University of Virginia record :: February 1, 1915 :: University of Virginia Library

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 1894-95, a two
years' course was inaugurated, which continued up to the session of
1909-10, 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 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 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.

Minor Hall.—By action of the Visitors, the new home of the Law
School has been named Minor Hall, in honor of the late John B. Minor,
whose distinguished service of fifty years as a professor of 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. Liberal provision
has been made for heat, light, and ventilation. Special care has
been taken to provide comfortable seats and desks in the lecture halls.

Law Library.—The Library contains about fourteen thousand volumes.
Its financial resources, from appropriations by the Visitors, and from an
endowment of ten thousand dollars by Mr. W. W. Fuller ('78) of New
York City, make possible the addition of several hundred volumes annually.
The Library contains the English Reports, 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; modern
selected and annotated reports, such as the American Decisions, Reports
and State Reports, Lawyers Reports Annotated, American and English
Annotated Cases, English Ruling Cases, etc., together with modern search-books
in the form of general Digests (including the Century and Decennial
editions), and the leading Encyclopedias, besides a large collection of textbooks,
bound volumes of law magazines, etc. Law students have all the

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privileges of the general University Library, containing more than sixty
thousand volumes, without extra charge.

Suggestions as to Preliminary Education.—Students, and their parents
or guardians, are warned that the law is peculiarly an intellectual profession,
and demands for its successful prosecution, whether in a law school
or in the broader fields of professional life, 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 young men entering upon the study of law, those with sound
preliminary training will have incomparably the advantage, while those
without it 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 may, in general, be measured
by their academic preparation. Young gentlemen are therefore advised
not to begin their legal studies until they have completed an academic
course approximating that required for the degree of Bachelor of Arts.
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.

ENTRANCE REQUIREMENTS.

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

For Admission to the Department of Law the candidate must offer
fourteen units as specified below; of these three must be in English, two
and one-half in Mathematics, one in History, and residue selected at will.

The Subjects accepted for Admission and their values in units are
given in tabulated form on page 7. The applicant for admission may enter
(1) by certificate or (2) by examination.

(1) For Admission by Certificate the candidate must file with the
dean of the University not later than September first a Certificate of
Preparation, made out on the blank form furnished by the University.
This certificate must come from some recognized institution of collegiate
rank or from an accredited high school; but admission by certificate from
accredited public high schools in Virginia is extended only to graduates
from four-year high schools. The certificate must bear in all cases the
signature of the head of the school; must specify the character and content
of each course offered for entrance credit; must give the length of time

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devoted to the course, and the dates of the examinations; and must give
the candidate's grades in percentages. Each unit in the entrance requirements
is the equivalent of one full year of high-school work, including
five periods a week of at least forty minutes each during not less than
thirty-six weeks. For schools in which the number of periods given to
any study, or the length of the period, is below the standard here specified,
the credit for such study will be reduced pro rata. In the scientific subjects
two hours of laboratory instruction will be counted as the equivalent of
one hour of recitation. High-school courses in Physics and Chemistry,
otherwise adequate, will be allowed half credit, when individual laboratory
work is not done by the student or is not attested by proper note-books
filed with the certificate. Certificates of preparation from private tutors
will in no case be accepted; students thus prepared must in all cases take
the Entrance Examinations.

(2) For Admission by Examination the candidate must present himself
for test at the University in June or September, according to the dates
given in the Programme of Entrance Examinations, which may be had
by applying to the Registrar. The examinations are held under the honor
system, no paper being accepted unless accompanied by the usual pledge.
All candidates who take their examinations at the times appointed are
tested free of charge. In case of delayed entrance, where the grounds of
postponement are good, the President of the University may admit the
candidate to a special examination, for which an additional fee of five
dollars is charged. The fee is payable in advance and is in no case
returned. Satisfactory certificates as to character and age are in all cases
required.

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SUBJECTS ACCEPTED FOR ADMISSION.

