University of Virginia Library

DEPARTMENT OF LAW.

Edwin Anderson Alderman, Ph.B., D.C.L., LL.D.

President.

William Minor Lile, LL.D.

Dean.

                           

WILLIAM MINOR LILE, LL.D.	James Madison Professor of Law
CHARLES ALFRED GRAVES, M.A., LL.D.	Professor of Law
[1] RALEIGH COLSTON MINOR, M.A., LL.B.	James Monroe Professor of Law
ARMISTEAD MASON DOBIE, M.A., LL.B., S.J.D.	Professor of Law
GEORGE BOARDMAN EAGER, JR., B.A., LL.B.	Professor of Law
CHARLES WAKEFIELD PAUL	Associate Professor of Public Speaking
THEODORE SULLIVAN COX, B.A., LL.B.	Assistant
JOHN AMBLER	Student Assistant
VAN WIRT MARSHALL ANDREWS, B.A.	Student Assistant
WILLIAM HENRY FOULK, B.A.	Student Assistant
LEONARD GASTON MUSE, B.A.	Student Assistant
CURTIS SIMPSON	Student Assistant
CATHERINE REBECCA LIPOP	Law Librarian
HARTER F. WRIGHT	Assistant Law Librarian

Inquiries with reference to Entrance Requirments should be addressed
to the Dean of the University.

For information as to lodging, board, expenses, etc., and for catalogues
and other printed matter, address the Registrar.

A General Catalogue containing more detailed information with respect
to the University as a whole, may be had on application to the Registrar.

For other information, address the Dean of the Department of Law.

Historical.—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.

From the establishment of the Law School until 1894, the course comprised
the work of a single year. With the session of 1894-1895, a two years'
course was inaugurated, which continued up to the session of 1909-1910,
when the course was extended to three years.

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 are 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 which the graduates of the Law School are
accustomed to attain at the bar and 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.

Minor Hall.—The Law School is accommodated in its own building,
designated as Minor Hall, in honor of the late John B. Minor, whose distinguished
service of fifty years as a professor in the Law School, the
University thus commemorates. The building is located between Dawson's
Row and the southern end of West Range. The architecture is on classic
lines, in keeping with the general design of the other university buildings.
It contains on the first floor four large lecture halls, with convenient offices,
lavatories, etc., and on the second floor a stack room with ample space for
books, two commodious reading rooms, and a number of offices for the use
of the librarian and the teaching staff.

Law Library.—The Library contains sixteen thousand volumes. Its
financial resources, from appropriations by the Visitors, and from income
from special endowments, make possible substantial additions annually. The
Library contains the English Reports, practically complete, from and including
the Year Books to date; the United States Supreme Court Reports;
reports of all the American States; the National Reporter System, complete;
selected and annotated reports, together with modern search-books in the
form of general Digests, and the leading Encyclopedias, besides a large
collection of textbooks, bound volumes of law magazines, etc. Law students
have the privileges of the general University Library, containing more than
ninety thousand volumes.

The Library is the beneficiary of three special endowments: one of
$10,000, the gift of William W. Fuller, Esq. ('78); another of $10,000, the
gift of Farrell Dabney Minor, Esq. ('83) and Mrs. Minor, in memory of
their son, the late Lieutenant Farrell Dabney Minor, Jr. ('11), who died in
France (1918), from wounds received in battle; and one of $5,100, the gift
of the Coolidge Family of Boston as a memorial to their distinguished ancestor
Thomas Jefferson.

Since the publication of the last catalogue, Judge George Moffett Harrison
(LL.B. 1870) judge of the Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia from
1895 to 1917, and president of the Court from 1916 to 1917, has presented
his entire well selected law library of several hundred volumes to the Law
School; and the Honorable John Bassett Moore (1880), Permanent Court
of International Justice at the Hague, has donated an especially fine collection
of books on International Law, designated as the John Bassett Moore
Library of International Law, which is regularly receiving additions through
the generosity of the donor.

The Virginia Law Review.—Under the title of The Virginia Law Review,
the undergraduate students of the Law School conduct a law journal devoted

to the discussion of general questions of American jurisprudence.
Eight numbers are issued annually, from October to May inclusive. The
Review is now in its ninth volume. From its inception it has maintained a
high standard of excellence, and a worthy rank among the leading law journals
of the country.

Association of American Law Schools.—The Law School is a member
of the Association of American Law Schools.

