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.