Subject	Topics	Units
English A	Grammar and Grammatical Analysis	1
English B	Composition and Rhetoric	1
English C	Critical Study of Specimens of English Literature	1
English D	History of English and American Literature	1
Mathematics A	Algebra to Quadratic Equations	1
Mathematics B	Quadratics, Progressions and the Binomial Formula	½
Mathematics C	Plane Geometry	1
Mathematics D1	Solid Geometry	½
Mathematics D2	Plane Trigonometry	½
History A	Greek and Roman History	1
History B	Mediæval and Modern European History	1
History C	English History	1
History D	American History and Civil Government	1
Latin A	Grammar, Composition, and Translation	1
Latin B	Cæsar's Gallic War, I-IV; Grammar; Composition	1
Latin C	Cicero's Orations (6); Grammar; Composition	1
Latin D	Virgil's Æneid, I-VI; Grammar; Composition	1
Greek A	Elementary Grammar, Composition, and Translation	1
Greek B	Xenophon's Anabasis, I-IV; Grammar; Composition	1
German	Grammar, Composition, and Translation	2
French	Grammar, Composition, and Translation	2
Spanish	Grammar, Composition, and Translation	2
Science A	Physical Geography	1
Science B	Inorganic Chemistry	1
Science C	Experimental Physics	1
Science D	Botany	½
Science E	Zoölogy	½
Science F	Agricultural (special schools)	2
Drawing	Mechanical and Projection Drawing	1
Shop-Work	Wood-Work, Forging, and Machine-Work	1

Conditioned Students.—A candidate who can not meet the full entrance
requirement of fourteen units may be admitted with conditions on any
two units except English A and B. All conditions must be absolved before
the beginning of the session following initial registration. This may be
done by private study or by taking courses in the University or in the
Summer School.

Special Students.—A candidate may be admitted as a special student
without fulfilling the entrance requirements above specified, provided he
is more than twenty years old on the day of registration, and gives
adequate evidence of serious purpose and of the needful training. No

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special student may be a candidate for the degree; but such students are
permitted and encouraged to make up their deficiencies by private study
or by taking courses in the University or in the Summer School. They will
then be admitted as regular students, and may be accepted as applicants
for the degree, provided all entrance requirements are met at least one
academic year before the date of graduation.

With the admonition that over-zealousness is apt to beguile an
ambitious student into the assumption of more work than he can thoroughly
master in a given time, leading to cramming and inaccuracy, and often to
complete failure, the special student is free to select his own work, within
reasonable limits.

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 three years in residence.

The Session begins on the Thursday preceding the nineteenth of
September, and continues for thirty-nine weeks. The session comprises
thirty-six weeks exclusive of holidays. 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 upon the
following Monday, and absences will be recorded against any student not
present, from the opening lecture of each course. Students entering after
the first three days will be charged a fee for registration.

Late Entrance.—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 three years' attendance can not be secured unless the student
is in actual residence at least thirty weeks per session. No registration
in absentia is permissible.

As regards conditions of admission in case of late entrance, reference
is made to the General Regulations, which will be found on page 208.

Expenses.—The necessary expenses of a student in the Department
of Law may be estimated at $350 per session of nine months. This
minimum estimate includes all university and tuition fees, board, lodging,
washing, and books. An average estimate would be $450 per session,
reckoning board, lodging, washing, and books at a somewhat higher figure.
The university fee applicable to all law students (including those from
Virginia) is $40; and the tuition fee is $100 for the regular work of each
session. For special students who desire to take selected courses, the
tuition fee is estimated according to the ratio which the work chosen bears
to the whole.

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

Plan of Instruction.—The course is planned with a view to acquainting
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 lectures, and partly through the study of cases. While
convinced of the value of the combined text-book and lecture system, which
has prevailed for more than half a century in the Law School, and from
which, in the inauguration of the more extended course, it is not meant
in any wise to depart, the Law Faculty have long appreciated the value
which the study of cases possesses, in illustrating the practical application
of legal principles, and in forcing the student to extract for himself the
doctrine which the cases establish. The enlargement of the course gives
opportunity for more emphasis upon this form of instruction, and the
case-book will, therefore, be used more extensively than heretofore—not
as supplanting, but as supplementing, the text-book and lecture.

