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.	East Lawn
James Madison Professor of Law.
Charles Alfred Graves, M.A., LL.D.	East Lawn
Professor of Law.
Raleigh Colston Minor, M.A., LL.B.	West Lawn
James Monroe Professor of Law.
[1] Armistead Mason Dobie, M.A., LL.B.	Monroe Hill
Professor of Law.
George Boardman Eager, Jr., B.A., LL.B.	Minor's Cottage
Professor of Law.
[2] Charles Wakefield Paul	McCormick Road
Adjunct Professor of Public Speaking.
[3] Forrest Jesse Hyde, Jr., LL.B.	Colonnade Club
Adjunct Professor of Law.
Edwin Thurman Boyd, LL.B.	Colonnade Club
Acting Adjunct Professor of Law, 1918-1919.
Catherine Rebecca Lipop	Law Librarian

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

For information as to lodgings, board, expenses, etc., and for catalogues
and other printed matter, address 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 1894-95, 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 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 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.—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 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. 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 text-books, bound volumes
of law magazines, etc. Law students have all the privileges of the general
University Library, containing more than ninety thousand volumes,
without extra charge.

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 fifth volume. From its inception it has maintained a
high standard of excellence, and a worthy rank among the leading law
journals of the country.

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 such
training are likely never to rise above mediocrity in their profession.

The experience of the Law Faculty—indeed, 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 at least eighteen 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 the candidate must offer fifteen
units, of which three must be in English and one in History.

Notice is given that an additional requirement of one year of work in a
standard college will become effective with the beginning of the session of
1920-21.

The Subjects accepted for Admission and their values in units are given
in tabulated form on page 140. 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 1 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 of 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 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 at least forty mintues
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.

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	Critical Study of Specimens of English Literature	1
Mathematics A1	Algebra to Quadratic Equations	1
Mathematics A2	Quadratics, Progressions and the Binomial Formula.	½ or 1
Mathematics B	Plane Geometry	1
Mathematics C	Solid Geometry	½
Mathematics D	Plane Trigonometry	½
History A	Greek and Roman History	1
History B	Mediaeval 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	Caesar'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
Greek C	Homer's Iliad, I-III; Grammar; Composition	1
German A	Elementary Grammar, Composition, and Translation	1
German B	Intermediate Grammar, Composition, and Translation	1
German C	Third-Year Grammar, Composition, and Translation	1
German D	Fourth-Year Grammar, Composition, and Translation	1
French A	Elementary Grammar, Composition, and Translation	1
French B	Intermediate Grammar, Composition, and Translation	1
French C	Third-Year Grammar, Composition, and Translation	1
French D	Fourth-Year Grammar, Composition, and Translation	1
Spanish A	Elementary Grammar, Composition, and Translation	1
Spanish B	Intermediate Grammar, Composition, and Translation	1
Spanish C	Third-Year Grammar, Composition, and Translation	1
Spanish D	Fourth-Year Grammar, Composition, and Translation	1
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	Agriculture (special schools)	2
Drawing	Mechanical and Projection Drawing	1
Shop-Work	Wood-work, Forging, and Machine-Work	1

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.

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 shall 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 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 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 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
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, without satisfactory excuse, will be charged a fee for reigstration.

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 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.

Expenses.—The necessary expenses of a student in the Department of
Law may be estimated at $425 per session of nine months. This minimum
estimate includes all university and tuition fees, board, lodging, washing and
books. An average estimate would be $500 per session, reckoning board,
lodging, and washing 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.

Three Years' Course.—The course of study embraces three years of
thirty-six 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 as thorough as possible, and is
given partly through textbooks and lectures, and partly through 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,
and in forcing the student to extract for himself the doctrine which the
cases establish. The course as now arranged gives opportunity for more
emphasis on this form of instruction, and the case-book will, therefore, be
used more extensively than heretofore—not as supplanting, but as supplementing,
textbook 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.

Practical Work.—In the course on 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 encountered in actual litigation. 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 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 fifteen hours) per week.

Each session is divided into three terms. See table, page 147.

Written examinations are held during the final week of each term, on
the subjects completed during the term. See Schedule of Examinations,
page 148.

The following outline indicates the extent of the courses offered:

TABULAR OUTLINE OF COURSES.

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

                                                                                                   

