The Gazette 1918-19

[MARCH, 1919

The Gazette of the Incorporated Law Society of Ireland.

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Proceedings in Minor Matters. THE Lord Chancellor has made the following Order relating to proceedings in Minor matters :— I, the Right Honourable Sir James Henry Mussen Campbell, Baronet, Lord Chancellor of Ireland, in pursuance of the powers reserved to me under Order V., Rule 2, of the Rules of the Supreme Court (Ireland), 1905, and of all other powers hereunto me enabling, hereby Order and direct that the Order of the Lord Chancellor dated the '25th day of June, 1915, be and the same is hereby revoked : And I do further Order and direct that in all cases in which proceedings to make Minors Wards of Court are instituted by Originating Summons instead of by Originating Petition, the Originating Summons shall be marked for the Lord Chancellor. (Signed), JAMES H. CAMPBELL, ('. Dated this 4th day of February, 1919. Section 1, Sub-Section 1, of the above Act enacts that " Where the rent of a dwelling- " house to which this Act applies has been " since the commencement of the present " war, or is hereafter during the continuance " of this Act increased above the standard " rent, as hereinafter defined, the amount by " which the rent exceeds the amount which " would have been payable had the increase " not been made shall notwithstanding any " agreement to the contrary be irrecoverable." The Act applies in Ireland to a house or a part of a house let as a separate dwelling- house where either the annual amount of the standard rent or the rateable value does not exceed £26 (see Sec. 2, Sub-Sec. 2 (c). " Standard Rent " is defined as the rent at which the house was let on the 3rd August, 1914, or where the house was not let on that date, the rent at which it was let before that date, or where the house was first let after Recent Legal Decisions. Emergency Legislation—Increase of Rent and Mortgage Interest (War Restrictions) Act, 1915.

MR. ROBERT POWELL, Solicitor, died upon the 17th February, 1919, at his residence, Druid Hill, Killiney, Co. Dublin. Mr. Powell served his apprenticeship with Mr. John W. F. Garvey, Ballina ; was admitted in Hilary Sittings, 1904, and practised as a member of the firm of Messrs. W. J. Shannon & Co., at 19 Upper Ormond Quay, Dublin. MR. THOMAS M. KENNY, Solicitor, died upon the 27th February, 1919, at Salerno, Galway. Mr. Ivenny served his apprenticeship with his father, the late Mr. Matthew Kenny, 17 Middle Gardiner Street, Dublin ; was admitted in Trinity Sittings, 1880, and practised (in partnership with Mr. James W. Blake, under the style of Messrs. Blake and Kenny), at Galway.

New Members.

following joined the Society during

THE

February, 1919 :—

James G. 0'Connor, 44 Westland Row, Dublin. Patrick F. Quinlan, 68 Middle Abbey Street, Dublin.

Commissioner to Administer Oaths. THE Lord Chancellor has appointed the following to be a Commissioner to administer Oaths :— David W. J. Browne, Clerk of Petty- Sessions, Mitchelstown.

New Solicitors.

during

admitted

were

THE following February, 1919 :- Name Byron, Timothy

Served Apprenticeship to Thomas j. Deering, 12 Lr. Ormond Quay, Dublin. F. H. Hall, Cork. Edward PlieUn, Carrick- macross. W. J. Shannon, 19 Upper Ormond Quay, Dublin.

Dorian, Michael Marron, Patrick

McD.mntll, Edmond Kobtrt