The daily oral 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 misconception of legal principles on
the part of the student.

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.

Legal Argumentation.—Beginning with the session of 1913-14, an
advanced course on Legal Argumentation was added to the list of elective
courses. This course, supplemented by the courses in Brief-Making and
Forensic Debating, absorbs the work formerly done by the Law Debating
Society.

Practical Work.—In the course of Equity Procedure, Virginia Pleading,
Practice at Law, Code Pleading, Criminal Procedure, and Legal
Bibliography and Brief Making, special stress is laid upon practical work.
In the Pleading and Procedure courses, every student is required to draw,
and submit for correction and criticism, all of the principal pleadings,
orders, decrees, and other forms usual in actual litigation. In the course

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on Legal Bibliography and Brief Making, familiarity with Law books and
their use is secured by lectures and demonstrations in the presence of the
books followed by oral and written quizzes, and finally by practical tests;
and briefs on assigned topics are required to be prepared according to
rigorous standards.

Required for Graduation.—The degree of Bachelor of Laws (LL. B.)
is conferred upon such students as have attained the age of twenty-one
years; 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 either the course in Virginia
Pleading or that in Code Pleading.

It follows that of the courses termed "elective," a required minimum
is in fact obligatory—the candidate being permitted to exercise an election
among them.

OUTLINE OF COURSES.

The course as outlined below contemplates an average of ten lecture
periods (or 15 hours) per week.

Each session is divided into three terms.

Written examinations are held during the final week of each term,
on the subjects completed during the term, with the exception of the
examination in Forensic Debating, which is held at the end of the session.
See Schedule of Examinations, p. 207.

The following outline indicates the extent of the courses offered.

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TABULAR OUTLINE OF COURSES.

