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XI.—School of Law.
PROFESSOR MINOR.
PROFESSOR HOLCOMBE.
The object in this school is to acquaint the student familiarly
and practically with the principles of his profession.
With this view, instruction (which is designed to be as
thorough as possible) is given partly through, text-books,
and daily examinations upon the subjects taught, partly by
comments intended to supply what is deficient and explain
what is obscure in the text, and partly also by independent
lectures.
A Moot-court is instituted in connection with the school,
to perfect the student in the details of practice. Under
the immediate superintendence of the Professors he is required
to pronounce opinions upon supposed cases; to devise
and to institute remedies, by suit or otherwise; to conduct
suits at law and in chancery, from their inception, through
all their stages; to draw wills, conveyances and other assurances;
and, in short, to perform most of the functions of a
practising lawyer.
The school is divided into three classes, viz: the Junior
class, embracing such studies as are at once essential to the
professional student, and form a highly useful branch of
general education; the Intermediate class, which is occupied
exclusively with the theory and practice of law, as a profession,
being adapted to the occasions of those who have not
time or inclination to push their elementary attainments
beyond the limits of necessity; and the Senior class, in
which efforts are made to impart a professional cultivation
as liberal as the growing wants of the country shall demand
or allow.
The degree of Bachelor of Laws is conferred upon those
who, upon examination, manifest a familiar acquaintance
with the subjects taught in all the classes; and to those who
exhibit a competent knowledge of International and Constitutional
Law and of the science of Government, a certificate
of proficiency is awarded.
The course of study in the several classes is as follows:
Junior Class.—Lectures on Government, Federalist,
Dewer's Outlines, Madison's Report 1799, Polson's Law of
Nations, Select Chapters of Vattel's Law of Nations, Blackstone's
Commentaries.
Intermediate Class—Stephen on Pleading, Lomax's Digest,
Smith's Mercantile Law, Greenleaf's Evidence, Holcombe's
Equity.
Senior Class—Adam's Equity, Chitty on Contracts, Barton's
Suit in Equity, Lomax on Executors, &c., Lectures on
Civil Law.
The student is recommended to be provided with the following
books for reference, viz: Gordon's Digest of Laws of
United States, and Virginia Code of 1849.
All the books required can be procured at the book stores
near the University, on reasonable terms.
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