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DEPARTMENT OF LAW.

   
EDWIN ANDERSON ALDERMAN, D. C. L., LL. D.,  President. 
WILLIAM MINOR LILE, LL. D.,  Dean. 

CHARLES ALFRED GRAVES, M. A., LL. D.,
Professor of the Law of Contracts, Torts, and Civil Procedure.

WILLIAM MINOR LILE, LL. D.,
Professor of the Law of Persons, Mercantile Law, Corporations,
and Equity.

RALEIGH COLSTON MINOR, M. A., B. L.,
Professor of the Law of Real Property, and Public Law.

Among the original schools contemplated in Mr. Jefferson's plan for
the organization of the University of Virginia, was "Law: Municipal and
Foreign; Embracing the General Principles, Theory, and Practice of
Jurisprudence, together with the Theory and Principles of Constitutional
Government."
Accordingly the School of Law was established in 1826,
and has been in continuous operation since, even during the four years of
the civil war. The aim of the Department of Law has always been to
maintain a high standard as a requirement for graduation—the degree
being conferred only upon such students as are thorough masters of the
prescribed course of study. This policy has been rigorously enforced,
and its wisdom has been vindicated by the high position to which the
graduates of the law school are accustomed to attain at the bar or in
public life. The course of instruction has been extended from time to
time to conform to changing conditions and to meet the increasing needs
of the profession. It is confidently believed that the enlarged course now
offered will enable those who complete it more surely to maintain that
rank at the bar which the University has always expected of her sons.

Formerly it was possible for the law student to begin and complete
his professional studies in the office of some friendly member of the bar
—Blackstone's Commentaries and the Code of his State forming the main
portion of his curriculum. Then the authorities were few, the leading
principles alone were settled, and their application was comparatively
simple. In more recent times, so widened is the scope of the law, so
complex its principles, so nice and yet so important its distinctions, so
numerous and conflicting the authorities, that it is scarcely practicable
for even the most diligent student to master the subject, in its multiform
phases, without the systematic instruction of skilled teachers. Furthermore,
the increased and increasing scope and rigor of the examinations
for admission to the bar in the several States call for a more extensive


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course of study than was afforded in former days by the law school, and
a wider and more intimate knowledge of legal principles than can generally
be acquired by private study.

These considerations have led to a general conviction among the
leaders of professional thought throughout the country that no student
should essay the practice of the law who has not spent at least two years
in close and attentive study in a law school. Indeed, the decided tendency
is toward requiring even a longer period of study, as essential either to
graduation or to admission to the bar.

Required for Entrance upon the Work of the Department.—The
General Entrance Examination, or admission to the University by certificate
or diploma, as stated in a preceding portion of this catalogue, pp.
78-87. For exemption from this rule in the case of Special Students not
candidates for the degree in Law, see p. 83. All candidates for the
degree must have attained the age of eighteen before entering the Law
School.

Course of Study.—The course is planned with a view to acquaint the
student familiarly and practically with the principles of his profession.
Care is taken to teach him to think for himself, and to rely upon reason
and principle, rather than upon memory; it being considered better that
the student follow principle to its legitimate conclusion, though this be
at variance with the decisions of the courts, than that he should arrive
at a faultless result by the exercise of memory or by accident.

The instruction is as thorough as possible, and is given partly through
text-books and partly through lectures (on some subjects with the addition
of illustrative cases), with careful daily examinations upon both. The
daily quiz has long been a marked and, as experience has proved, a most
valuable feature of the system of instruction. As cross-examination
exposes error and develops truth, so the daily quiz enables the instructor
to discover and rectify misconceptions of legal principles on the part of
the student.