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

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FIRST YEAR.
FIRST TERM.
Course No.		Periods per week	Total periods
1.	Study of Cases—Legal Bibliography—Brief Making— Statutes	2	26
	Professor Lile.
	(Tues. and Thurs., 12:30 to 2.)
	Cooley's Brief Making; Wambaugh's Study of Cases; the Professor's Printed Notes.
2.	Contracts	4	52
	Professor Graves.
	(Mon., Wed., Fri. and Sat., 11 to 12:30.)
	Clark on Contracts; Throckmorton's Cases on Contracts; the Professor's Printed Notes.
3.	Criminal Law	2	26
	Professor Dobie.
	(Tues. and Thurs., 9:30 to 11.)
	Mikell's Cases on Criminal Law.
4.	Forensic Debating	2	26
	Adjunct Professor Paul.
	(Section 1: Mon. and Fri., 9:30 to 11.)
	(Section 2: Mon., 12:30 to 2, and Wed., 9:30 to 11.)
	(Section 3: Tues. and Thurs., 11 to 12:30.)
5.	*Suretyship and Guaranty	2	26
	Adjunct Professor Eager.
	(Wed. and Fri., 12:30 to 2.)
	Childs on Suretyship and Guaranty.
SECOND TERM.
6.	Torts—including Master and Servant	4	40
	Professor Graves.
	(Mon., Wed., Fri. and Sat., 11 to 12:30.)
	Cooley on Torts; Chase's Cases on Torts; the Professor's Printed Notes.
7.	Bailments and Carriers	3	30
	Professor Dobie.
	(Tues., Thurs. and Sat., 9:30 to 11.)
	Dobie on Bailments and Carriers; Dobie's Cases on Bailments and Carriers.
8.	Agency	2	20
	Adjunct Professor Eager.
	(Tues. and Thurs., 12:30 to 2.)
	Mechem's Principles of Agency.
4a.	Forensic Debating	3	30
	Adjunct Professor Paul.
	(Section 4: Mon., Wed. and Fri., 9:30 to 11.)
	(Section 5: Mon., Wed. and Fri., 12:30 to 2.)
THIRD TERM.
9.	Negotiable Paper	2	20
	Professor Lile.
	(Tues. and Thurs., 12:30 to 2.)
	Bigelow on Bills, Notes and Cheques; the Professor's Printed Notes.
10.	*International Law	2	20
	Professor Minor.
	(Tues. and Thurs., 9:30 to 11.)
	Davis' Elements of International Law.
11.	Sales	2	20
	Professor Dobie.
	(Wed. and Fri., 9:30 to 11.)
	Benjamin's (R. M.) Principles of Sales.
12.	Domestic Relations	2	20
	Adjunct Professor Eager.
	(Mon. and Sat., 12:30 to 2.)
	Long on Domestic Relations.
13.	Insurance	2	20
	Adjunct Professor Eager.
	(Wed. and Fri., 12:30 to 2.)
	Vance on Insurance.
4b.	Forensic Debating	3	30
	Adjunct Professor Paul.
	(Section 6: Tues., Thurs. and Sat., 11 to 12:30.)
SECOND YEAR.
FIRST TERM.
14.	Equity Jurisprudence	4	52
	Professor Lile.
	(Mon., Wed., Fri. and Sat., 12:30 to 2.)
	Merwin's Principles of Equity; the Professor's Printed Notes.
15.	Common Law Pleading	2	26
	Professor Graves.
	(Tues. and Thurs., 11 to 12:30.)
	Burks on Pleading and Practice; the Professor's Printed Notes.
16.	Constitutional Law	4	44
	Professor Minor.
	(Mon., Tues., Wed. and Fri., 9:30 to 11.)
	Black on Constitutional Law; Minor's Notes on Government.
17.	Real Property (begun)	4	8
	Professor Minor.
	(Mon., Tues., Wed. and Fri., 9:30 to 11.)
	Minor on Real Property.
SECOND TERM.
18.	Private Corporations	4	40
	Professor Lile.
	(Mon., Wed., Fri. and Sat., 12:30 to 2.)
	Marshall on Private Corporations; the Virginia Corporation Act; Elliott and Wormser's Cases on Private Corporations.
19.	*Pleading in Virginia	3	30
	Professor Graves.
	(Tues. and Thurs., 11 to 12:30, and Thurs., 1 to 2.)
