Solicitors Remuneration Act 1881
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1881 c. 44 |
Solicitors Remuneration Act, 1881.
(44 & 45 Vict.) CHAPTER 44.
An Act for making better provision respecting the Remuneration of Solicitors in Conveyancing and other non-contentious Business.
[22nd August 1881]
Be it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:
Preliminary.
1 Short title; extent; interpretation.
(1)1.—(1.) This Act may be cited as the Solicitors Remuneration Act, 1881.
(2) (2.) This Act does not extend to Scotland.
(3) (3.) In this Act—
‘Solicitor’ means a solicitor or proctor qualified according to the statutes in that behalf:
‘Client’ includes any person who, as a principal, or on behalf of another, or as trustee or executor, or in any other capacity, has power, express or implied, to retain or employ, and retains or employs, or is about to retain or employ, a solicitor, and any person for the time being liable to pay to a solicitor, for his services, any costs, remuneration, charges, expenses, or disbursements:
‘Person’ includes a body of persons corporate or unincorporate:
‘Incorporated Law Society’ means, in England, the society referred to under that title in the Act passed in the session of the twenty-third and twenty-fourth years of Her Majesty's reign, intituled ‘An Act to amend the Laws relating to Attorneys, Solicitors, Proctors, and Certificated Conveyancers’; and, in Ireland, the society referred to under that title in the Attorneys and Solicitors Act, Ireland, 1866 :
‘Provincial law societies or associations’ means all bodies of solicitors in England incorporated by Royal Charter, or under the Joint Stock Companies Act, other than the Incorporated Law Society above mentioned.
General Orders.
2 Power to make General Orders for remuneration in conveyancing, &c.
2. In England, the Lord Chancellor, the Lord Chief Justice of England, the Master of the Rolls, and the president for the time being of the Incorporated Law Society, and the president of one of the provincial law societies or associations, to be selected and nominated from time to time by the Lord Chancellor to serve during the tenure of office of such president, or any three of them, the Lord Chancellor being one, and, in Ireland, the Lord Chancellor, the Lord Chief Justice of Ireland, the Master of the Rolls, and the president for the time being of the Incorporated Law Society, or any three of them, the Lord Chancellor being one, may from time to time make any such General Order as to them seems fit for prescribing and regulating the remuneration of solicitors in respect of business connected with sales, purchases, leases, mortgages, settlements, and other matters of conveyancing, and in respect of other business not being business in any action, or transacted in any Court, or in the Chambers of any Judge or Master, and not being otherwise contentious business, and may revoke or alter any such Order.
3 Communication to Incorporated Law Society.
3. One month at least before any such General Order shall be made, the Lord Chancellor shall cause a copy of the regulations and provisions proposed to be embodied...
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