ENTRANCE REQUIREMENTS.

Suggestions as to Preliminary Education.—Students, and their parents
or guardians, are admonished that the law is peculiarly an intellectual profession,
and for its successful prosecution, whether in a law school or in the
broader fields of professional life, demands a well-trained mind. If it be
true that untrained recruits, in rare instances, under diligent and persistent
effort, develop into successful practitioners after entrance upon the practice,
such exceptional cases but serve to illustrate the rule that out of a
given number of candidates entering upon the study of law, those with
sound preliminary training will have incomparably the advantage, while
those without such training are likely never to rise above mediocrity in their
profession.

The experience of the Law Faculty, and, indeed, of all law teachers, is,
that the standing and progress of law students may, in general, be measured
by their academic preparation. Students are therefore advised not to begin
their legal studies until they have completed an academic course approximating
that required for a baccalaureate degree. So high a standard, however,
is not exacted as a condition of entrance into the Law School. These
conditions are shown in the following sections.

1. Regular Students.—Candidates for the degree of Bachelor of Laws
must have attained the age of at least nineteen years before entering the
department, must produce a certificate of good character from the school
or college last attended, or from other satisfactory source, and must conform
to the general requirements following:

For Admission to the Department of Law, in addition to the completion
of an approved high school course of four years, or its equivalent, the
candidate must present evidence that he has pursued at least two years of
standard college work, of which he must have successfully completed at
least twenty-four session-hours, distributed among three or more courses,
and exclusive of courses in Art, Music, Commercial Law, Education (Course
B3, as described in the bulletin of the Department of Education of this University,
or its equivalent completed elsewhere, will be accepted), Physical
or Military Training, and Public Speaking.

A session-hour is one hour a week of recitation, or two hours a week
of laboratory work, throughout the college year.

Credit will be given for completed courses only. A completed course

is one for which the student is entitled to final credit toward a baccalaureate
degree.

It is deemed advisable that in preparation for entering the Law School
the student select his courses from among the following subjects: English,
Latin, French or Spanish, History, a Natural Science, Mathematics, Government,
Accounting, and for students of more than average maturity Economics,
Logic and Ethics.

Prospective law students should take notice that the minimum college
hours here indicated may be enlarged by 1923-24 to 30 hours.

Admission of Women.—With the beginning of the session 1920-21,
women were admitted to the Law School for the first time. The conditions
of their admission are the same as in the case of male applicants.

Forensic Debating.—As indicated in a preceding regulation, Forensic
Debating is excluded from the category of courses accepted in fulfillment
of entrance requirements. This course, however, as one of the required
subjects in the regular curriculum of the Law School, may be substituted by
the completion of an equivalent course in the College of this university, or
other institution of collegiate rank, evidenced by proper certificate. But the
student is advised to defer the pursuit of this course until entrance into the
Law School.

The High School Subjects for Admission to the College, and their values
in units are indicated in the General Catalogue of the University, in connection
with that department.

Evidence of the Required High School and College Work must be in
the form of a certificate, properly authenticated by the Registrar or other
authorized official of the institution at which the work was done.

2. Special Students.—An applicant who is at least 23 years old, and who
presents proper evidence of good character, and of needful maturity and
training, though unable to fulfill the foregoing entrance requirements, may,
by special action of the Law Faculty, in exceptional cases, be admitted as a
special student, and not as a candidate for the degree.

Every applicant for admission as a special student is required to make
written application to the Dean of the University, on a blank furnished for
the purpose, with detailed information as to his age, general habits, his educational
and business experience, and his general fitness to undertake the
study of law. Such application, together with such testimonials as may be
required, should be filed with the Dean of the University not later than
September 1 of the year in which the applicant desires to enter the Law
School.

Every such applicant for admission as a special student must (if required)
pass a satisfactory examination, to be held at the University during
the registration days of the session. The examination, which will be conducted
by a committee of the Law Faculty, may include the subjects of
English, American and English History, and Civil Government.

This regulation is subject to the general university regulation as to delayed
entrance examinations.

Special students who fail to complete 60 per cent. of the work taken
during any session may be declared ineligible for readmission the following
session.

Admission with Credits.—No advanced standing, or other credit, is given,
in any case, for attendance at another law school, nor for time spent in
private reading.[2] The candidate for graduation must spend three years in
residence, and pursue all required courses in the curriculum, and pass the
regular examinations therein.