	Burks on Pleading and Practice; the Professor's Printed Notes.
17a.	Real Property (continued)	3	30
	Professor Minor.
	(Mon., Wed., and Fri., 9:30 to 11.)
	Minor on Real Property.
20.	*Admiralty	2	20
	Adjunct Professor Eager.
	(Tues. and Thurs., 9:30 to 11.)
	Hughes on Admiralty.
THIRD TERM.
21.	Practice at Law, including Extraordinary Remedies	2	20
	Professor Graves.
	(Tues. and Thurs., 9:30 to 11.)
	Burks on Pleading and Practice; the Professor's Printed Notes.
17b.	Real Property (concluded)	4	40
	Professor Minor.
	(Mon., Wed., Fri. and Sat., 11 to 12:30.)
	Minor on Real Property.
22.	*Code Pleading	2	20
	Professor Dobie.
	(Wed. and Fri., 12:30 to 2.)
	Bryant on Code Pleading.
23.	*Parliamentary Law	2	20
	Adjunct Professor Paul.
	(Section 1: Mon. and Fri., 9:30 to 11.)
	Gregg's Parliamentary Law.
24.	*Administrative Law	2	20
	Adjunct Professor Eager.
	(Tues. and Thurs., 11 to 12:30.)
	Goodnow's Principles of Administrative Law.
THIRD YEAR.
FIRST TERM.
25.	Criminal Procedure	2	26
	Professor Minor.
	(Thurs. and Sat., 9:30 to 11.)
	Beale on Criminal Pleading and Practice; the Professor's Printed Notes.
26.	Wills and Administration	2	26
	Professor Dobie.
	(Wed. and Fri., 12:30 to 2.)
	Costigan's Cases on Wills.
28.	*Roman Law	2	26
	Professor Dobie.
	(Wed. and Fri., 9:30 to 11.)
	Morey's Outlines of Roman Law.
28.	Bankruptcy	2	26
	Adjunct Professor Eager.
	(Mon., 11 to 12:30, Thurs., 12:30 to 2.)
	Remington on Bankruptcy (Students' Edition.)
29.	Partnership	2	13
	Adjunct Professor Eager.
	(Tues. and Sat., 12:30 to 2—first half of term.)
	Mechem's Elements of Partnership.
30.	Interest and Usury	2	13
	Adjunct Professor Eager.
	(Tues. and Sat., 12:30 to 2—last half of term.)
	Text-book to be announced.
39.	*Legal Argumentation (begun)	2	24
	Adjunct Professor Paul.
	(Section 1: Mon. and Wed., 11 to 12:30.)
	(Section 2: Fri. and Sat., 11 to 12:30.)
SECOND TERM.
31.	Equity Procedure	2	20
	Professor Lile.
	(Tues. and Thurs., 12:30 to 2.)
	Text-book to be announced; the Professor's Printed Notes.
32.	Conflict of Laws and Jurisdictions	3	30
	Professor Minor.
	(Tues. and Thurs., 9:30 to 11, Sat., 12:30 to 2.)
	Minor on the Conflict of Laws.
33.	Federal Jurisdiction and Procedure	3	30
	Professor Dobie.
	(Mon., Wed. and Fri., 12:30 to 2.)
	Hughes on Federal Procedure.
34.	*Damages	2	20
	Adjunct Professor Eager.
	(Wed. and Sat., 9:30 to 11.)
	Hale on Damages.
39a.	*Legal Argumentation (concluded)	2	16
	Adjunct Professor Paul.
	(Section 1: Mon. and Wed., 11 to 12:30.)
	(Section 2: Fri. and Sat., 11 to 12:30.)
THIRD TERM.
35.	Public Corporations	2	20
	Professor Lile.
	(Wed. and Fri., 12:30 to 2.)
	Macy's Cases on Municipal Corporations; the Professor's Printed Notes.
36.	Legal Ethics, Preparation of Cases, and Practice of the Law	2	20
	Professor Lile.
	(Mon. and Sat., 12:30 to 2.)
	Archer's Ethical Obligations of the Lawyer; the Code of Ethics of the American Bar Association. Parallel reading.
37.	Evidence	4	40
	Professor Graves.
	(Mon., Wed., Fri. and Sat., 9:30 to 11.)
	Greenleaf on Evidence (16th edition by Wigmore); Hughes' Illustrations of Evidence; the Professor's Printed Notes.
27.	*Taxation	2	20
	Professor Dobie.
	(Tues. and Thurs., 12:30 to 2.)
	Goodnow's Cases on Taxation.