The course occupies two years, and it is not permissible to apply
for graduation in less time. Indeed, since future professional success
depends upon complete mastery of elementary principles, it is not advisable
for the student to devote less time to preparation for practice, even
though he be not a candidate for graduation. It is a maxim sanctioned
by long and wide experience that "he who is not a good lawyer when he
comes to the bar, will seldom be a good one afterwards." In order to
acquire such thorough knowledge of the elements of the law, thought as
well as reading is requisite; and, for the purpose of thought, there must
be time to digest as well as industry to acquire. One cannot gorge himself
with legal principles and digest them afterwards; the process of assimilation,
if it is to proceed healthfully and beneficially, must accompany
the reception of knowledge.

Arrangement of Classes.—The course of instruction in the Department
of Law comprises twelve separate classes. Six of these classes


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constitute the first year's studies, and six the studies of the second year.

In the work of each year, there are nine lectures a week. The
lectures occupy an hour and a half each, so that each year's course
demands thirteen and a half hours of class-work each week, besides
the work of the Moot and Practice courts.

The following table exhibits an outline of the course:

                       
[3] First
Year.
 
1. The Law of Persons; Personal Property (including
Sales); Wills of Personalty, and Administration.
 
2. The Law of Contracts. 
3. The Law of Crimes and Criminal Procedure. 
4. Mercantile Law: Negotiable Paper; Partnership; Insurance. 
5. Torts, Bailments, and Carriers. 
6. Theory of Government; Constitutional Law; International
Law.
 
Second Year.  7. Equity Jurisprudence and Procedure; Bankruptcy. 
8. Pleading and Practice in Civil Cases. 
9. The Law of Real Property. 
10. The Law of Corporations. 
11. The Law of Evidence. 
12. Conflict of Laws. 

FIRST YEAR COURSE.

1. Law of Persons; Personal Property; Wills and Administration.

Professor Lile.

The preliminary lectures in this class are devoted to the nature,
sources and evidences of the law; the absolute and relative rights of
persons, and their constitutional guaranties; citizenship and naturalization;
and subordinate magistrates. This is followed by a thorough drill
in the subjects of principal and agent; husband and wife, including their
common law property rights, with the modern statutory modifications;
parent and child; and guardian and ward. Later, the study of the law of
personal property (including the law of sales) is pursued in its various
phases, followed by that of wills of personalty and administration. Under
the latter classification are included the execution of wills; the qualification
of personal representatives and the settlement of their accounts; the
law of legacies and of distribution; and the complete administration of
estates.—September 16 to March 1—Three times a week.

Text-Books.—Long's Domestic Relations; Mechem's Principles of Agency;
Rood on Wills; R. M. Benjamin's Principles of Sales (2d ed.); The Professor's
Printed Notes.


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2. The Law of Contracts.

Professor Graves.

In this class, coming appropriately at the beginning of the Junior
year, an effort is made to give a thorough, though elementary, course in
the fundamentals of contract law—the formation, operation, and discharge
of contracts—with a full discussion of the doctrine of consideration, the
requirements of the Statute of Frauds, and the consequences of the various
kinds of illegality, whether at common law or by statute. The important
subject of Quasi-Contract also receives adequate attention. The textbook
on Contracts (Clark, following the analysis of Anson) is accompanied
by a volume of Illustrative Cases, and is supplemented by the Professor's
Printed Notes, explaining obscurities in the text, and calling attention to
the recent cases in Virginia and elsewhere.—September 16 to December 21
—Three times a week.

Text-Books.—Clark on Contracts (2d ed.); Hopkins's Cases on Contracts;
The Professor's Printed Notes.

3. The Law of Crimes and Criminal Procedure.

Professor Minor.

In the study of this subject the student is made familiar with the
general principles enforced by the courts in the administration of criminal
justice. He is instructed as to the nature and elements of the more
important crimes, both common law and statutory. Attention is given
rather to the acquisition of a thorough knowledge of the leading principles
than to the less important details, which, with a knowledge of the former,
may readily be acquired. The course of instruction further embraces a
study of the forms of procedure, the nature, organization and duties of
the courts, and of grand and petit juries; arrests and bail; indictments,
presentments, informations, and the various defenses, by way of demurrer,
plea, or otherwise; together with the ordinary incidents of a criminal
trial, such as challenges of jurors, motions for a new trial, bills of exceptions,
motions in arrest of judgment, and writs of error.

