';:•• • CLASS I. •>[•/.;/. r>Hi Francis Kennedy. j..',vii5. Matthew R. B. Dolan,. .•:>r-i'.-.--i 3. John F. Smyth. Four. candidates attended, three passed, one was postponed. Recent Decisions affecting Solicitors. (Notes of decisions, whether in reported or un- reported cases, of interest to Solicitors, are in- 1>i(ed. from Me?nbet s.) TJ\ -CHANCERY DIVISION—LAND JUDGES. .;':' .•;„. ' -•' '(Before Madden, J.) 'Donegal County Council and Wilson & Sim-ins. Feb. 14, 1910.— Costs — Local registration of title—Sale of portion only of registered Inml —A horlive proceedings for sale—Solicitors i'.^.,^Remuneration .Act, 1881— Scale of fees .L-yaflnd cosis. ;..; ...i _-•; Oil a sale, or abortive sale, of portion only of registered land the solicitor for. the pur chaser, or would-be purchaser; :is entitled to