8. Pleading and Practice.
Professor Graves.
In this class the subjects are Pleading and Practice at common law,
and under the Virginia Statutes; Code Pleading; 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 and under
the codes; 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 lawsuit 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 15 to March 9—Three times a week.
Text-Books.—4 Minor's Institutes (3d edition).
Bryant's Code Pleading.
Dabney's Federal Jurisdiction and Law Procedure.
The Professor's Printed Notes.