The last lectures of this course are devoted to the practical work of
drawing indictments, pleas in abatement and other criminal pleading, and
the making of motions for new trial, in arrest of judgment, etc.—September
16 to January 20—Three times a week.

Text-Books.—Clark's Criminal Law; Beale's Criminal Pleading and Practice;
The Professor's Notes.

4. Mercantile Law.

Professor Lile.

Under this head are grouped the subjects of Negotiable Instruments,
Insurance, and Partnership. The instruction is made as practical as


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possible, by frequent use of the various mercantile instruments, as exhibits,
in the course of the lectures. In the study of the law of negotiable paper,
constant reference is made to the Negotiable Instruments Law, recently
enacted in many States, including Virginia, and likely to be adopted
throughout the country. In addition to the study of the general principles
of the law of insurance, attention is devoted to particular clauses
most usual in life, marine, and accident policies, and the New York Standard
fire policy is studied, clause by clause, in the light of judicial construction.—March
1 to end of session—Three times a week.

Text-Books.—Bigelow on Bills, Notes, and Cheques (Student's Series—2d
ed.); Vance on Insurance; Mechem on Partnership; The Negotiable Instruments
Law; The Professor's Notes.

5. Torts, Bailments, and Carriers.

Professor Graves.

The Law of Torts (or Non-Contract Law) is first taken up, and is
studied in the order of Professor Bigelow's analysis, viz: (1) Breach of
Duty to Refrain from Fraud or Malice; (2) Breach of Absolute Duty;
and (3) Breach of Duty to Refrain from Negligence. In connection with
the text-book, a volume of cases is used, which serve to illustrate and
impress the abstract principles by concrete examples.

On the completion of Torts, the subject of bailments is entered upon,
and after an outline of the doctrines concerning the several kinds of
Bailees (including Innkeepers), the Law of Carriers (of goods and
passengers) is begun, and is considered with the fulness and thoroughness
due to this important topic. No case-book is used, as the text and notes
of Hutchinson on Carriers furnish abundant illustrations.—From January
3 to end of session—Three times a week.

Text-Books.—Bigelow on Torts (7th ed.); Chase's Cases on Torts (2d ed.);
Hutchinson on Carriers ((2d ed.); The Professor's Notes.

6. Theory of Government; Constitutional Law; International Law.

Professor Minor.

The first lectures of this course are devoted to the Theory and Practice
of Government. It is traced from its generally accepted origin—the
family—through its various stages to the modern forms, and effort is
made by reasoning and comparison to point out the benefits of good government,
the dangers of the bad.

This is followed by Constitutional Law, in the study of which close
attention is given to the judicial interpretation of the Federal Constitution,
and to the great constitutional principles prevailing throughout the
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acts of legislation, and the student is warned against such as tend to
exceed the limits of safe and constitutional restrictions. The checks and
balances of the constitution are pointed out, and by comparing it with
other constitutions, notably that of England, its weak as well as strong
points are developed. Especial attention is given to such important subjects
as ex post facto laws, laws impairing the obligation of contracts,
due process of law, trial by jury, the power of taxation and of eminent
domain, the police power, interstate commerce, etc.

In the lectures upon Public International Law are considered the
various rules which regulate the intercourse of one nation with another
—such as the principles governing the origin, recognition, and equality
of States; their rights in time of peace, and the means whereby they
peaceably procure the enjoyment of those rights; the laws of war, and
the rights and duties of belligerents, and the rules regulating the relations
of neutral and belligerent States.—January 20 to May 8—Three
times a week.

Text-Books.—Cooley's Principles of Constitutional Law (3d ed.); Davis's
International Law (2d ed.); The Professor's Notes.

SECOND YEAR COURSE.

