Whatever searches and inquiries are deemed necessary, should, of course, be brought down to a point as close as possible to the time fixed for completion: some practitioners make the search immediately after obtaining an opinion upon the abstract, and a supplemental search immediately before completion; but the more ordinary course, it is conceived, is to make but one search, and that immediately before completion.

Annuities a •!

Recovery deeds and acknow-ledgments by married women.

Searches, fee., when to be made.

(x) Sect. 133.

5 & 6 Vict. c. 122, s 7; 12 & 13 Vict. c. 106, ss. 88, 134.

(z) ig. 677.

(a) 1 Jarni. Conv. by S. 118.

(b) See the 1st Report.

We may here remark, that a solicitor will not be allowed upon taxation, even as between solicitor and client, the costs of searches directed by counsel, but which have, to the knowledge of the solicitor, been rendered unnecessary by subsequent events (c).

Unnecessary costs of not allowed.

(c) Langford v. Mahony, 3 J. & L. 97.