 | The University of Virginia record April 1, 1935 |  |
DEPARTMENT OF LAW
JOHN LLOYD NEWCOMB, B.A., C.E., Sc.D., LL.D.
President of the University
ARMISTEAD MASON DOBIE, M.A., LL.B., S.J.D.
Dean of the Department of Law
GEORGE BOARDMAN EAGER, Jr., B.A., LL.B.
Assistant Dean of the Department of Law
| [1] WILLIAM MINOR LILE, LL.B., LL.D. | Emeritus 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 GOODWIN RIBBLE, M.A., LL.B., LL.M. | Professor of Law |
| GARRARD GLENN, B.A., LL.B. | Professor of Law |
| LESLIE HEPBURN BUCKLER, M.A. | 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. | Associate Professor of Law |
| Raymond Lavillon Jackson, B.S., LL.B. | Assistant |
| Morton Waller Belcher, Jr., B.A. | Student Assistant |
| Edward Dimmick Gasson, B.A. | Student Assistant |
| Stelle LaFlore Carter | Secretary to the Dean |
| Catherine Lipop Graves | Law Librarian |
| Nellie Wingfield Smith | Assistant Law Librarian |
| George Martin Thorpe, B.A. | Student Assistant Law Librarian |
| David McCord Wright | Supervisor of Law Clubs |
The Entrance Requirements are given in detail in this catalogue. Note
particularly the following: (1) That no credit is given for courses which
have not been entirely completed; (2) that "non-theory courses in Military
Science, Hygiene, Domestic Arts, Physical Education, Vocal or Instrumental
Music, or other courses without intellectual content of substantial value"
will not be acceptable for admission; (3) that no entrance conditions are
permitted; (4) that an "applicant for admission from outside Virginia may
be required to supplement his application by an interview with representatives
of the University."
Correspondence with reference to Admissions should be addressed to
the Committee on Admissions, Department of Law.
Correspondence with reference to Scholarships 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.
For information with respect to courses or credits in the College Department,
address the Dean of the College.
For information with respect to self-help, address the Director of the
Bureau of Self-Help.
The Post Office address of the University is "University, Virginia," and
not Charlottesville. Mail addressed to Charlottesville is delayed in delivery.
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 an
integral part of the University from its foundation.
The aim of the Department of Law has been, from earliest days, to maintain
a high standard as a requirement for graduation—the degree being conferred
only upon such students as have satisfactorily completed the prescribed
course of study according to traditionally rigid standards. This policy
has been uniformly 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 economic conditions and to meet the increasing
demands of the profession.
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 for admission to the bar in that State; and is on the
approved list of the American Bar Association.
Standards of the American Bar Association.—As an approved law school
on the list of the American Bar Association, this law school complies with the
official request of that Association that approved law schools include in their
Annual Bulletins a copy of the following standards:
"Standards of the American Bar Association."
(1) "The American Bar Association is of the opinion that every candidate
for admission to the Bar should give evidence of graduation from a school
complying with the following standards:
(a) "It shall require as a condition of admission at least two years of study
in a college.
(b) "It shall require its students to pursue a course of three years duration
if they devote substantially all of their working time to their studies, and a
longer time, equivalent in the number of working hours, if they devote only
part of their working time to their studies.
(c) "It shall provide an adequate library available for the use of the
students.
(d) "It shall have among its teachers a sufficient number giving their entire
time to the school to ensure actual personal acquaintance and influence with
the whole student body.
(e) "It shall not be operated as a commercial enterprise and the compensation
of any officer or member of its teaching staff shall not depend on the
number of students or on the fees received.
(2) "The American Bar Association is of the opinion that graduation
from a law school should not confer the right of admission to the Bar, and
that every candidate should be subjected to an examination by public authority
to determine his fitness.
(3) "The Council on Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar is directed
to publish from time to time the names of those law schools which
comply with the above standards and of those which do not and to make such
publications available so far as possible to intending law students.
"In compliance with the policy announced by the American Bar Association
in 1921, we recommend the establishment in each state, where none now
exist, of opportunities for a collegiate training, free or at moderate cost, so that
all deserving young men and young women seeking admission to the Bar may
obtain an adequate preliminary education; and, that the several states be urged,
through the Council on Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar, to provide,
at stated times and places, for pre-legal examinations to be held by the university
of the state or by the board of law examiners thereof, for those applicants
for admission to the Bar obliged to make up their preliminary qualifications outside
of accredited institutions of learning."
