The Gazette 1955-58

Vol. 50 No. 8

FEBRUARY, 1957

THE GAZETTE of the INCORPORATED LAW SOCIETY OF IRELAND

Suritay ERIC A. PLUNKETT

PruiJmt NIALL S. GAFFNEY

Vict-freiidtnts DESMOND J. COLLINS CHARLES J. DOWNING

FOR CIRCULATION AMONG MEMBERS

SEANAD ELECTION THE COUNCIL have nominated Mr. Arthur Cox as the Society's candidate for election on the Cultural and Educational Panel. Mr Cox is a member of the outgoing Seanad on which he has served with distinction. The electorate will consist of the new Bail, the outgoing Seanad and the members of County Councils and Corporations throughout the country. The election will be conducted on the proportional representation system and every prefer ence down to the lowest will be vital. It is unnecessary to stress the importance to the profession of having a member in the Seanad who will express not alone the viewpoint of the profess ions as a whole but the particular interests of the legal profession on legislative matters. The Council confidently appeal to all members to use their influence in having him elected. MEETINGS OF THE COUNCIL. JANUARY lyTH : The President in the Chair. Also present Messrs. Desmond J. Mayne, John R. Halpin, Francis X. Burke, Louis Walsh, Patrick R. Boyd, Desmond J. Collins, John Carrigan,

Ralph J. Walker, Cornelius J. Daly, John J. Shell, Robert McD. Taylor, Joseph P. Tyrrell, John J. Nash, William J. V. Comerford, Charles J. Downing, George A. Nolan, Terence De Vere White, James R. Quirke, Reginald J. Nolan, Thomas A. O'Reilly, Patrick F. O'Reilly, Dermot P. Shaw. The following was among the business transacted. Long Lease not at rack rent. A LESSOR made a lease of a dwelling house and garden in a provincial town for a term of 21 years from 1958 at a yearly rent of £45 over and above rates and taxes. There are no unusual covenants or conditions. The lessee held under a lease subject to the same rent which was due to expire in 1958, and purchased the lessee's interest in 1953 for £450. The rateable value of the premises is £19 los. od. The parties stated that the lease was made pursuant to a personal agreement and not under the Landlord & Tenant Act, 1931 as amended, and wished to know whether the lessor's costs should be charged under the higher or lower scale. The lessee at no time asserted any right to renewal under the Land- 67