University of Virginia Library

DEPARTMENT OF LAW

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

President of the University.

William Minor Lile, LL.D.

Dean of the Department of Law.

                               

WILLIAM MINOR LILE, LL.B., LL.D.	James Madison 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
FREDERICK DEANE RIBBLE, M.A., LL.B.	Professor of Law
CHARLES PATTERSON NASH, JR., B.S., LL.B.	Associate Professor of Law
HARDY CROSS DILLARD, Graduate U. S. Military Academy, LL.B.	Acting Assistant Professor of Law
ADOLPHUS BLAIR SCOTT, B.A., LL.B.	Acting Assistant Professor of Law
CHARLES WAKEFIELD PAUL	Associate Professor of Forensic Debating
CHARLES NEWTON HULVEY, M.S., LL.B.	Assistant
PHILIP PARKS BURKS	Student Assistant
GORDON KENNETH EVANS	Student Assistant
JULIAN HARRIS, B.S.	Student Assistant
CARTER THOMAS LOUTHAN, B.A.	Student Assistant
JOHN LUTHER WALKER, B.A.	Student Assistant
CATHERINE LIPOP GRAVES	Law Librarian
BENTLEY HITE, B.A.	Assistant Law Librarian

Inquiries with reference to Entrance Requirements or other particulars
respecting the Law School should be addressed to the Dean of the Department
of Law.

For information as to lodging, board, etc., address the Bursar.

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 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.—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. There are 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 more than twenty 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, and bound volumes of law magazines. Practically
all the current legal periodicals are received. 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.

In 1922 the late 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, 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, is the donor of 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 Judge Moore.
In 1926, the Library was further augmented by the receipt of the extensive
and well chosen law library of the late Judge George Curle Webb (LL.B.
1890), of Lexington, Kentucky, donated to the University by his widow,
Mrs. Eleanor Graves Webb.

In memory of the late Professor Raleigh Colston Minor the alumni and
active members of Minor Inn of Phi Delta Phi have made a gift to the University
for the establishment and maintenance of a section of the Law Library,
on Legal Ethics and Legal History.

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 November to June inclusive. The
Review is now in its fourteenth volume. From its inception it has maintained
a high standard of excellence, and a worthy rank among the leading
law journals of the country.

The Law School is a member of the Association of American Law
Schools; is registered by the Regents of the University of the State of New
York as meeting the requirements of the Court of Appeals regulating admission
to the bar in that State; and is rated Class "A" by the Council on Legal
Education and Admission to the Bar, of the American Bar Association.

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—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 as yet 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 nineteen years (counting to the nearest birthday)
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 for at least two years he has pursued

in a standard college courses leading to a baccalaureate degree, of which he
must have successfully completed at least thirty session-hours.[1]

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 from the institution in which the work was done, without further
pursuit of that course.

Notice is given that two important changes in the requirements for admission
are in contemplation, of which changes pre-law students should be forewarned.
First: The exclusion, as subjects acceptable for admission to the
Law School, of courses in Art, Music, Commercial Law, Education, Physical
Training, Military Training, and Public Speaking. Second: The definite
requirement, for admission to the Law School, of most of the following subjects,
which are now recommended as desirable pre-law courses: English,
Latin, French or Spanish, History, a Natural Science, Mathematics, Government,
Accounting, and for students of more than average maturity Economics,
Logic and Ethics.

Admission of Women.—With the beginning of the session of 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.

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. Such certificate
of College work must indicate the courses completed, the grades
received, the time devoted to each course, and the credit, in session or semester
hours, at which each such course is valued toward a baccalaureate degree.

2. Special Students.—A limited number of applicants who are at least 23
years old and who present 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 special students, and not as candidates for the degree.[2]

Every applicant for admission as a special student is required to make
written application to the Dean of the Law School, 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, must be filed with the Dean of the Law School not later than
September 1 of the year in which the applicant desires to enter.

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.

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 for attendance at another law school, nor for time spent in private
reading. The candidate for graduation must spend three years in residence,
and pursue all required courses in the curriculum, and pass the regular examinations
therein.[3]

In the discretion of the Dean and of the professors in charge, an exception
to the foregoing regulation may be made in the courses in Public
Speaking and International Law, where these courses have been completed
in an approved institution of collegiate rank before entrance into the Law
School—provided credit for such courses has not already been utilized as a necessary
credit on entrance requirements.