For further information, address Section of Legal Education and Admissions
to the Bar, American Bar Association, 1140 North Dearborn St., Chicago,
Ill. A pamphlet is available upon request, containing the various Rulings of
the Council upon the foregoing Resolutions of the Association, and a revised
list of Approved Law Schools.
Law School Building.—The Law School occupied from 1911 to 1932 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. But due to increased numbers, both in the
teaching force and in student enrollment, the Law School in recent years found
these quarters too limited for its purposes. This situation was relieved at the
opening of the session of 1932-33, when the Law School occupied its new and
commodious quarters, Clark Memorial Hall, which was formally presented and
dedicated on October 5, 1932. It occupies the elevated site in rear of the dormitories
known as D and E on Dawson's Row, now demolished.
The Law School was indebted for the new building to the generosity of
the late William Andrews Clark, Jr., of Los Angeles, California, a graduate of
the Law School of 1899. The gift is a memorial to his late wife, Mabel Foster
Clark, for whom the building is named. It is a modern fireproof structure, with
liberal and handsome provision for all the needs and conveniences of a modern
law school.
Law Library.—The Library contains about twenty-nine thousand volumes.
Its financial resources, from appropriations by the Visitors, and from special
endowments, make possible substantial additions annually. The Library contains
Books to date; the Canadian and Australian Reports; the United States Supreme
Court Reports; reports of all the American States in official or unofficial form;
the National Reporter System, complete; selected and annotated reports, together
with modern searchbooks in the form of general Digests, and the leading
Encyclopedias, besides a large collection of textbooks, and bound volumes of
law journals. Practically all the current American legal periodicals are received,
and bound volumes of these are on the shelves.
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 twenty-first volume. From its inception it has maintained a high standard
of excellence, and a worthy rank among the leading law journals of the country.
Adequate quarters are provided for the accommodation of the editorial board
and the business staff.
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, as a candidate for the degree, 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 upon the study of
law at the beginning of the session. Where this was impossible, it was formerly
the practice of the Law School to permit students to register at the beginning
of the second term, in January, but not later, save in exceptional cases. This
practice was then feasible, since new courses were begun at that time. With the
session of 1931-1932, however, a number of indivisible courses, some in each
year, were extended over two or more terms. It is, therefore, no longer possible
for candidates for the degree to enter at the beginning of the later term. In exceptional
cases, qualified students who seek special courses, and who are not
candidates for the degree, may be permitted to enter after the end of the first
term.
Fees and Expenses.—The necessary expenses of a student in the Law
School may be estimated at $700 per session of nine months. This minimum
estimate includes all University and tuition fees, board, lodging, laundry and
books. An average estimate would be $900 to $1,000 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; an athletic fee of $15 applies
to all students. The total fees, therefore, for Virginia students are $250, and
for non-Virginians $270.
Payment of Fees.—Fees are payable one-third upon registration; one-third
at the opening of the second term; and the remainder at the opening of the
third term. Failure to make satisfactory arrangements therefor with the Bursar
will lead to suspension of all University privileges. (See Regulation 2, post
page 355.
Registration as Virginia Student.—In order to be considered a Virginia
student, it is necessary that the applicant's parents be domiciled in the State if
he be under twenty-one year of age; or if he has attained his majority, that he
himself be domiciled in the State; and that either his parents or the applicant
for admission shall have been bona fide taxpayers in the State of Virginia for
at least two years prior to said application.
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.—Each professor has full liberty to adopt his own
method of teaching. In a great majority of the courses instruction is by the
case method, oral discussion in the class-room of cases contained in standard
case-books.
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 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 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 and according to rigorous standards are required.
Much practical work is done in the headnoting of cases on scientific principles.
The Law Clubs.—There are usually six or more Law Clubs functioning
actively in the life of the Law School.
Membership in the Law Clubs is optional but students are strongly advised
to participate in this work as it affords training in the use of the library, in the
preparation of briefs, and in the presentation of oral argument.
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; have successfully passed the required
examinations, with satisfactory performance of assigned practical work,
and have maintained a satisfactory record for ethical conceptions and honorable
conduct such as should characterize a prospective member of the legal
profession.