7. Equity Jurisprudence and Procedure; Bankruptcy.

Professor Lile.

After consideration of the origin and rise of the chancery jurisdiction,
the student is led carefully through the usual subjects of equitable cognizance,
and thence into the methods of procedure, as recognized in the
High Court of Chancery in England, and as modified by statute or by
rules of court in America. The contrast between legal and equitable
principles and procedure is constantly adverted to, and the student is
incited to the appreciation and cultivation of the fine sense of moral right
underlying the doctrines of technical equity. The procedure in the Federal
courts of chancery and in the Chancery courts of Virginia (where
the distinction between legal and equitable procedure is still maintained)
is made the basis of instruction. Practical work is required in draughting
the various forms and pleadings, from the subpœna to the final decree.

In the law of Bankruptcy, sufficient instruction is given to afford to
the student a fair working knowledge of general principles, and effort is
made to secure as great familiarity as possible with the specific provisions
of the National Bankruptcy Act of 1898, and the prescribed rules of procedure
thereunder.—September 16 to February 1—Three times a week.

Text-Books.—Merwin's Equity; Text-books on Equity Practice and Bankruptcy
(to be announced); The Professor's Notes.


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8. Pleading and Practice.

Professor Graves.

In this class the subjects are Pleading and Practice at common law,
and under the Virginia Statutes; and Federal Jurisdiction and Procedure.
These are all confined to civil cases at law; criminal procedure and equity
jurisdiction and procedure being taught elsewhere in the course.

An outline of the instruction in this class may be given as follows:

(1) The principles and rules of pleading at common law—an intimate
acquaintance with the common law rules and principles being insisted
upon as essential to a proper knowledge of pleading under any system.

(2) The organization and jurisdiction of the Virginia courts, and
the proceedings in a law suit from beginning to end, including appellate
proceedings; and the law of attachments, executions, homestead
exemptions, etc.

(3) The organization and jurisdiction of the Federal courts; removal
of causes from State to Federal courts; the conformity or nonconformity
of the procedure at law in the Federal courts with that in
the courts of the State wherein they are held; and appellate proceedings
in the Federal courts.—September 16 to March 9—Three times a week.

Text-Books.—Andrews's Stephen on Pleading; Hughes's Jurisdiction and
Procedure of the United States Courts; The Professor's Printed Notes on
Pleading, and Printed Questions; Burks's Printed Notes on Pleading, and
Printed Questions.

9. The Law of Real Property.

Professor Minor.

The instruction in this class covers a detailed and careful study of
the subject of Real Property Law, in all its branches. The nature and
several kinds of real estate, and the various interests therein, with the
principles appertaining to each, curtesy and dower, the relations of landlord
and tenant, co-tenancies, the feudal tenures and principles, uses and
trusts, the far-reaching effects of the Statute of Uses, the conditions,
covenants, and other qualifications attached to conveyances of land, are
reviewed at length. The historical connection between ancient and modern
doctrines of conveyancing, with the statutory changes, are carefully traced.
Remainders, reversions, and executory limitations, and the principles
governing their creation, validity, and effect, together with the sources
of title to lands, whether by descent or by the manifold forms of purchase,
and the principles controlling each, the subjects of conveyances, contracts
to convey, wills of lands, adverse possession, the registry of instruments
of title, and the principles regulating the acquisition and validity of taxtitles,
are investigated in detail.

Throughout this course, emphasis is placed on common law principles,
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by tracing them to their feudal or other sources, and by following them
into the modern forms they have assumed under the guiding hand of
courts and legislatures.

Several lectures are devoted to the practical drafting of deeds, contracts,
and wills, as these subjects are presented.—September 16 to March 24
—Three times a week.

Text-Books.—To be announced.

10. The Law of Corporations.

Professor Lile.