GENERAL INFORMATION.

The Session begins on the Thursday preceding the nineteenth of September,
and continues for thirty-nine weeks ending about June 15. The first
three days of the session are given to registration, and all students, both old
and new, are required during that time to place their names upon the books
of the University and the rolls of their respective classes. Lecture courses
begin on the Monday following, and absences will be recorded against any
student not present from the opening lecture of each course. Students entering
after the first three days, without satisfactory excuse, will be charged a
fee for registration.

The session is divided into Three Terms. The first term ends December
21; the second, March 21; and the third, with the close of the session.

Late Entrance.—Students are advised that late entrance upon the work
of any term is a serious hindrance to progress. The student who enters
late must begin his work at the point to which the several courses have advanced
at the time of his entrance; and credit for three years' attendance
cannot be secured unless the student is in actual residence at least thirty
weeks per session. No registration in absentia is permissible.

When Students May Enter.—It is highly desirable that students of any
year, and particularly those entering the work of the first year, should enter
at the beginning of the year's work which they propose to pursue.
Where this is impossible students may register at the beginning of the second
term, but no later, save in exceptional cases. In case of such late entrance
the student's chief handicap (often a serious one) will be lack of familiarity
with preceding courses, on some of which his own work may be
based. Entrance at the beginning of the later term, therefore, is not advised,
but only permitted. Where the student has thus entered in a later
term, he may not make up the work of the earlier term except by returning
for such portion of a fourth year as is covered by the term omitted.

Expenses.—The necessary expenses of a student in the Department of
Law may be estimated at $500 per session of nine months. This minimum
estimate includes all university and tuition fees, board, lodging, laundry and

books. An average estimate would be $600 per session, reckoning living expenses
at a somewhat higher figure. The university fee applicable to all law
students (including those from Virginia) is $40; and the tuition fee is $160
for the regular work of each session.

Three Years' Course.—The course of study embraces three years of
thirty-seven weeks each, exclusive of holidays. Residence for three years,
with attendance of at least thirty weeks a year, exclusive of holidays, is essential
to graduation.

Plan of Instruction.—The instruction is sought to be made as thorough
as possible, and is given mainly through textbooks and lectures, supplemented
in some of the courses by the study of cases. While convinced of
the value of the combined textbook and lecture system, which has prevailed
for more than half a century in the Law School, the Law Faculty have long
appreciated the value that the study of cases possesses, in illustrating the
practical application of legal principles. The present organization of the
Law School gives opportunity for more emphasis on this form of instruction,
and the case-book is now used more extensively than heretofore—not as supplanting,
but as supplementing, textbooks and lectures.

The daily oral quiz has long been a marked and, as experience has
proved, a most valuable feature of the system of instruction. This oral
quiz is supplemented by frequent written tests, the results of which are
carefully recorded, and, in the professor's discretion, are considered in estimating
the final grade of the student.

Practical Work.—In the procedural courses, in Forensic Debating, and
in Legal Bibliography and Brief Making, special stress is laid upon practical
work. In the course on Legal Bibliography and Brief Making, an intimate
acquaintance with law books and skill in their use are secured by oral and
written quizzes, and finally by practical tests; and briefs on assigned topics
are required to be prepared according to rigorous standards. Much practical
work is done in the headnoting of cases, on scientific principles.

Required for Graduation.—The degree of Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) is
conferred upon such students as have satisfied the entrance requirements;
have attended three full sessions of the Law School and have successfully
passed the required examinations, with satisfactory performance of assigned
practical work.

More specifically, the candidate for graduation must have completed all
of the obligatory courses (see Outline of Courses, below), and at least two
elective courses, one of which must be Virginia Pleading or Code Pleading.

SCHOLARSHIPS.

The Louis Bennett Scholarship in the Department of Law, with a
yearly income of two hundred and fifty dollars. Founded in 1920 by Mrs.
Sallie Maxwell Bennett in memory of her husband, Hon. Louis Bennett,
'71, of Weston, W. Va. The holder must be a deserving young man, preference
being given to students from West Virginia. In case there are no applicants
from West Virginia the award is to be made to a student from Virginia.

Appointment will be made upon the recommendation of the Dean
of the Department of Law.

The Virginia Law Review Scholarship in the Department of Law, with
an income of two hundred dollars. Founded in 1914. Annually awarded
to the Editor-in-Chief of the Virginia Law Review.

