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MOOT COURT.

A Moot Court, with its accompanying instruction, tends to perfect
the student in the details of practice. Under the immediate supervision
of the professors, he is required to write opinions upon supposed cases;
to draw wills, contracts, conveyances, and other assurances; to devise
and institute remedies by suit or otherwise; to conduct actions at law
and suits in equity; to argue questions of law and of fact; and, in
short, to perform most of the functions of practising counsel.

The conduct of at least one case in the Moot Court is required of
every candidate for graduation. The court is presided over by the
members of the Law Faculty, and attendance on the part of every
student is compulsory. Much interest is added to the proceedings by
the open debate held after the argument of each case, the presiding
judge acting as interlocutor, and leading into the debate those whose
diffidence prompts them to silence.

The debating societies, of which there are several, also afford an
excellent field for the cultivation of the powers of oratory and debate.

Through the liberality of several of the leading law publishers, the
department is able to offer a number of valuable prizes for excellence
in the work of the Moot Court. During the session of 1897-98 the following
prizes were awarded:

1. The WEST PUBLISHING COMPANY Prize—American Annual
Digest, 10 volumes—To E. Lee Trinkle, B. L., of Wytheville, Va.

2. The BANCROFT-WHITNEY COMPANY Prize—Rapalje's Digest of
the American Decisions and Reports, and Mack's and Church's
Digests of the American State Reports, 5 volumes—To James H.
Corbitt, M. A., University of Virginia.

3. The BOSTON BOOK COMPANY Prize—The Green Bag (bound) 3
volumes—To Gordon M. Buck, B. A., B. L., of New Orleans, La.

4. The BANKS & BROTHERS Prize—Kerr on Real Property, 3 volumes—To
Henry Wise Mayo, B. L., of Richmond, Va.

5. The CENTRAL LAW JOURNAL COMPANY Prize—Beach on Trusts
and Trustees, 2 volumes—To Lewis C. Williams, M. A., of Orange,
Va.

6. The BAKER, VOORHIS & COMPANY Prize—Daniel on Negotiable
Instruments, 2 volumes—To Junius P. Wilson, of Portsmouth, Va.

7. The LITTLE, BROWN & CO. Prize—Kent's Commentaries, 4 volumes—To
C. McK. Owsley, B. L., of Lancaster, Ky.

8. The T. & J. W. JOHNSON & COMPANY Prize—Smith's Leading Cases,
3 volumes—To Charles W. Miller, A. B., B. L., of Irvine, Ky.

9. The VIRGINIA LAW REGISTER Prize—The Virginia Law Register
(bound), 3 volumes—To J. Mercer Garnett, Jr., of Baltimore, Md.

10. The LAWYERS CO-OPERATIVE PUBLISHING COMPANY Prize—
The General Digest (New Series), 3 volumes—To Theodore S.
Garnett, Jr., B. L., of Norfolk, Va.

In addition to the foregoing prizes in connection with the work of
the Moot Court, the following prizes were awarded for theses on a subject
assigned by the Law Faculty, in a competition open to all members
of the Law School. Subject: "The Extraterritorial Effect of
Divorce, as Amongst the Several States."

1. The EDWARD THOMPSON CO. Prize—American and English Encyclopedia
of Law (2d ed.), 30 volumes—To Brutus J. Clay, A. B.,
B. L., of Paris, Ky.

2. The BOWEN-MERRILL COMPANY PRIZE—Elliott's General
Practice, 3 volumes—To John L. Templeman, A. B., of McKune,
Kansas.

3. The F. H. THOMAS LAW BOOK COMPANY Prize—Tiedeman's Limitations
of the Police Power, and Lieber's Hermeneutics, 2 volumes—To
William H. Hill, of Nebraska City, Neb.

The following gentlemen served as ministerial officers of the Moot
Court for the session of 1898-99.

Clerk: Homer C. Sherritt, Charlottesville, Va.

Sheriff: John E. Nottingham, Jr., Franktown, Va.