In view of the modern development of the law of corporations, both
in extent and importance, increasing attention is devoted to this branch
of the curriculum. Among other subjects of lesser import, the lectures
embrace the promotion, organization, and management of business corporations;
the formation and enforcement of subscriptions for shares;
corporate duties, powers, and liabilities; the relations between the corporation
and the State, between the corporate body and its shareholders,
officers, agents, and creditors, and the reciprocal relations of these with
one another; the consolidation, dissolution, and winding up of corporations;
and the appointment, duties, and powers of receivers. The principles
applicable to municipal corporations, whether in their public or their
proprietary characters, are fully elucidated; the subjects of municipal
taxation, municipal bonds, franchises, rights and liabilities in connection
with streets, as affecting the municipality, the public generally, and the
abutting proprietors, are dealt with in detail.—February 1 to end of
session—Three times a week

Text-Books.—Marshall on Corporations; Clephane on Business Corporations—their
Organization and Management; The Professor's Printed Notes on
Private Corporations; The Professor's Printed Notes on Municipal Corporations.

11. Law of Evidence.

Professor Graves.

The principles of this subject are sought to be elucidated by the aid
of the latest and most philosophical expositions of evidence, notably those
of the late Professor James B. Thayer, of Harvard University, to whose
work, "A Preliminary Treatise on Evidence at the Common Law," constant
reference is made. The text-book used—Volume I of Greenleaf—is
edited by Professor Wigmore, and in it have been incorporated the results
of the historical research and scientific analysis of Professor Thayer and
others.

But while great attention is paid to the rationale of the law of
evidence, as indispensable to a mastery of its principles, the practical
character of the rules of evidence is not overlooked, and an earnest effort
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the student such a working knowledge of the subject as will enable him
to apply its principles in the course of judicial investigations.—From
March 10 to end of session—Three times a week.

Text-Books.—Greenleaf on Evidence (16th ed., by Wigmore); The Professor's
Printed Questions.

12. The Conflict of Laws.

Professor Minor.

As the facilities of commerce and intercourse between the various
States and countries of the world increase, this subject becomes of graver
importance, though as yet it has received rather scanty recognition at
the hands of text-writers and law-schools.

The course includes a discussion of the nature and various kinds of
domicil; the law governing status, and the conveyance of personal
property abroad; the validity, construction, and effect of foreign wills,
successions, and administrations; foreign marriages and divorces; transactions
relating to real estate; the execution, interpretation, and validity
of foreign contracts; the law governing the effect of foreign judgments
in rem or in personam; the recovery of damages for foreign torts; the
situs of crimes; the application of the lex fori; and the modes of pleading
and proving foreign laws.—March 24 to end of session—Three times
a week.

Text-Book.—Minor on Conflict of Laws.

MOOT COURT.

A Moot Court is organized by the students in the First Year's
course for the discussion of legal questions. Its meetings begin at the
opening and continue to the end of the session, with such interruptions
only as are incident to the proximity of the examinations. Attendance
is voluntary, as presence during the debates is intended to be a privilege
and not a burden. But every candidate for the degree is required to argue
at least one case in the Moot Court, and to hand in a carefully prepared
brief of his argument, with a digest of the authorities relied on. The
questions are chosen by the Law Faculty, one or more of whom preside
over the discussions. Interest and life are added to the proceedings by
the open debate held after the argument, the presiding judge acting as
interlocutor, and leading into the debate those whom diffidence prompts
to silence.

The following gentlemen served as officers of the Moot Court during
the session of 1906-1907:

       
Associate Judges  Herbert M. Peck, Beaver Dam, Wis. 
Russell L. Bradford, Norfolk, Va. 
Clerks  Robert N. Wilkin, New Philadelphia, Ohio. 
Joseph A. Harvey, Providence, R. I. 

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PRACTICE COURT.[4]

The Practice Court, presided over by one or more members of the
Law Faculty, and designed for students of the second year, is organized
October 1, two weeks after the beginning of the session. Its sessions are
held weekly. Attendance is obligatory on candidates for graduation.