The William E. Homes Scholarship in the Department of Law, with
a yearly income of sixty dollars. Founded in 1920 upon the bequest of
Peter P. Homes, '13, in honor of his father, Judge William E. Homes, '69,
of Boydton, Virginia. Annually awarded to the Notes Editor of the Virginia
Law Review.

The Daniel Harmon Scholarship in the Department of Law; emolument,
the remission of the tuition and university fees. Founded in 1912
"in consideration of the distinguished service rendered by Daniel Harmon,
'82, as a member of the Board of Visitors." The holder must be "a young
Virginian of ability, character, and need."

The Charles Minor Blackford Prize in the Department of Law was established
through the liberality of Mrs. Susan Colston Blackford, of Lynchburg,
Va., in memory of her husband, the late Charles Minor Blackford, a
distinguished alumnus of the Law School. The prize consists of fifty dollars
in cash, and is awarded each year to a student in the Department of Law
for the best essay on some legal or sociological subject.

General Scholarships.—There are other scholarships applicable to all departments.
These are described in the General University Catalogue. Special
inquiries with reference to these scholarships should be addressed to
the Dean of the University.

THE WILLIAM H. WHITE FOUNDATION.

This Foundation was established in 1922 by a gift of $10,000.00, by Mrs.
Emma Gray White, widow, Mrs. Emma Gray Trigg, daughter, and W. H.
Landon White and William H. White, Jr., sons, of the late William H.
White, a distinguished Alumnus and for many years a Visitor of the University.
The conditions require that the income be used in securing each
session the delivery before the University Law School of a series of lectures,
preferably not less than three in number, by a jurist or publicist, who is
specially distinguished in some branch of jurisprudence, domestic, international,
or foreign; that the lecturer present some fresh or unfamiliar aspect
of his subject. Each series of lectures shall possess such unity that they may
be published in book form; and that the copyright thereof shall vest in the
Foundation.

OUTLINE OF COURSES.

The schedule, as outlined below, contemplates an average of ten
lecture periods (or fifteen hours) per week.

Written examinations are held during the final week of each term, on
the subjects completed during the term. See Schedule of Examinations.

TABULAR OUTLINE OF COURSES.

[Asterisks indicate elective courses.—Lecture periods are one and a half hours
each.]

                                                                                                 