More specifically, the candidate for graduation must have completed all
the obligatory courses (see Outline of Courses, infra), and elective courses,
aggregating at least 21 term-hours.
A term-hour represents one lecture period per week throughout one of the
three terms into which the session is divided.
Degree with Final Honors.—A student who is without substantial deficiency
in the work of the first two years may, when registering for his third
year, seek to qualify for the award of the degree with Final Honors upon the
conditions set forth on page 358 infra.
ENTRANCE REQUIREMENTS
Suggestions as to Preliminary Education.—Prospective law 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 all law teachers is that the standing and progress of law
students may, in general, be measured by their academic preparation. Moreover,
sound academic training tends to develop and to refine the ethical sense so
necessary to an honorable career at the bar. It is this consideration that has
been, in large measure, the motive of the Association of American Law Schools,
and of the national and State bar associations of America, to stress, as these
have been doing for some years, the need of a higher educational standard for
students proposing to enter upon the study of the law. Students are therefore
urged not to begin their legal studies before completion of 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
conform to the general requirements following:
Entrance Credits.—In addition to the completion of an approved high
school course of four years, or its equivalent, the candidate must present evidence
that for two years at least he has pursued, as a resident, in a standard
college, courses acceptable toward a baccalaureate degree, of which he must
have successfully completed at least 30 session-hours, or 60 semester-hours.
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.
Applications for Admission.—Applications for admission must be submitted
upon forms which will be supplied by the Dean of the Law School. Such
applications, with satisfactory evidence of the required entrance credits, should
be filed in the Dean's office not later than September 1.
An applicant for admission from outside Virginia may be required to supplement
his application by an interview with representatives of the University.
Any applicant whose pre-law college record is not considered satisfactory
by the Committee on Admissions, from the standpoint of scholarship, may be
denied admission, or admitted only on Probation, even though such applicant
has completed the entrance credits required.
Courses Not Acceptable for Admission.—A candidate shall present at
least 30 session-hours (or 60 semester-hours, or their equivalent) of college
work, taken in a school approved by standard regional accrediting agencies,
and exclusive of credit earned in non-theory courses in Military Science, Hygiene,
Domestic Arts, Physical Education, Vocal or Instrumental Music, or
other courses without intellectual content of substantial value. This requirement
conforms to the rules of the Association of American Law Schools.
Recommended Pre-Law Courses.—The following subjects are recommended
as desirable pre-law courses: English, Latin, a Modern Foreign Language,
History, a Natural Science, Mathematics, Political Science, Accounting,
Economics, Psychology, Philosophy, and Public Speaking.
Evidence of the Required High School and College Work.—Evidence of
the required entrance credits must be in the form of a certificate, properly
authenticated by the Registrar or other authorized official of the institution
at which the college work was done. Such certificate must indicate, in addition
to the high school units offered for admission, the college 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.
No Conditioned Students.—Candidates for admission who have not completed
the required 30 session-hours will not be admitted with the privilege
of making up the deficiency.
Advanced Standing.—From 1904 to 1934 no advanced standing or other
credit was given for attendance at another law school, nor for time spent in
private reading. During that time the practical results were so satisfactory
that the rule must still be regarded as the prevailing policy of the law school,
as a general rule.[2]
During recent years, however, it has become apparent that iron-clad adherence
to this rule occasionally prevented the Law School from receiving an
applicant of the highest calibre. To make the admission of such an applicant
possible, in exceptional cases, the Law Faculty adopted a resolution, effective
with the session of 1934-35, providing as follows:
"Credit toward the degree of Bachelor of Laws in this Law School, in no
event to exceed the work of one full session, may, in the discretion of the
Dean or Assistant Dean of this Law School, or upon vote of the Law Faculty,
be given for courses satisfactorily passed in a law school in the United States
that is either approved by the American Bar Association or is a member of
the Association of American Law Schools. Similar credit may in like manner
be given for work done in law schools outside the United States. No credit
shall be given to a student who is ineligible for re-admission to the law school
in which the work, for which credit is sought, was done; and no credit shall
be given for work in any single session during which the student failed in two
or more courses. Credit once given may be withdrawn for unsatisfactory work
in this Law School. The Dean and the Assistant Dean of this Law School
are given power to make such rulings and adjustments as shall be necessary for
the fair and equitable administration of this general provision."