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 student may register for the work of the first term after October
15, nor for that of the second term after January 10—nor is registration in absentia
permissible.

When Students May Enter.—It is highly desirable that students of any
year, and particularly those of the first year, should enter at the beginning of
the session. Where this is impossible students may register at the beginning
of the second term, but not 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 $60; and the tuition fee for
residents of Virginia is $175; for non-residents, $195.

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 many of the courses by the study of cases. While convinced of the value
of the combined textbook and lecture system, which has prevailed for practically
a century in the Law School, the Law Faculty have long appreciated
the value that the study of cases possesses in teaching the student to work
out for himself the principles involved, and in illustrating the practical application
of legal rules. The present organization of the Law School gives
opportunity for more emphasis on this form of instruction, and the casebook
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 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 Draughting, 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 lectures and demonstrations three times a week during the first
term of the first year, accompanied by the assignment of practical work in
the library, on which numerous oral and written tests are held; and in the
third year 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 the late 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 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; and 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 the copyright thereof shall vest in the
Foundation.

The lectures under the William H. White Foundation were inaugurated
during the session of 1923-24 by Dean Roscoe Pound of the Harvard Law
School, upon the subject of "Codification."

OUTLINE OF COURSES

The schedule, as outlined below, contemplates an average of fifteen lecture
periods (of one hour each) per week.

Written examinations are held during the final week of each term, on
the subjects completed during the term, except that the third term examinations
in the courses of the third year are held one week earlier.

CONDENSED TABLE OF COURSES
(Subject to Alteration)

                                                                       

FIRST YEAR		SECOND YEAR		THIRD YEAR
First Term—September 15 to December 13—13 Weeks.[4]
	Periods per week		Periods per week		Periods per week
Professor Lile		Professor Lile		Professor Ribble
Study of Cases	3	Equity Jurisprudence	6	Criminal Procedure	2
Legal Bibliography		Professor		Professor Dobie
Professor Nash		Common Law Pleading	3	Legal History	3
Contracts	6	Professor Ribble		Professor Eager
Professor		Real Property (begun)	6	Bankruptcy	3
International Law	3			Partnership	3
Professor Eager				Professor
Domestic Relations	3			Draughting	3
				Professor Paul
				Forensic Debating (begun)	1
Second Term—January 3 to March 14—10 Weeks[4]
Professor		Professor Lile		Professor Lile
Torts	6	Private Corporations	6	Equity Procedure	3
Professor Ribble		Professor Graves		Professor Nash
Bailments and Carriers	4	[5] Pleding in Virginia	3	Conflict of Laws	5
Professor Nash		Professor Ribble		Professor Dobie
Negotiable Instruments	3	Real Property (concluded)	4	Federal Jurisdiction and Procedure	3
		Professor Dobie
		[5] Code Pleading	3	Professor Eager
		Wills	3	[5] Damages	3
				[5] Admiralty	3
				Professor Paul
				Forensic Debating (continued)	1
Third Term—March 22 to May 31—10 Weeks[6]
Professor Dobie		Professor Nash		Professor Lile
Criminal Law	4	Practice at Law	4	Legal Ethics	3
Sales	4	Professor Ribble		Professor
Professor Eager		Constitutional Law	6	Evidence	8
Insurance	4	Professor Dobie		Professor Nash
Agency	4	Taxation	4	Public Corporations	3
				Professor Paul
				Forensic Debating (concluded)	1

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

                               

