Re C H Boyd MacKay

• Jurisdiction: Ireland
• Judgment Date: 29 April 1868
• Date: 29 April 1868
• Court: Exchequer (Ireland)

Exchequer.

In re C. H. BOYD MACKAY.

Ruckmaboye v. Lulloobhoy Mettichund 8 Moore, P. C. C. 4.

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Admission as Attorney ���Serving for and during the Term of Five Years.���

664 THE IRISH REPORTS. In re C. H. BOYD MACKAY. Admission as Attorney-Solicitors' Act-" Serving for and during the Term of Five Years." A. was bound apprentice to an attorney in Michaelmas Term, 1863, for the full term of five years, and had duly attended lectures, and otherwise quali�fied himself for admission as an attorney, down to Easter Term, 1868. The Solicitors' Act, 1866, requires applicants for admission to pass a certain exami�nation instituted by the Law Society. According to the rules of the Law witty all applicants for admission, previous to Michaelmas Term, 1868, would have to pass this examination in Trinity Term. A. now applied for an order of the Court that he should be allowed to attend this examination, in order to q alify himself to be admitted at the end of Trinity Term. Held, that A. could not require to be admitted until he had completed the full term of five years from the date of the indentures. Tins was an application for an order that C. H. B. Mackay might be at liberty to pass his final examination prior to being admitted an attorney, at the examination to be held within the fortnight ending on the 8th day of Trinity Term next. It appeared from the affidavit of the applicant that he passed the preliminary examination for apprentices prior to Michaelmas Term, 1863, and on the 1st of November, 1863, entered the office of James Sweeny, 33, Anglesea-street, and on the 16th of same month was bound apprentice (the stamp duty having been previously paid) for the term of five years. The applicant sought permission from the Court of Examiners to attend the next final examination, in order that he might be admitted at the end of Trinity Term, at which period he would have served Mr. Sweeny for twenty Terms, which he sought to have considered as a period of five years./ The Law Society refused to admit this construction, or to allow applicant to attend the coming examination. The words of the indenture were, to serve " until the full end and term of five years, from the ' 16th November, 1863, next ensuing, fully to be completed and ended." It was admitted that applicant had duly attended lee tures and otherwise qualified himself during the period of his apprenticeship. The applicant...