Admission of Women.—With the beginning of the session of 1920-1921,
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.
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 fulfil the foregoing entrance requirements,
may, by special action of the Law Faculty, and only in exceptional cases,
be admitted as special students, and not as candidates for the degree.[3]
The 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 infomation as to his age, general habits, his educational and
business experience, and his general fitness to undertake the study of law, with
a statement of reasons why he was unable to qualify as a regular student. Such
application, together with such testimonials as may be required, must be filed
with the Dean 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.
After considerable experimentation with the prevailing custom of giving credit for work
done in other law schools, this rule was adopted in 1904. From the beginning the practical
results were so satisfactory that it has become a firmly established policy of the Law School.
The rule does not rest on an assumed superiority of curriculum or methods, but on the practical
impossibility of dovetailing the parts of two differently arranged curricula. It also avoids
certain evils usually accompanying the advanced standing privilege. For an account of the
origin of the privilege of advanced standing, and the undesirable results, reference is made to
Bulletin Number Fifteen (1921, p. 168) of The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of
Teaching.
The limitation of the number of special students admitted conforms to the recommendation
of the American Bar Association.
SCHOLARSHIPS AND AWARDS IN THE LAW SCHOOL
The Louis Bennett Scholarship, with a yearly income of $200. 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 qualified applicants from West Virginia the award is made to a student
from Virginia.
The Virginia Law Review Scholarship, with an income of $200. Founded
in 1914. Usually awarded to the Editor-in-Chief of the Virginia Law Review.
The William E. Homes Scholarship, with a yearly income of $40.
Founded in 1920 upon the bequest of Peter P. Homes, '13, in honor of his
father, Judge William E. Homes, '69, of Boydton, Virginia. Usually awarded
to the Notes Editor of the Virginia Law Review.
The Daniel Harmon Scholarship, entitling the holder to 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 Woodrow Wilson Memorial Scholarship: Established in 1925 by the
United Daughters of the Confederacy with an emolument of $400. Appointment
is made upon the recommendation of the Chairman of the Committee on
Education in the State in which the applicant resides.
A number of duPont Scholarships are available to students in the Department
of Law. These scholarships are awarded to incoming students as well
as to other students in the Department of Law. The awards will be made on
the basis of character, scholarship and need. The amount of the award is subject
to the discretion of the Law Faculty at the time the award is made.
For further information with regard to scholarships see the General Catalogue,
or apply to the Office of the Dean of the Department of Law.
The Captain Micajah Woods Scholarship, with a yearly income of $400.
Founded in 1933 by a bequest of Mrs. Sallie Woods Rucker, in memory of
her father, Captain Micajah Woods, LL.B., 1868, of Charlottesville, who was
for many years a distinguished leader of the Bar of Virginia. Appointment
will be made upon the recommendation of the Dean of the Department of Law.
The Samuel Baker Woods, Jr., Memorial Award, with a yearly income of
$250. Established in 1930 by Forrest J. Hyde, Jr., '19, of New York City, as
Under the terms of the donation the award is made at the close of
each session to the law student who is a candidate for graduation the following
year, and whose scholarship, character, personality, activities in the affairs of the
Law School, and promise of efficiency, have, in the opinion of the Law Faculty,
entitled him to special recognition above his fellows.
THE WILLIAM H. WHITE LECTURE FOUNDATION
This Foundation was established in 1922 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 Law School of a series
of lectures, preferably not less than three in number, by a jurist or publicist,
especially 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 copy-right thereof shall vest in the Foundation.
OUTLINE OF COURSES
The table of courses and lecture schedule, as outlined on the following
pages, contemplate an average of about fifteen lecture periods (of one hour
each) per week. In view of contemplated changes, no attempt is here made
to outline the courses for 1935-1936. The courses and schedules are those
offered in 1934-1935.
Written examinations are held at the close of each term.