FIRST TERM
Hours	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday
9:30 to 10:30	Contracts Real Property Bankruptcy	Contracts Real Property Draughting	Contracts Real Property Bankruptcy	Contracts Real Property Draughting	Contracts Real Property Bankruptcy	Contracts Real Property Draughting
10:30 to 11:30	Forensic Debating (i)	Legal Bibliography	Forensic Debating (ii)	Legal Bibliography	Forensic Debating (iii)	Legal Bibliography Forensic Debating (iv)
11:30 to 12:30	Legal History	Common Law Pleading Legal History	Legal History	Common Law Pleading Criminal Procedure	Criminal Procedure	Common Law Pleading
12:30 to 1:30	Domestic Relations Equity Jurisprudence	International Law Equity Jurisprudence Partnership	Domestic Relations Equity Jurisprudence	International Law Equity Jurisprudence Partnership	Domestic Relations Equity Jurisprudence	International Law Equity Jurisprudence Partnership
SECOND TERM
9:30 to 10:30	Torts Private Corporations Conflict of Laws	Torts Private Corporations Conflict of Laws	Torts Private Corporations Conflict of Laws	Torts Private Corporations Conflict of Laws	Torts Private Corporations Conflict of Laws	Torts Private Corporations
10:30 to 11:30	Bailments & Carriers Code Pleading Admiralty	Damages	Bailments & Carriers Code Pleading Admiralty	Damages	Bailments & Carriers Code Pleading Admiralty	Bailments and Carriers Damages
11:30 to 12:30	Va. Pleading Forensic Debating (i)	Wills	Va. Pleading Forensic Debating (ii)	Wills	Va. Pleading Forensic Debating (iii)	Wills Forensic Debating (iv)
12:30 to 1:30	Real Property Federal Procedure	Negotiable Instruments Real Property Equity Procedure	Federal Procedure	Negotiable Instruments Real Property Equity Procedure	Federal Procedure	Negotiable Instruments Real Property Equity Procedure
THIRD TERM
9:30 to 10:30	Agency Constitutional Law Evidence	Constitutional Law Evidence	Agency Constitutional Law Evidence	Constitutional Law Evidence	Agency Constitutional Law Evidence	Agency Constitutional Law Evidence
10:30 to 11:30	Public Corporations	Criminal Law	Criminal Law Public Corporations	Criminal Law	Criminal Law Public Corporations	Forensic Debating (iii)
11:30 to 12:30	Insurance Taxation	Insurance Taxation Forensic Debating (i)		Insurance Taxation Forensic Debating (ii)		Insurance Taxation Forensic Debating (iv)
12:30 to 1:30	Sales Practice at Law Legal Ethics	Evidence	Sales Practice at Law Legal Ethics	Evidence	Sales Practice at Law Legal Ethics	Sales Practice at Law

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 proper certificate indicating that entrance requirements have been
fulfilled.

2. Registration Generally.—Students must register in advance (1) at
the office of the Dean of the Law School and (2) at the office of 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 registration
through carelessness or for inadequate reasons. Any student, new or
old, who fails without good cause, to present himself for registration during
the first three days of the session, and between the hours of nine a. m.
and one-thirty 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 seriously deficient
in the work of one year will be re-admitted on probation; and where
the Law Faculty deems the deficiency serious enough the student must repeat
the lectures in the courses in which he is deficient. No optional attendance
is permissible in such cases, and only such a limited amount of new
work may be taken as will not conflict with the previously incomplete work.

6. Probation.—Students on probation are not entitled to leaves of absence
except for imperative cause, nor are they permitted to become members
or officials of athletic, musical, debating or other student organizations which
publicly represent the University.

7. 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 325 lecture periods, will be excluded
from the Law School the following session, with the privilege of returning,
on conditions, the next session thereafter.

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

8. 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.

9. 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.

10. 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. 295.

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

12. Optional Attendance.—A student who has attended the required lectures
on any subject but has failed on the examination, may, with the approval
of the Dean, secure optional attendance on such subjects the following
session, but subject to Regulation 5.

Re-examinations are granted only in this form, or in that designated in
Regulation 20, infra.

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

14. 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.

15. Dean's Privileged List.—An average examination grade of ninety
per cent. for the first two years will entitle the student to a place on the
"Dean's List," which carries with it special privileges with respect to absences
from lectures. The privilege will not exempt students from any required
practical work, or review quizzes, and is subject to the control of
the professors in charge of Forensic Debating and Draughting. The Dean
may revoke the privilege if abused.

16. Extra-Curriculum Activities—Reports to the Dean.—Students of the
Law School who propose to become members or officials of athletic, musical,
debating or other student organizations which publicly represent the University,
or who propose to devote a material portion of their time to work
outside the Law School, are required to report their names and proposed
activities at the Dean's office for official approval. In no case will such approval
be given to a student on probation. See Regulation 6 foregoing.

17. 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.

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

19. 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.

20. Third Year Students—Incomplete Work.—A candidate for the degree
who in his third year is found deficient in one or more subjects, may return
the following session and, without further attendance upon lectures,
stand the regular examinations on such of his uncompleted subjects as the
Dean and the professor or professors in charge may approve. 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. In exceptional cases and
for good cause this privilege may be extended to the student of any year. See
Regulation 12.

21. 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.

22. Application for Degree.—Candidates for graduation are required to
file a written application with the Dean, not later than November 15 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.

23. 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.

24. Honor System.—All quizzes and examinations are conducted under
the Honor System.