The Gazette 1946-49

Negotiation fee on sale of lands THE Council considered a query from -a member on the following facts : Registered land, in respect of which equities had been discharged, was put up for sale by public auction. The purchaser attended at the auction, purchased the land for £5,000 and signed conditions of sale. He subsequently went to his solicitor who advised him that the conditions were in one respect unsatisfactory and subsequently succeeded by negotiation with the vendor's solicitor in having a paragraph added clarifying the position as regards the crops growing on the land, which were included in the sale, and also obtaining an extension of the time for sending in requisitions and for closing. The alterations were initialled by the vendor. The proper costs to be charged will be half the scale fee in the case of unregistered land. QUERY : Is the purchaser's solicitor entitled to the fee for negotiating the sale or must the scale fee be reduced by the negotiation fee? OPINION OF THE COUNCIL : The solicitor is MR. PATRICK F. O'REILLY was re-appointed one of the Society's representatives on this Committee. Applications under Section 47 THE Council considered applications from nine solicitors, verified by affidavit in each case, for liberty to take out their practising certificates for the current year. Each application was granted subject to the payment of the current licence duty. JANUARY 29111. The President in the chair : Also present: Mr. James R. Quirke, Vice-President; Messrs. John B. Hamill, William J. Norman, Joseph P. Tyrrell, Patrick F. O'Reilly, Thomas A. O'Reilly, Henry St. J. Blake, Henry P. Mayne, William S. Hayes, Arthur Cox, Joseph Barrett, Roger Greene. The following was among the business transacted: Applications under Section 47 THE Council considered applications from three solicitors, verified by affidavit in each case, for liberty to take out their practising certificates for the current year. Each application was granted subject to the payment of the current licence duty. As the Council will not meet again until February 26th, a sub-Committee was appointed to deal with 48 entitled to charge the negotiation fee. District Court Rules Committee

applications under Section 47, which may be re ceived before the date of the next meeting. SPECIAL GENERAL MEETING OF THE SOCIETY A SPECIAL GENERAL MEETING of the Society was held on THURSDAY, 2gth JANUARY, 1948. The President in the chair: Also present: Messrs. James R. Quirke, Vice-President; Joseph Barrett, H. St. J. Blake, John J. Bolger, Arthur Cox, Roger Greene, J. B. Hamill, Wm. S. Hayes, H. P. Mayne, W. J. Norman, Daniel O'Connell, P. F. O'Reilly, T. A. O'Reilly, J. P. Tyrrell, D. Moran, Seosamh O Cuinneaghain, George T. Eason, C. Gore-Grimes, J. J. Hickey, J. S. Sealy, C. B. W. Boyle, O. G. Fry. The Agenda for the meeting was as follows : 1. Appointment of five persons to be members of the Nominating Committee of the Cultural and Educational Panel pursuant to Section 22 of the Seanad Electoral (Panel Members) Act, 1947. 2. Proposal of two persons for nomination to the Cultural and Educational Panel pursuant to Section 27 of the Seanad Electoral (Panel Members) Act, 1947. It was proposed, seconded and unanimously resolved that the following members of the Society be appointed to act on the Nomination Committee for the Cultural and Educational Panel : Messrs. Scan O hUadhaigh, John B. Hamill, Arthur Cox, Henry St. J. Blake, Daniel O'Connell. It was proposed, seconded and unanimously resolved that the following members of the Society be proposed for nomination to the Cultural and Educational Panel: Senator Louis E. O'Dea, Mr. Patrick F. O'Reilly. SEANAD ELECTIONS As stated above, Senator Louis E. O'Dea of Eyre Square, Galway, and Mr. Patrick F. O'Reilly of 8 South Great George's Street, Dublin, both past Presidents of the Society and now members of the Council, have been proposed by the Society for nomination to the Cultural and Educational Panel at the forthcoming election. It would be greatly in the interests of the profession that Senator O'Dea and Mr. O'Reilly should be elected to the Seanad and it is hoped that members of the profession throughout the country will use their influence tc obtain support for their candidature.