CONDENSED TABLE OF COURSES FOR THE SESSION 1934-1935. (Subject to alteration)
| First Term—September 17 to December 21 [4] | |||||
| First Year | Periods per week |
Second Year | Periods per week |
Third Year | Periods per week |
| Legal Bibliography | 1 | Real Property I | 4 | Conflict of Laws | 3 |
| Contracts | 4 | Professor Ribble | Brief Making | 1 | |
| Professor Dillard | Wills | 3 | Professor Nash | ||
| Torts | 4 | Professor Dobie | Equity III (including Trusts) | 4 | |
| Personal Property | 3 | Private Corporations | 3 | Professor Glenn | |
| Professor Buckler | Professor Glenn | [5] Partnership | 3 | ||
| Criminal Law | 3 | Virginia Procedure [6] | 2 | Professor Dillard | |
| Professor Dobie | Professor Nash | [5] Bankruptcy [7] | 3 | ||
| Code Pleading [6] | 2 | Professor Eager | |||
| Professor Dobie | [5] Taxation | 3 | |||
| Equity II | 4 | Professor Ribble | |||
| Professor Glenn | [5] Corporate Finance | 2 | |||
| Professor Buckler | |||||
| [5] Insurance | 3 | ||||
| Professor Eager | |||||
| Second Term—January 3 to March 23 [8] | |||||
| Contracts | 4 | Real Property II | 4 | Conflict of Laws | 3 |
| Professor Dillard | Professor Ribble | Professor Nash | |||
| Torts | 4 | Private Corporations | 2 | [5] Security | 3 |
| Personal Property | 2 | Professor Glenn | Professor Glenn | ||
| Professor Buckler | Negotiable Instruments | 5 | [5] Public Utilities | 4 | |
| Persons | 3 | Professor Eager | Professor Ribble | ||
| Professor Eager | Civil Procedure | 3 | [5] Admiralty | 3 | |
| Criminal Law | 2 | Professor Nash | Professor Dillard | ||
| Professor Dobie | [5] Federal Procedure | 3 | |||
| Professor Dobie | |||||
| [5] Corporate Finance | 2 | ||||
| Professor Buckler | |||||
| [5] Constitutional Problems | 2 | ||||
| Professor Ribble | |||||
| Third Term—March 25 to June 6 [8] | |||||
| Equity I | 4 | Constitutional Law | 6 | Professional Ethics | 2 |
| Professor Glenn | Professor Ribble | Professor Buckler | |||
| Common Law Actions | 4 | Evidence | 6 | Legal History | 4 |
| Professor Buckler | Professor Nash | Professor Dobie | |||
| Persons | 3 | Sales | 4 | [5] Public Corporations | 3 |
| Agency | 4 | Professor Dobie | [5] International Law | 3 | |
| Professor Eager | Professor Dillard | ||||
| [5] Corporate Finance | 2 | ||||
| Professor Buckler | |||||
| [5] Criminal Procedure | 2 | ||||
| Professor Nash | |||||
| [5] Creditors' Rights [7] | 3 | ||||
| Professor Glenn | |||||
| FIRST TERM | ||||||
| Hours | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday |
| 9:30 | Contracts | Contracts | Contracts | Contracts | Legal Bibliography | |
| Code Pleading | Code Pleading | Real Property I | Real Property I | Real Property I | Real Property I | |
| [9] Bankruptcy | [9] Bankruptcy | [9] Bankruptcy | [9] Insurance | [9] Insurance | [9] Insurance | |
| 10:30 | Torts | Torts | Torts | Torts | ||
| Virginia Procedure | Virginia Procedure | Private Corporations | Private Corporations | Private Corporations | ||
| Brief Making | Conflict of Laws | Conflict of Laws | Conflict of Laws | |||
| 11:30 | Criminal Law | Criminal Law | Criminal Law | |||
| Equity II | Equity II | Equity II | Equity II | |||
| [9] Partnership | [9] Partnership | [9] Partnership | [9] Taxation | [9] Taxation | [9] Taxation | |
| 12:30 | Personal Property | Personal Property | Personal Property | |||
| Wills | Wills | Wills | ||||
| Equity III | Equity III | Equity III | Equity III | |||
| 8 P. M. | [9] Corporate Finance | |||||
| SECOND TERM | ||||||
| 9:30 | Criminal Law | Criminal Law | Contracts | Contracts | Contracts | Contracts |
| Real Property II | Real Property II | Real Property II | Real Property II | |||
| Conflict of Laws | Conflict of Laws | Conflict of Laws | ||||
| 10:30 | Torts | Personal Property | Torts | Personal Property | Torts | Torts |
| Negotiable Instruments | Negotiable Instruments | Negotiable Instruments | Negotiable Instruments | Negotiable Instruments | ||
| [9] Federal Procedure | [9] Federal Procedure | [9] Federal Procedure | ||||
| 11:30 | Private Corporations | Private Corporations | ||||
| [9] Admiralty | [9] Admiralty | [9] Admiralty | [9] Security | [9] Security | [9] Security | |
| 12:30 | Persons | Persons | Persons | |||
| Civil Procedure | Civil Procedure | Civil Procedure | ||||
| [9] Public Utilities | [9] Public Utilities | [9] Public Utilities | [9] Public Utilities | |||
| 8 P. M. | [9] Constitutional Problems | [9] Corporate Finance | ||||
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| 9:30 | Common Law Actions | Common Law Actions | Common Law Actions | |||