TABLE OF COURSES FOR THE SESSION OF 1915-1916.
(SUBJECT TO ALTERATION.)

FIRST YEAR				SECOND YEAR				THIRD YEAR
First Term—September 15 to December 16—13 Weeks.[3]
	Prof. Lile	Periods per week	Total periods		Prof. Lile	Periods per week	Total periods		Prof. Minor	Periods per week	Total periods
1.	Study of Cases	2	26	14.	Equity Jurisprudence	4	52	25.	Criminal Procedure	2	26
	Legal Bibliography				Prof. Graves				Prof. Dobie
	Brief Making			15.	Common Law Pleading	2	26	26.	Wills and Administration	2	26
	Interp. Statutes				Prof. Minor
	Prof. Graves			16.	Constitutional Law	4	44	38.	[4] Roman Law	2	26
2.	Contracts	4	52	17.	Real Property (begun)	4	8		Prof. Eager
	Prof. Dobie							28.	Bankruptcy	2	26
3.	Criminal Law	2	26					29.	Partnership	2	13
	Prof. Paul							30.	Interest and Usury	2	13
4.	Forensic Debating	2	26[5]						Prof. Paul
	Prof. Eager							39.	[4] Legal Argumentation	2	24
5.	[4] Suretyship & Guaranty	2	20
Second Term—January 3 to March 14—10 Weeks.[6]
	Prof. Graves				Prof. Lile				Prof. Lile
6.	Torts, Including Master and Servant	4	40	18.	Private Corporations	4	40	31.	Equity Procedure	2	20
					Prof. Graves				Prof. Minor
	Prof. Dobie			19.	[4] Pleading in Virginia	3	30	32.	Conflict of Laws	3	30
7.	Bailments and Carriers	3	30		Prof. Minor				Prof. Dobie
	Prof. Eager			17a.	Real Property (continued)	3	30	33.	Federal Jurisdiction and Procedure	3	30
8.	Agency	2	20
					Prof. Eager				Prof. Eager
				20.	[4] Admiralty	2	20	34.	[4] Damages	2	20
									Prof. Paul
								39a.	[4] Legal Argumentation (concluded)	2	16
Third Term—March 22 to May 31—10 Weeks.[6]
	Prof. Lile				Prof. Graves				Prof. Lile
9.	Negotiable Paper	2	20	21.	Practice at Law	2	20	35.	Public Corporations	2	20
	Prof. Minor				Prof. Minor			36.	Legal Ethics, Preparation of Cases and Practice of the Law	2	20
10.	[4] International Law	2	20	17b.	Real Property (completed)	4	40
	Prof. Dobie
11.	Sales	2	20		Prof. Dobie				Prof. Graves
	Prof. Eager			22.	[4] Code Pleading	2	20	37.	Evidence	4	40
12.	Domestic Relations	2	20		Prof. Paul				Prof. Dobie
13.	Insurance	2	20	23.	[4] Parliamentary Law	2	20	27.	[4] Taxation	2	20
					Prof. Eager
				24.	[4] Administrative Law	2	20

[3]

Exclusive of one week devoted to examinations.

[4]

Electives.

[5]

Sections 1, 2, and 3 only. Other sections in subsequent terms,
as per schedule next page.

[6]

Exclusive of one week devoted to examinations.

SCHEDULE OF LECTURES.

1915-1916.

(SUBJECT TO SUCH ALTERATION AS THE FACULTY MAY DEEM NECESSARY.)

FIRST TERM
Hours	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday
9:30 to 11:00	Forens. Debating (i) Constitutional Law Real Property	Criminal Law Constitutional Law Real Property	Forens. Debat. (ii) Constitutional Law Real Property Roman Law	Criminal Law Criminal Procedure	Forens. Debat. (i) Constitutional Law Real Property Roman Law	Criminal Procedure
11:00 to 12:30	Contracts Leg. Arg. (i)	Forens. Debat. (iii) Com. Law Plead.	Contracts Leg. Arg. (i)	Forens. Debat. (iii) Com. Law Plead.	Contracts Leg. Arg. (ii)	Contracts Leg. Arg. (ii)
12:30 to 2:00	Forens. Debating (ii) Equity Jurisp. Bankruptcy	Brief Making Partnership Int. and Usury	Suretyship & G. Equity Jurisp. Wills and Admin.	Brief Making Bankruptcy	Suretyship & G. Equity Jurisp. Wills and Admin.	Equity Jurisp. Partnership Int. and Usury
SECOND TERM
9:30 to 11:00	Forens. Debating (iv) Real Property	Bailments & Carriers Admiralty Conflict of Laws	Forens. Debat. (iv) Real Property Damages	Bailments & Carriers Admiralty Conflict of Laws	Forens. Debat. (iv) Real Property	Bailments & Carriers Damages
11:00 to 12:30	Torts Leg. Arg. (i)	Virginia Pleading	Torts Leg. Arg. (i)	Virginia Pleading	Torts Leg. Arg. (ii)	Torts Leg. Arg. (ii)
12:30 to 2:00	Forens. Debating (v) Private Corporations Fed. Jurisd. & Proced.	Agency Equity Procedure	Forens. Debat. (v) Private Corporations Fed. Jurisd. & Proced.	Agency Equity Procedure Virginia Pleading	Forens. Debat. (v) Private Corporations Fed. Jurisd. & Proced.	Private Corporations Conflict of Laws
THIRD TERM
9:30 to 11:00	Parl. Law (i) Evidence	International Law Practice at Law	Sales Evidence	International Law Practice at Law	Parl. Law (i) Sales Evidence	Evidence
11:00 to 12:30	Real Property	Forens. Debat. (vi) Administrative Law	Real Property	Forens. Debat. (vi) Administrative Law	Real Property	Forens. Debat. (vi) Real Property
12:30 to 2:00	Domestic Relations Legal Eth. & Pr. of L.	Negotiable Paper Taxation	Insurance Code Pleading Public Corporations	Negotiable Paper Taxation	Insurance Code Pleading Public Corporations	Domestic Relations Legal Eth. & Pr. of L.

