University of Virginia Library

LAW DEPARTMENT.

PROFESSOR H. ST. G. TUCKER.

This school is arranged into two classes. The subjects studied
by the Junior Class are the Elementary Principles of Municipal
Law, the Law of Nature and Nations, the Science of Government,
and Constitutional Law. The text books used will be Blackstone's
Commentaries, that portion of Kent's Commentaries which treats
of Constitutional Law and the Law of Nations, the Federalist, the

Virginia Report of '99; in addition to which ample lectures are
delivered on the connexion between the Law of Nature and Municipal
Law; on the Science of Government and its various forms,
particularly the representative and federative; and on the various
topics of Constitutional Law discussed in the text-books. In the
arrangement of the political part of this course, the Professor's
object has been to lay before the student the most able dissertations
on both sides of the great constitutional questions which have
arisen in our country; to impress upon his mind the inestimable
value of the union on the one hand, and the vital importance of
preserving the rights of the States on the other; thus guarding him
against latitudinarian constructions and the invasion of the reserved
rights of the States, while the disorganizing principles which lead
to convulsion and disunion are earnestly discarded and industriously
controverted.

The subjects studied by the Senior Class are the Common and
Statute Law, the Principles of Equity and the Maritime and Commercial
Law. The text-books will be Stephens on Pleading,
Tucker's Commentaries, Smith's Mercantile Law and Starkie's
Evidence.

The following additional works will be useful to the student for
occasional examination: Thomas's Coke, Lomax on Executors,
and Lomax's Digest.

Junior Class.—Paley's Philosophy, Constitution of Virginia.

Those who desire to graduate are required to attend both classes.

The design of this arrangement is to embrace in the Junior
course those studies which not only form an essential part of a
liberal professional education, but which from their universal interest
and importance, constitute a highly useful branch of general
education: whilst the Senior course is exclusively occupied with
the study of the theory and practice of Law, as a profession.

Students can attend either or both the classes; and those not
wishing to study Municipal Law at all, can enter for that portion
of the Junior course which includes National Law, Government
and Constitutional Law.

On the text-books of both classes, comments are delivered by the
Professor, in which it is his object to supply what is deficient, and
explain what is obscure in the text, and to offer such remarks as
he deems necessary to a thorough understanding of the subject
under consideration. In those on Municipal Law, he refers to the
leading cases and authorities, American and English, illustrative
of the topic treated by the author, and particularly explains in its
appropriate connexion, the Statute Law of Virginia and the United
States, and its effects on the pre-existing law. Each lecture is
preceded by an examination on the last, together with its text.

By a recent act of the legislature a diploma in this school dispenses
with the necessity of a license from the judges.