| Constitutional Law | Constitutional Law | Constitutional Law | Constitutional Law | Constitutional Law | Constitutional Law | |
| [9] Criminal Procedure | [9] Criminal Procedure | |||||
| 10:30 | Equity I | Equity I | Equity I | Equity I | ||
| Legal History | Legal History | Legal History | Legal History | Professional Ethics | Professional Ethics | |
| 11:30 | Agency | Agency | Agency | Agency | ||
| Sales | Sales | Sales | Sales | |||
| [9] International Law | [9] Public Corporations | [9] International Law | [9] Public Corporations | [9] International Law | [9] Public Corporations | |
| 12:30 | Persons | Persons | Persons | |||
| Evidence | Evidence | Evidence | Evidence | Evidence | Evidence | |
| [9] Creditors' Rights | [9] Creditors' Rights | [9] Creditors' Rights | ||||
| 8 P. M. | [9] Corporate Finance | |||||
GENERAL REGULATIONS
1. Registration Generally.—Students are required to register in advance
at the office of (1) The Dean of the Law School; (2) The Bursar; and (3)
The University Registrar, for every course taken. Registration is not complete
until fees have been paid or proper arrangement for payment made with
the Bursar.
2. Suspension for Non-payment of Fees.—A student who is in default
in the payment of fees and has so remained for fifteen days will be suspended,
and deprived of all privileges of the Law School, until his financial relations
with the University have been arranged satisfactorily with the Bursar.
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 registation 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. Minimum for Which Students May Register.—No student, without
special permission, and for good cause, may register for less than a full year's
work as scheduled.
5. Exchange or Omission of Courses.—After registration no course may
be exchanged or omitted except on the approval of the professor in charge
and of the Dean.
6. Late Entrance into Classes.—No credit is given for the completion
of any course upon which the student has entered after 50 per cent. of the
lectures thereon in any term have been delivered. See requirements for Graduation,
ante, p. 348.
7. Courses Extending Through More Than One Term of the Session.—
a. Real Property I and Real Property II are so far regarded as separate
courses that one may be passed, and credited, and the other failed. They are
so far regarded as a single course that both may be absolved by attaining, in
the same session, grades which average the passing grade.
b. All other courses extending through more than one term will be credited
only in their entirety, each as a single course. Regular examinations will be
held, however, at the end of each term during which such a course is given,
and will be reported to the Dean's Office, for disciplinary purposes, but the
final grade for the entire course will be based upon the several term examinations,
with the usual adjustments for attendance, written exercises and recitations.
The last examination in such a course may cover the entire subject.
8. First-Year Students.—Failure on the part of any first-year student,
without just cause, to attain, for the first term, an average examination grade
of 80 per cent. will place such student on probation (see Regulation 11) for
the remainder of the session, and the student and his parent or guardian will be
at the end of the second term, his resignation may be required.
9. Carrying Over Uncompleted Work from the First Year.—Subject to
regulations below, students who have been found deficient in two or more
courses prescribed for the first year may be re-admitted on probation (see
Regulation 11). 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 the latter case, and only such a limited
amount of new work may be taken as will not conflict with the previously incomplete
work.
10. Carrying Over Uncompleted Work from the Second Year.—A
candidate for the degree who has proved deficient in one or more subjects
required in the second year may be required to repeat such courses without
privileges in optional attendance, or otherwise, and may be on probation in any
term during which he is repeating a second-year course.
11. 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. Any student on probation may be required to
resign unless his work indicates a marked improvement.
12. Conditions of Readmission.—A 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, but may be permitted to return, on conditions,
the next session thereafter.