FIRST YEAR.
Course No.	FIRST TERM.	Periods per week	Total periods
1.	Study of Cases—Legal Bibliography—Brief Making— Statutes. Cooley's Brief Making; Wambaugh's Study of Cases; the Professor's Printed Notes. Professor Lile	2	26
2.	Contracts. Clark on Contracts; Huffcut and Woodruff's Cases on Contracts; the Professor's Printed Notes. Professor Graves	4	52
3.	Criminal Law. Mikell's Cases on Criminal Law. Professor Dobie	2	26
12.	Domestic Relations. Long on Domestic Relations. Professor Eager	2	26
4.	Forensic Debating. Adjunct Professor Paul	2	26
SECOND TERM.
6.	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
7.	Bailments and Carriers. Dobie on Bailments and Carriers; Dobie's Cases on Bailments and Carriers. Professor Dobie	3	30
8.	Agency. Mechem's Principles of Agency; Mechem's Cases. Professor Eager	2	20
4a.	Forensic Debating. Adjunct Professor Paul	3	30
THIRD TERM.
9.	Negotiable Paper. Bigelow on Bills, Notes and Cheques; the Negotiable Instruments Law; the Professor's Printed Notes. Professor Lile	2	20
10.	International Law. Davis' Elements of International Law. Professor Minor	2	20
11.	Sales. Benjamin's (R. M.) Principles of Sales. Professor Dobie	2	20
13.	Insurance. Vance on Insurance. Professor Eager	3	30
4b.	Forensic Debating. Adjunct Professor Paul	3	30
SECOND YEAR.
FIRST TERM.
14.	Equity Jurisprudence. Merwin's Principles of Equity; the Professor's Printed Notes. Professor Lile	4	52
15.	Common Law Pleading. Burks on Pleading and Practice; Sunderland's Cases; the Professor's Printed Notes and Questions. Professor Graves	2	26
17.	Real Property (begun). Minor on Real Property. Professor Minor	4	52
SECOND TERM.
18.	Private Corporations. Clark on Corporations; the Virginia Corporation Act; Wormser's Cases on Private Corporations. Professor Lile	4	40
19.	*Pleading in Virginia. Burks on Pleading and Practice; the Professor's Printed Notes. Professor Graves	2	20
17a.	Real Property (concluded). Minor on Real Property. Professor Minor	3	26
16.	Constitutional Law (begun). Minor's Notes on Government; Black's Constitutional Law. Professor Minor	3	4
22.	*Code Pleading.[4] Bryant on Code Pleading. Professor Dobie	2	20
20.	*Admiralty. Hughes on Admiralty. Professor Eager	2	20
THIRD TERM.
21.	Practice at Law, including Extraordinary Remedies. Burks on Pleading and Practice; Graves' Printed Notes. Professor Eager	3	30
16a.	Constitutional Law (concluded). Minor's Notes on Government; Black's Constitutional Law. Professor Minor	4	40
27.	Taxation. Goodnow's Cases on Taxation. Professor Dobie	2	20
THIRD YEAR.
FIRST TERM.
25.	Criminal Procedure. Beale on Criminal Pleading and Practice; the Professor's Printed Notes. Professor Minor	2	26
26.	Wills and Administration. Costigan's Cases on Wills. Professor Dobie	2	26
38.	*Roman Law.[5] Morey's Outlines of Roman Law. Professor Dobie	2	26
28.	Bankruptcy. Remington on Bankruptcy (Students' Edition); Holbrook and Aigler's Cases. Professor Eager	2	26
29.	Partnership. Mechem's Elements of Partnership. Professor Eager	2	26
SECOND TERM.
31.	Equity Procedure. Lile's Equity Pleading and Practice. Professor Lile	2	20
32.	Conflict of Laws and Jurisdictions. Minor on the Conflict of Laws. Professor Minor	3	30
33.	Federal Jurisdiction and Procedure. Hughes on Federal Procedure. Professor Dobie	3	30
34.	*Damages. Hale on Damages. Professor Eager	2	20
THIRD TERM.
35.	Public Corporations. Macy's Cases on Municipal Corporations; the Professor's Printed Notes. Professor Lile	2	20
36.	Legal Ethics, Preparation of Cases, and Practice of the Law. 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
37.	Evidence. Greenleaf on Evidence (16th edition by Wigmore);Throckmorton's Cases; the Professor's Printed Notes. Professor Graves	6	60

CONDENSED TABLE OF COURSES FOR THE SESSION OF 1919-20.

(Subject to alteration.)

                                                                             

FIRST YEAR				SECOND YEAR				THIRD YEAR
First Term—September 15 to December 16—13 Weeks.[6]
		Periods per week	Total periods			Periods per week	Total periods			Periods per week	Total periods
	Professor Lile
1.	Study of Cases	2	26
	Legal Bibliography
	Brief Making				Professor Lile				Professor Minor
	Interp. Statutes			14.	Equity Jurisprudence.	4	52	25.	Criminal Procedure	2	26
	Professor Graves				Professor Graves				Professor Dobie
2.	Contracts	4	52	15.	Common Law Pleading	2	26	26.	Wills and Administration	2	26
	Professor Dobie				Professor Minor			38.	[7] Roman Law[8]	2	26
3.	Criminal Law	2	26	17.	Real Property (begun)	4	52		Professor Eager
	Professor Paul							28.	Bankruptcy	2	26
4.	Forensic Debating	2	26[9]					29.	Partnership	2	26
	Professor Eager
12.	Domestic Relations	2	26
Second Term—January 2 to March 14—10 Weeks.[10]
					Professor Lile
				18.	Private Corporations.	4	40
					Professor Graves				Professor Lile
	Professor Graves			19.	[11] Pleading in Virginia	2	20	31.	Equity Procedure	2	20
6.	Torts, including Master and Servant	4	40		Professor Minor				Professor Minor
				17a.	Real Property (concluded)	3	26	32.	Conflict of Laws	3	30
	Professor Dobie								Professor Dobie
7.	Bailments and Carriers	3	30	16.	Constitutional Law (begun)	3	4	33.	Federal Jurisdiction and Procedure	3	30
	Professor Eager
8.	Agency	2	20		Professor Eager				Professor Eager
				20.	[12] Admiralty	2	20	34.	[13] Damages	2	20
					Professor Dobie
				22.	[14] Code Pleading[15]	2	20
Third Term—March 22 to May 31—10 Weeks.[16]
	Professor Lile				Professor Eager				Professor Lile
9.	Negotiable Paper	2	20	21.	Practice at Law	3	30	35.	Public Corporations.	2	20
	Professor Minor				Professor Minor			36.	Legal Ethics, Preparation of Cases and Practice of the Law	2	20
10.	International Law	2	20	16a.	Constitutional Law (concluded)	4	40
	Professor Dobie
11.	Sales	2	20		Professor Dobie				Professor Graves
	Professor Eager			27.	Taxation	2	20
13.	Insurance	3	30					37.	Evidence	6	60

