The Gazette 1910-11

The Gazette of the Incorporated Law Society of Ireland.

[JULY, 1910

130

deeds, and what are

the costs properly

appearing before an Arbitrator upon behalf of several owners and occupiers whose lands were compulsorily acquired. The re muneration allowed by the Arbitrator was apparently at the rate of three guineas per day to the Solicitor, without taking into account the number of clients for whom he appeared, which resulted in the remuneration allowed being only three shillings and four- pence for all the work connected with the case of each client. The matter was referred to the Costs Committee, with authority to consult Counsel. Apprentices' Debating Society. " The Industrial Future of Ireland " was the subject selected for the medal to be awarded by the Council for Composition. Certificate An application by a Solicitor for liberty to renew his annual certificate was submitted and granted. Court of Examiners. A report from the Court of Examiners upon two applications by Law Clerks for leave to be bound under Section 16 was submitted, and it was resolved that both applications be granted. Costs Committee. The answers of the Costs Committee to the following queries were submitted and adopted :— A, an owner of certain premises in the City of Belfast, on which there is a mort gage affecting her interest for £2,400, verbally agreed, through a friend, to grant or sell her interest therein to B on the following terms, viz. :— B to pay to A £100 in cash and to take the premises subject to the mortgage for £2,400, and to obtain a conveyance or fee farm grant subject to the annual rent of £350. A holds the premises under a sub-fee farm grant; she is indemnified against payment of any rent by other portions of the premises in the original grant, the whole premises being liable to £60 per annum. Queries.—(1) Whose province is it to prepare, complete, and register the fee farm grant or conveyance in fee in duplicate. (2) Who is the proper party to pay for such

payable ? Answers.—The Solicitor for the grantor i= entitled to prepare the grant and counterpart, and the costs of the Solicitors of both parties are payable by the grantee. Such costs should be drawn under Schedule I., Part II , Table II., and the rules thereunder of the General Order made under the Solicitors Remuneration Act. June 29th. Special Examiners. The Council reappointed Mr. Charles H. Denroche, B.A., LL.D., R.U.I., Solicitor ; and Mr. Frank V. Gordon, B.A., Ex-Scholar (T.C.D.), Solicitor, as Special Examiners for 1911 Commissioner of National Education. A letter was read from Mr. David M. Moriarty, Solicitor, thanking the Council for their congratulations upon his appoint ment as a Commissioner of National Educa tion in Ireland. the difficulty of conducting the business of some of the Courts owing to the noise of traffic, it was resolved to make application to the Corporation of Dublin to direct the laying down of wood pavement in the streets around the Four Courts and Metropolitan Police Courts. Examinations. An application by a Law Clerk under Section 18 for a modified preliminary exami nation was considered, and it was resolved that the application be not opposed. Increment Duty. A report was adopted from the Costs Committee with reference to the query sub mitted by the Coleraine Branch of the Derry and Antrim Solicitors' Association, asking whether payment of increment duty must be discharged by a Vendor before a Purchaser can be asked to complete a sale. The report stated that the proper course of procedure was for the Purchaser's Solicitor to hand the deed to the Vendor's Solicitor to have it executed in the usual way by the Vendor, Wood Pavement outside Courts. Attention having been called to