Note.—Bracketed Courses are consecutive and do not conflict.

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SCHEDULE OF EXAMINATIONS.

1915-1916.

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

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

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.
Each competitor must file with the Dean of the Department of Law not
later than April 15th his name and the title of his essay, and must file
his completed essay not later than May 1st. All essays must be typewritten,
must contain not more than 15,000 words, and must not be
folded. The award is made by a committee of three competent persons,
not locally connected with the University, to be selected annually by the
Law Faculty. In making the award, literary form as well as subject
matter is taken into consideration.

[7]

Afternoon.

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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 (office, No. 6
East Lawn) 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 courses taken without proper
registration.

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 admitted to
registration only upon the consent of the president, and will be charged a
special registration fee of three dollars.

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

5. Maximum for Which Student May Register.—No candidate for
the degree is permitted to register, in any year, for courses comprising
in the aggregate more than 450 periods—including subjects taken but not
completed in a previous year—nor, in any case, for new courses aggregating
more than 350 periods.

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.

9. Optional Attendance.—A student who has attended the required
lectures upon any subject may, on written application, with the endorsed
approval of the professor in charge, and of the Dean, secure optional

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attendance on such subjects the following session—provided the exercise
of this privilege does not reduce his lecture periods below nine per week,
nor infringe Regulation 4.

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 by the faculty.

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 Re-Admission.—Any student who, without satisfactory
cause, has not attained for the session, on his examinations,
credit for courses completed, comprising in the aggregate at least 100
periods, or, in lieu thereof, a grade of 75 per centum on courses aggregating
150 periods, will be excluded from the Law School the following
session. The result of one or more special examinations, granted for
cause under existing regulations, may be considered in determining
whether this requirement has been met.

The foregoing provisions do not affect students who have been permitted,
for cause, to take less than two-thirds of a full year's work. Such
students will be subject to exclusion or other conditions as the Law
Faculty may prescribe.

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

13. Students Admitted on Terms of Diligence, by reason of previous
unsatisfactory record in the Law School, or other department of the
University, will be held to an average class grade (or examination grade,
in classes in which class grades are not recorded) of 75 per centum, in
the work of the first term. Failure to attain this grade without satisfactory
cause, unless the result of his other examinations shall raise his
average grade to the required standard, will operate to exclude such
delinquent from the Law School for the remainder of the session. An
average class grade of less than 75 per centum, at the end of any term,
will be regarded as evidence of a lack of the diligence required by the
terms of this condition.

14. 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 seventy-five per centum 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
such student's work is indicated at the end of the second term, he will
be required to withdraw from the Law School.

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15. Absence from the University is permitted upon the written leave
of the Dean of the Law School, obtained in every case in advance. 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 organizations.

16. Absence from Lectures may be excused by the professors for
sickness or like providential cause. Such excuses must be rendered on
the day of the first lecture attended after the absence. Unexcused
absences from lectures render the student liable to be disciplined.

17. 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.

18. Re-Examinations—Third-Year Students.—Candidates for the
degree, who have failed on one or more subjects during their third 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.

19. Examination Fees.—The fee for standing such examinations as
are mentioned in the preceding regulation is five dollars 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 taken.

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

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

21. 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 on application to the Dean.

22. 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.