SCHEDULE OF LECTURES FOR THE SESSION OF 1919-20.

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

                         

FIRST TERM
Hours	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday
9:00 to 10:30	Forens. Debating (i)	Criminal Law Criminal Procedure	Forens. Debat. (ii) Roman Law	Criminal Law Criminal Procedure	Forens. Debat. (i) Roman Law
10:30 to 12:00	Contracts Real Property	Forens. Debat. (iii) Com. Law Plead.	Contracts Real Property	Forens. Debat. (iii) Com. Law Plead.	Contracts Real Property	Contracts Real Property
12:00 to 1:30	Forens. Debating (ii) Equity Jurisp. Bankruptcy	Brief Making Partnership	Domestic Rel. Equity Jurisp. Wills and Admin.	Brief Making Bankruptcy	Domestic Rel. Equity Jurisp. Wills and Admin.	Equity Jurisp. Partnership
SECOND TERM
9:00 to 10:30	Forens. Debating (iv)	Bailments and Carriers Admiralty Conflict of Laws	Forens. Debat. (iv)	Bailments and Carriers Admiralty Conflict of Laws	Forens. Debat. (iv)	Bailments and Carriers
10:30 to 12:00	Real Property Constitutional Law Torts	Virginia Pleading	Torts Real Property Constitutional Law Damages	Virginia Pleading	Torts Real Property Constitutional Law	Torts Damages
12:00 to 1:30	Forens. Debating (v) Private Corporations Fed. Jurisd. & Proced.	Agency Equity Procedure Code Pleading	Forens. Debating (v) Private Corporations Fed. Jurisd. & Proced.	Agency Equity Procedure Code Pleading	Forens. Debating (v) Private Corporations Fed. Jurisd. & Proced.	Private Corporations Conflict of Laws
THIRD TERM
9:00 to 10:30	Evidence	International Law Evidence	Sales Evidence	International Law Evidence	Sales Evidence	Evidence
10:30 to 12:00	Forens. Debating (vi) Constitutional Law	Practice at Law	Forens. Debating (vi) Constitutional Law	Practice at Law	Forens. Debating (vi) Constitutional Law	Constitutional Law
12:00 to 1:30	Legal Eth. & Pr. of L. Insurance	Negotiable Paper Taxation	Insurance Public Corporations	Negotiable Paper Taxation	Insurance Public Corporations	Legal Eth. & Pr. of L. Practice at Law

SCHEDULE OF EXAMINATIONS.

For Session 1919-20.

Examinations will be held on successive days during the last week of each
term, on all subjects completed during the term, and in 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 Paper (a)
2.	Real Property (i)	Real Property (ii)	Evidence
3.	Roman Law	Conflict of Laws	Legal Ethics, etc. (a)
	Criminal Law (a)	Admiralty (a)
4.	Wills and Adm.	Torts	Sales
		Equity Procedure (a)
5.	Brief Making, etc. (a)	Private Corporations	Insurance
	Equity Jurisprudence	Damages (a)	Public Corporations (a)
6.	Criminal Procedure	Virginia Pleading	Practice at Law
	Domestic Relations (a)	Agency (a)	International Law (a)
7.	Common Law Plead.	Code Pleading	Taxation (a)
	Partnership (a)

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 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 admitted to registration
only upon the consent of the Dean, and will be charged a special registration
fee of three 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 ten 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,
ante, p. 143.

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 attendance
on a limited number of such subjects the following session, but subject
to Regulation 5.

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 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 periods, or, in lieu thereof, a grade of
75 per centum on courses aggregating 200 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 may be prescribed.

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

13. Students Admitted on Terms of Diligence, by reason of previous
unsatisactory 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 75 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.

15. Absence from the University is permitted upon 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 organizations. Nor, except
for good cause, may leaves be granted in anticipation or extension of
holidays.

16. 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.

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. Reexaminations—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 $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.

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;
or whose habits are a menace to the good order of the Law School.