In this connection, attention is called to Regulation 9 foregoing.
13. 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.
14. Optional Attendance.—A student who has attended the required
lectures on any subject, required in the first year, but has failed on the examinations,
may, with the approval of the Dean, secure optional attendance on such
subject the following session, to the extent necessitated by actual conflict in
schedule with the regular courses of the second year, but subject to Regulation 9.
15. Advanced Work.—Students are not permitted to anticipate the courses
of a subsequent year, without urgent reasons satisfactory to the Dean.
16. General Requirements.—Students of the Law School are required to
attend all regular exercises of the classes of which they are members, and to
perform all the work assigned, including quizzes and examinations, unless excused
for good cause.
17. Absence from Lectures.—A careful record is kept of the absence
from lectures and omission of prescribed work. Such absences, unexcused,
render the student liable to be disciplined and detract from his class or examination
grade.
A student who has been absent for any cause from more than one-third
of the scheduled number of lectures in any course shall, prima facie, automatically
be denied the privilege of standing the examination in such course. Under
special circumstances, and upon special petition, the Law Faculty may permit
such a student to stand the examination in such course.
18. "Dean's List."—An average examination grade of 90 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 required practical work, nor from review
quizzes. The Dean may revoke the privilege if abused.
19. Extra-Curricular 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.
20. Law Students Taking College Courses.—A Law Student, under special
circumstances, with the permission of the Dean, may register in the
College of Arts and Sciences for a course not exceeding three hours a week.
21. Special Examinations. (Subject to Regulation 24 below.)—No special
examinations are granted, save in case 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.
22. Re-Examinations.—No re-examinations are granted, except under
conditions stated in Regulations 14 and 23.
23. Third-Year Students—Incomplete Work.—A candidate for the degree
who at the end of 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 14.
24. The Same.—Students in the category mentioned in the foregoing
regulation who return for a regular examination as mentioned, and who reside
250 miles from the University, may be granted the privilege of standing one
The purpose of this provision is to avoid the expense of several return trips.
25. Examinations in absentia.—Students entitled to one or more examinations
under Regulation 23, and who reside more than 300 miles from the
University, may, in the discretion of the Dean and of the professor or prefessors
in charge, be allowed the privilege of standing such examination or
examinations in absentia under approved supervision.
26. Examination Fees.—The fee for standing such examinations as are
mentioned in the last three preceding regulations 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, are required
to 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,
under Regulation 21.
27. Elective Courses Required for Degree.—In addition to the satisfactory
completion of all required work a candidate for the degree must offer
credits of not less than 21 term-hours to be chosen by the student from the
elective courses offered in the third year.
Choice of Elective Courses.—Each applicant for a degree must upon his
matriculation sheet specifically designate those elective courses which the candidate
proposes to take in order to absolve the requirements under Regulation
27 (twenty-one term hours of elective courses) and under Regulation 29, if
applicable (thirty-one term hours). Such designation when definitely made shall
be final, and the candidate must pass the courses so elected in order to obtain
the degree. Grades in elective courses, as in obligatory courses in the third
year, will not be announced until after the publication of the degree list in
June. No addition nor substitution of elective courses after choice is definitely
made will be permitted except upon the approval of the Dean's Office, for
good cause shown.
28. 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.
29. Graduation with Final Honors.—A candidate who is without substantial
deficiency in the work of the first two years may apply (See Regulation
28) for the award of the degree with Final Honors, by offering credits
for elective courses totaling at least 10 term-hours, in addition to the 21 term-hours
of elective courses mentioned in Regulation 27.
The degree of Bachelor of Laws with Final Honors may be conferred upon
any applicant who has completed all the prerequisite work, with an average
grade of at least 90 per cent. on the courses offered in his third year, but subject
to such special oral or written examinations as the Law Faculty may prescribe
in respect to each such application.
Caveat.—At the date of the preparation of this catalogue the whole question
of whether the Law School shall continue the degree of Bachelor of Laws
with Final Honors, and, if so, under what conditions, is being studied by a
committee of the Law Faculty. For this reason the catalogue announcement is
being left as it has appeared heretofore, but should be regarded as subject to
change for the session of 1935-36.
30. 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.
31. Honor System.—All written tests and examinations are conducted
under the Honor System.
| The University of Virginia record April 1, 1935 | |