FIRST YEAR.
FIRST TERM.	Periods per week	Total periods
Study of Cases—Legal Bibliography—Brief Making— Cooley's Brief Making; Wambaugh's Study of Cases: the Professor's Printed Notes. Professor Lile	2	26
Contracts. Clark on Contracts: Huffcutt and Woodruff's Cases on Contracts: the Professor's Printed Notes. Professor Graves	4	52
Criminal Law. Mikell's Cases on Criminal Law. Professor Dobie	2	26
Domestic Relations. Long on Domestic Relations. Professor Eager	2	26
SECOND TERM.
Torts, including Master and Servant. Chapin on Torts; Chase's Cases on Torts; the Professor's Printed Notes; Burks' Printed Notes. Professor Graves	4	40
Bailments and Carriers. Dobie on Bailments and Carriers; Dobie's Cases on Bailments and Carriers. Professor Dobie	3	30
Agency. Mechem's Principles of Agency; Mechem's Cases. Professor Eager	2	20
THIRD TERM.
Negotiable Instruments. Bigelow on Bills, Notes and Cheques; the Negotiable Instruments Law; the Professor's Printed Notes. Professor Lile	2	20
International Law. Davis' Elements of International Law. Professor Minor	2	20
Sales. Williston's Cases on Sales. Professor Dobie	2	20
Insurance. Vance on Insurance. Professor Eager	3	30
SECOND YEAR.
FIRST TERM.
Equity Jurisprudence. Merwin's Principles of Equity; the Professor's Printed Notes. Professor Lile	4	52
Common Law Pleading. Burks on Pleading and Practice; Sunderland's Cases; the Professor's Printed Notes and Questions. Professor Graves	2	26
Real Property (begun). Minor on Real Property. Professor Minor	4	52
SECOND TERM.
Private Corporations. Clark on Corporations; the Virginia Corporation Act; Wormser's Cases on Private Corporations. Professor Lile	4	40
*Pleading in Virginia. Burks on Pleading and Practice; the Professor's Printed Notes. Professor Graves	2	20
Real Property (concluded). Minor on Real Property. Professor Minor	3	26
Constitutional Law (begun). Minor's Notes on Government; Black's Constitutional Law. Professor Minor	3	4
*Code Pleading. Sunderland's Cases on Code Pleading. Professor Dobie	2	20
*Admiralty. Hughes on Admiralty. Professor Eager	2	20
THIRD TERM.
Practice of Law, including Extraordinary Remedies. Burks on Pleading and Practice; Graves' Printed Notes. Professor Eager	3	30
Constitutional Law (concluded). Minor's Notes on Government; Black's Constitutional Law. Professor Minor	4	40
Taxation. Beale's Cases on Taxation. Professor Dobie	2	20
THIRD YEAR.
FIRST TERM.
Criminal Procedure. Beale on Criminal Pleading and Practice; the Professor's Printed Notes. Professor Minor	2	26
Wills and Administration. Costigan's Cases on Wills. Professor Dobie	2	26
Bankruptcy. Holbrook and Aigler's Cases. Professor Eager	2	26
Partnership. Mechem's Elements of Partnership. Professor Eager	2	26
Forensic Debating[3] (begun). Professor Paul	1	13
SECOND TERM.
Equity Procedure. Lile's Equity Pleading and Practice. Professor Lile	2	20
Conflict of Laws and Jurisdictions. Minor on the Conflict of Laws. Professor Minor	3	30
Federal Jurisdiction and Procedure. Wheaton's Cases on Federal Procedure. Professor Dobie	3	30
*Damages. Hale on Damages. Professor Eager	2	20
Forensic Debating (continued). Professor Paul	1	10
THIRD TERM.
Public Corporations. Macy's Cases on Municipal Corporations; the Professor's Printed Notes. Professor Lile	2	20
Legal Ethics. Costigan's Cases on Legal Ethics; Cohen's The Law—Business or Profession?; the Code of Ethics of the American Bar Association; Answers to Questions by the Committee of the New York County Bar Association on Professional Ethics. Professor Lile	2	20
Evidence. Greenleaf on Evidence (16th edition by Wigmore); Throckmorton's Cases; the Professor's Printed Notes. Professor Graves	6	60
Forensic Debating (concluded). Professor Paul	1	10

CONDENSED TABLE OF COURSES.
(Subject to Alteration.)

                                                                     

FIRST YEAR		SECOND YEAR		THIRD YEAR
First Term—September 15 to December 16—13 Weeks.[4]
	Periods per week		Periods per week		Periods per week
Professor Lile		Professor Lile		Professor Minor
Study of Cases	2	Equity Jurisprudence	4	Criminal Procedure	2
Legal Bibliography		Professor Graves		Professor Dobie
Brief Making		Common Law Pleading	2	Wills and Administration	2
Professor Graves		Professor Minor
Contracts	4	Real Property (begun)	4	Professor Eager
Professor Dobie				Bankruptcy	2
Criminal Law	2			Partnership	2
Professor Eager				Professor Paul
Domestic Relations	2			Forensic Debating (begun)	1
Second Term—January 3 to March 14—10 Weeks.[4]
Professor Graves		Professor Lile		Professor Lile
Torts	4	Private Corporations	4	Equity Procedure	2
Professor Dobie		Professor Graves		Professor Minor
Bailments and Carriers	3	[5] Pleading in Virginia	2	Conflict of Laws	3
Professor Eager		Professor Minor		Professor Dobie
Agency	2	Real Property (concluded)	3	Federal Jurisdiction and Procedure	3
		Constitutional Law (begun)		Professor Eager
				[5] Damages	2
		Professor Eager		Professor Paul
		[5] Admiralty	2	Forensic Debating (continued)	1
		Professor Dobie
		[5] Code Pleading	2
Third Term—March 22 to May 31—10 Weeks.[4]
Professor Lile		Professor Eager		Professor Lile
Negotiable Inst.	2	Practice at Law	3	Public Corporations	2
Professor Minor		Professor Minor		Legal Ethics	2
International Law	2	Constitutional Law (concluded)	4	Professor Graves
Professor Dobie				Evidence	6
Sales	2	Professor Dobie		Professor Paul
Professor Eager		Taxation	2	Forensic Debating (concluded)	1
Insurance	3

SCHEDULE OF LECTURES.
(Subject to such alteration as the faculty may deem necessary.)