The object of the Practice Court is to afford to the student practical
facility in the procedure which he will be called on to apply at the bar,
and to familiarize him with the whole proceedings in actions at law, and
suits in equity.

 
[4]

Practice Court Hour.—In Pleading and Practice at Law, the hour will be
on Thursday, from 1 to 2 p. m., the term of the court continuing from October
1 to December 21. In Equity Procedure, the hour will be on Thursday, from
10 to 11 a. m., the term of the court continuing from January 3 to March 15.

PRIZES.

Edward Thompson Company Prize.—This prize for the best thesis on
a subject assigned by the Law Faculty is awarded annually in a competition
open to members of the second year class, who are candidates for
graduation. It is donated by the Edward Thompson Company, of Northport,
N. Y., and consists of a set of the second edition of the American
and English Encyclopedia of Law (32 volumes), of the estimated value
of $240.

LIBRARY—LEGAL BIBLIOGRAPHY.

The Law Library is accommodated by its own library rooms, separate
from the general University library. The rooms are heated by steam
and lighted by electricity, and are located with special reference to the
convenience of the law students. A librarian is in attendance during
working hours.

The library contains complete sets of the decisions of Alabama, Arizona,
Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Idaho,
Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota,
Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina,
Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, United States Supreme Court,
Utah, Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia, and Wisconsi
n. It contains the
National Reporter System, complete; the American Decisions; American
Reports; American State Reports; Law Reports Annotated;
a valuable
collection of English Reports; and all the modern search-books, in the
form of general digests (including the Century) and Encyclopedias, besides
a large collection of text-books.

While the student is not encouraged too early to venture for himself
into either cases or text-books, save for the purpose of verifying or clearing
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briefs, he is incited to familiarize himself not only with the leading cases
to which his attention is called, but especially with the bibliography of
the law and the use of the books. To the latter subject, in addition to
the instruction incidentally given, several lectures are specially devoted.
The student is taught that books are the working tools of the lawyer,
and that facility in handling them, in the office and in the court room,
is an indispensable professional acquirement. He is instructed how to
consult authorities and run down cases; to distinguish doctrine from
dicta; to analyze, criticise, and compare cases; to distinguish imperative
authority from that which is persuasive only; to prepare briefs; and,
generally, so to accustom himself to law books and their use as to enable
him to investigate, with intelligence and skill, any question that may
come within the scope of his duty at the bar.

EXAMINATIONS AND DEGREES.

The degree of Bachelor of Laws (LL. B.) is conferred upon such
students as have attended two full sessions of nine months each (for
provision as to late entrance see page 171) of the law school, and who
manifest an intimate acquaintance with all the subjects embraced in the
course, evidenced by successfully passing all written examinations, and
who have satisfactorily performed the work of the Moot and Practice
courts and other assigned work.

Any one of the classes of the first or second year may be completed
separately. Upon the satisfactory completion of any class, a certificate
is issued to the student, followed by the diploma of graduation when
(and not until) all the examinations have been successfully passed.

Candidates for the degree, who in any session have less than one
full year's course to complete, may be required to take such additional
work, and to stand such additional examinations as shall be prescribed.

Fall Examinations.—The privilege of standing Fall examinations is
granted to candidates for graduation who have fallen slightly below the
required standard, and who have not more than two classes to complete.

These Fall examinations for the session of 1907-1908 will begin September
17, 1907, and will continue from day to day until completed,
in the following order: (1) Equity Jurisprudence and Procedure; (2)
Pleading and Practice; (3) Conflict of Laws; (4) Corporations; (5)
Evidence; (6) Real Property

Admission to Advanced Standing.No credit is given for attendance
at another law school, nor for time spent in private reading.
The candidate
for graduation must spend both the Junior and Senior year in
residence here.

