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292

194

Right of Bolicitor with whom mort-

to recover costs.

[58 & 59 Viot. c. 23 B. 8.]

No. 1 of 1871.

LEGAL PRACTITIONERS.

such mortgage had been made to a person not a solicitor, and such person had retained and employed such solicitor or firm to transact such business, and do such acts; and such charges and remuneration shall accordingly be recoverable from the mortgagor.

50. Any solicitor to or in whom, either alone or jointly with any other person, any mortgage is made or is vested by transfer or trans- gage is made mission, or the firm of which such solicitor is a member, shall be entitled to receive and recover from the person on whose behalf the same is done or to charge against the security, for all business trans- acted and acts done by such solicitor or firm subsequent and in rela- tion to such mortgage or to the security thereby created or the property therein comprised, all such usual professional charges and remuneration as he or they would have been entitled to receive if such mortgage had been made to, and had remained vested in, a person not a solicitor, and such person had retained and employed such solicitor or firm to transact such business and do such acts; and accordingly no such mortgage shall be redeemed except on payment of such charges and remuneration.

Extension of

certain en-

actments of

79 to the

+

51. So much of the Solicitors Act, 1843, of the Imperial Parlia- meat, sections 4, 5, 28, 29, 32, 37 (except from the words "Provided 07 Fict. o. also that it shall be lawful for any judge" to the end of the section!,

Colony.

38 to 41, and 43, as relates to the competence of attorneys or solici tors to have clerks bound by contracts under articles, the discharge of such contracts, service under such contracts when made with dis- abled or disqualified persons, the time for making applications for striking off the rolls persons admitted and enrolled erroneously but without fraud, the agency of attorneys or solicitors for disqualified persons, the delivery, reference, and taxation (whether before pay- ment or after) of bills of fees, charges, and disbursements for any business done by attorneys or solicitors, applications of parties and orders of Court for delivery and reference in such cases and for delivery up of deeds, documents, or papers, certificates of taxation and entering up of judgments, and the conditions on which actions or suits may be commenced or maintained by attorneys or solicitors for the recovery of any fees, charges, or disbursements shall (but subject to the provisions herein contained) extend to this Colony.

* As amended by No. 02 of 1911.

As amended by No. 60 of 1011, No. 02 of 1911 and No. 63 of 1911.

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rolls.

52. The Court shall have power, for reasonable cause, to remove Striking off and strike off from the rolls of the Court the name of any barrister of solicitor.

Law Officers.

53. The provisions of this Ordinance shall not apply to the Exception of Attorney General or to the Crown Solicitor or any Assistant + Crown Solicitor.

54. The fees mentioned in the schedule shall be payable in respect Fees. of the matters therein mentioned.

$

55. Nothing in this Ordinance shall be deemed to affect the rules Saving as to rules of leg■! of the legal profession and the existing laws relating to barristers profession. and solicitors further or otherwise than is herein expressly enacted.

SCHEDULE.

TABLE OF FEES.

[8. 54.]

1. On the filing of an affidavit 2. On the enrolment and registration of articles or of any assignment of articles under sections U and 18..

3. On the entry of such articles or assignment in the book

$

to be open to public inspection under sections 6 and 18....

4. On the registration of a notary public under secton 25 $ 5. On the adinission of any person to practise as solicitor, whether on his own account or as clerk to another solicitor or firm of solicitors..

2.00

ន 5.00

$ 5.00 5.00

$ 150.00

* As amended by No. 63 of 1911.

+ As amended by the Final Revision Ordinance 1912.

As amended by No. 60 of 1911.

As amended by No. 62 of 1911.

Ae amended by No. 62 of 1911 and No. 63 of 1911.

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