                         

FIRST TERM
Hours	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday
9:00 to 10:30	(2) Real Property (3) Forens. Debating[6] (i)	(1) Criminal Law (3) Bankruptcy	(1) Domestic Rel. (2) Real Property (3) Forens. Deb. (iii)	(1) Criminal Law (3) Bankruptcy	(1) Domestic Rel. (2) Real Property (3) Forens. Deb. (iv)	(2) Real Property
10:30 to 12:00	(3) Partnership	(2) Com. Law Pleading	(3) Wills and Admin.	(2) Com. Law Pleading	(3) Wills and Admin.	(3) Partnership
12:00 to 1:30	(1) Contracts (2) Equity Jurisp. (3) Forens. Deb. (ii)	(1) Brief Making (3) Criminal Procedure	(1) Contracts (2) Equity Jurisp.	(1) Brief Making (3) Criminal Procedure	(1) Contracts (2) Equity Jurisp.	(1) Contracts (2) Equity Jurisp.
SECOND TERM
9:00 to 10:30	(2) Real Property Constitutional Law (3) Forens. Debating (i)	(1) Bailments & Carriers (2) Admiralty (3) Conflict of Laws	(2) Real Property Constitutional Law (3) Damages	(1) Bailments & Carriers (2) Admiralty (3) Conflict of Laws	(2) Real Property Constitutional Law (3) Damages	(1) Bailments & Carriers (3) Conflict of Laws
10:30 to 12:00	(1) Torts (3) Forens. Deb. (ii)	(2) Virginia Pleading	(1) Torts (3) Forens. Deb. (iii)	(2) Virginia Pleading	(1) Torts (3) Forens. Deb. (iv)	(1) Torts
12:00 to 1:30	(2) Private Corporations (3) Fed. Jurisd. & Proc.	(1) Agency (2) Code Pleading (3) Equity Procedure.	(2) Private Corporations (3) Fed. Jurisd. & Proc.	(1) Agency (2) Code Pleading (3) Equity Procedure	(2) Private Corporations (3) Fed. Jurisd. & Proc.	(2) Private Corporations
THIRD TERM
9:00 to 10:30	(2) Constitutional Law (3) Evidence	(1) International Law (2) Taxation (3) Evidence	(2) Constitutional Law (3) Evidence	(1) International Law (2) Taxation (3) Evidence	(1) Sales (3) Evidence (2) Constitutional Law	(1) Sales (2) Constitutional Law (3) Evidence
10:30 to 12:00	(3) Forens. Debating (i)		(3) Forens. Deb. (ii)		(3) Forens. Deb. (iv)
12:00 to 1:30	(1) Insurance (3) Public Corp.	(1) Negotiable Inst. (2) Practice at Law	(1) Negotiable Inst. (2) Practice at Law (3) Forens. Deb. (iii)	(1) Insurance (3) Legal Ethics	(1) Insurance (3) Legal Ethics	(2) Practice at Law (3) Public Corp.

SCHEDULE OF EXAMINATIONS.

Examinations are held on successive days during the last week of each
term, on all subjects completed during the term and in the order indicated
below.

Examinations in courses marked (a) are held in the afternoon.

                           

	First Term	Second Term	Third Term
1.	Contracts	Federal Procedure	Constitutional Law
	Bankruptcy (a)	Bailments and Car. (a)	Negotiable Inst. (a)
2.	Real Property (I)	Real Property (II)	Evidence
3.	Criminal Law (a)	Conflict of Laws	Legal Ethics (a)
		Admiralty (a)
4.	Wills and Adm.	Torts	Sales
		Equity Procedure (a)
5.	Equity Jurisprudence	Private Corporations	Insurance
	Brief Making (a)	Damages (a)	Public Corporations (a)
6.	Criminal Procedure	Agency (a)	Practice at Law
		Domestic Relations (a)	International Law (a)
7.	Common Law Plead.	Code Pleading	Taxation (a)
	Partnership (a)	Virginia Pleading

GENERAL REGULATIONS.

1. Registration of New Students.—Before registration in the Law
School, students who have not before been registered in any department of
the University must produce to the Dean of the Law School (office in Minor
Hall) a certificate from the Dean of the University that entrance requirements
have been fulfilled.

2. Registration Generally.—Students must register in advance at the office
of the Dean of the Law School and with the Registrar for every course taken,
and no credit will be given for work done in any course without proper registration
therefor.