Preliminary Education.[5] —Students, and their parents or guardians,
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demands for its successful prosecution, whether at the Law School or
in the broader fields of professional life, a well-trained mind. If it be
true that untrained intellects, in rare instances, under diligent and persistent
effort, develop after entrance upon practice, such exceptional cases
but serve to illustrate the rule, that out of a given number of young
men entering upon the study of the Law, those with sound preliminary
training will have incomparably the advantage, while those without it
will be seriously handicapped, and are likely never to rise above mediocrity
in their profession.

The experience of the Law Faculty—nay, of all law teachers—is,
that the standing and progress of law students are, in large measure, in
the ratio of their academic preparation. Young gentlemen are therefore
advised not to begin their legal studies until they have completed an
academic course approximating that ordinarily required for the degree of
Bachelor of Arts.

Special Students.—Students who can attend but a single session are
advised to take special courses, which the arrangement of the classes
readily permits. Over-zealousness, by which an ambitious student is
beguiled into the assumption of more work than he can thoroughly master
in a single year, leads to cramming and inaccuracy, and often to complete
failure. With this admonition, the special student is free to select his
own work. The following course is suggested for students who propose
to attend for a single session only:

First year classes 1, 3, and 4 (see p. 162); second year classes, 8,
9, and 11; or, if the student has already had some legal training, numbers
7 and 10 of the second year may be added. The first course suggested
would require 15 hours, and the second 19½ hours, of class-work
a week.

Late Entrance.—Registration commences Thursday, September 12, and
the work of the Law School begins promptly September 16, and continues
until the middle of June. Students are advised that late entrance is a
serious hindrance to progress. The student who enters late must begin his
work at the point to which the work has advanced at the time of his
entrance, and credit for a full year's attendance cannot be given in case
of entrance after November 1.

As regards conditions of admission in case of late entrance, reference
is made to the General Entrance Requirements, as stated on a preceding
page.

 
[5]

For entrance requirements see pp. 78-87

EXPENSES.

The necessary expenses at the University of a student in the Department
of Law may be estimated at from $330 upwards, according to the
mode of living, for each session. A fuller statement regarding expenses
may be found on preceding pages of this catalogue.


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SCHEDULE OF LECTURES AND EXAMINATIONS.

1907-1908.

Law Department.

(Subject to change as circumstances may require.)

Lectures.

             
Monday  Tuesday  Wednesday  Thursday  Friday  Saturday 
9.30 to
11 
Prof. Graves.  Prof. Graves.  Prof. Graves.  Prof. Graves.  Prof. Graves.  Prof. Graves. 
2d year course.  1st year course.  2d year course.  1st year course.  2d year course.  1st year course. 
11 to 12.30  Prof. Minor.  Prof. Minor.  Prof. Minor.  Prof. Minor.  Prof. Minor.  Prof. Minor. 
1st year course.  2d year course.  1st year course.  2d year course.  1st year course  2d year course. 
12.30 to
Prof. Lile.  Prof. Lile.  Prof. Lile.  Prof. Lile.  Prof. Lile.  Prof. Lile. 
2d year course.  1st year course.  2d year course.  1st year course.  2d year course.  1st year course. 

* For several months after Christmas, Professor Minor will substitute one lecture to the first year class at three
o'clock in the afternoon in place of one of his morning lectures. For practice court hour, see p. 169, note.

Examinations, 1907-'08.

 

FIRST YEAR.

             
Persons (I)  Nov. 26 
Contracts  Dec. 21 
Criminal Law and Procedure  Jan. 20 
Persons (II)  Feb. 29 
Constitutional and International Law  May 8 
Mercantile Law  May 22 
Torts and Carriers  June 4 
 

SECOND YEAR.

               
Real Property (I)  Nov. 19 
Pleading and Practice (I)  Dec. 13 
Equity and Bankruptcy  Jan. 31 
Pleading and Practice (II)  March 9 
Real Property (II)  March 24 
Conflict of Laws  May 16 
Evidence  May 28 
Corporations  June 7 
 
 
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The first year Law Course may be substituted for certain electives in the
College by candidates for the degree of Bachelor of Arts.