3. Delayed Registration.—Students are not permitted to delay their
registration through carelessness or for inadequate reasons. Any student,
new or old, who fails to present himself for registration during the first
three days of the session, and between the hours of nine a.m. and two p. m.
on the first week-day after the Christmas Recess, will be charged a special
registration fee of five dollars.

4. Exchange or Omission of Courses.—After registration no course may
be exchanged or omitted except on the written approval of the professor in
charge and of the Dean.

5. Carrying Over Uncompleted Work.—Students who are deficient in

the work of one year will be permitted to take but a limited amount of the
work of the succeeding year.

6. Minimum for Which Student Must Register.—No student, without
special permission, and for good cause, may register for less than nine periods
per week.

7. Advanced Work.—Students of one year are not permitted to anticipate
the courses of a subsequent year, without urgent reasons satisfactory
to the Dean.

8. Late Entrance into Classes.—No credit is given for the completion
of any course upon which the student has entered after fifty per centum of
the lectures thereon have been delivered. See requirements for Graduation.

9. Optional Attendance.—A student who has attended the required lectures
on any subject but has failed on the examination, may, on written
application, with the endorsed approval of the professor in charge, and of
the Dean, secure optional attendance on such subject the following session,
but subject to Regulation 5.

Re-examinations are granted only in this form, or in that designated in
Regulation 17, post.

10. General Requirements.—Every student of the Law School is required
to attend all regular exercises of the classes of which he is a member,
and to perform all the work assigned, including quizzes and examinations,
unless excused for good cause.

11. Invalids.—Students whose condition of health is too precarious to
permit regular attendance upon lectures, but not serious enough to admit
them as patients of the hospital, will be required to withdraw from the University
until able to resume their regular work.

12. Conditions of Readmission.—Any student who, without satisfactory
cause, has not attained for the session, on his examinations, credit for
courses comprising in the aggregate at least 150 lecture periods, will be excluded
from the Law School the following session.

In this connection, attention is called to Regulation 5 foregoing.

13. First-Year Students.—Failure on the part of any first-year student,
without just cause, to attain, for the first term, an average grade of 75 per
cent. on the daily written quizzes, will place such student on probation
for the remainder of the session, and the student and his parent or guardian
will be so notified. Unless, in the opinion of the Law Faculty, a decided
improvement in the character of his work is indicated at the end of the
second term, his resignation will be required.

14. Absence from the University is permitted on the written leave of
the dean of the Law School. But leaves of absence for the purpose of accompanying

the athletic teams or musical clubs on excursions will not be
granted, except to the officers and members of the organization. Nor, except
for good cause, may leaves be granted in anticipation or extension of
holidays.

15. Absence from Lectures may be excused by the professors for sickness
or other providential cause. Such excuses must be rendered promptly.
Unexcused absences from lectures render the student liable to be disciplined.

16. Special Examinations.—No special examinations are granted, save
in cases of sickness on the day of examination (attested by physician's certificate),
or for other imperative cause approved by the Law Faculty. In
no case will such examination be granted unless prompt application be made
therefor.

17. Third-Year Students—Incomplete Work.—Candidates for the degree,
who have failed on one or more subjects in any year, may return the
following session, and stand the regular examinations on such subjects,
without further attendance upon lectures. But this privilege may be exercised
but once—that is to say, after a second failure the candidate must
take the lectures over again, on the subject or subjects on which he has for
a second time proved deficient. See Regulation 9.

18. Examination Fees.—The fee for standing such examinations as are
mentioned in the preceding regulation is $5 for each examination taken.
Students who, under such circumstances, return for further lectures, and
who have paid full matriculation and tuition fees for three years, pay a matriculation
fee in proportion to the amount of work taken plus $5 for each
course.

There is no charge for special examinations granted for imperative cause.

19. Application for Degree.—Candidates for graduation are required to
file a written application with the Dean, not later than November 15th of
their third year, indicating the courses completed, together with a schedule
of the courses to be pursued during their final year. Blanks for this purpose
will be supplied at the Dean's office.

20. Required Withdrawal.—The right is reserved to require the withdrawal
of any student who, in the opinion of the faculty, is not profiting nor
likely to profit by the instruction offered; or whose neglect or irregular performance
of required duties, after admonition, indicates indifference or contumacy;
or whose character or habits are a menace to the good order of
the Law School.

21. Honor System.—All examinations are conducted under the Honor
System.