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UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA.

PRIVATE SUMMER COURSE OF LAW LECTURES—1892.

Lectures to Commence JULY 7th (1st Thursday) and to continue two months.

This is the twenty-third year that this course has been kept up, and having
proved beneficial beyond expectation, it is designed to be vigorously maintained.

Three classes of persons will derive peculiar profit from it, namely:

1. Those just beginning their professional studies, who design ultimately to
attend a full course at the Law School here or elsewhere;

2. Those who, from want of time, means or inclination to resort to a Law School,
propose to pursue their studies privately. It is not too much to say that in general
this two months' course will impart to the faithful student a better knowledge of the
law, and more facility in future study and acquisition, than a year, or even two years,
of private reading without regular teaching; and

3. Those young practitioners who, not having had the advantage of systematic
instruction, find their progress slow, painful and unsatisfactory, so as not seldom to
discourage their persistent application, which is indispensable to permanent success in
the law. To persons of this class, experience has shown this short course to be so
eminently serviceable that, in the interest of the profession, and with a view to promote
familiarity with its cardinal doctrines, hardly less than in respect of his private
emolument, the instructor would fain see his young brethren try for themselves the
value of a summer so spent.

The location of the University, in the mountains of Virginia, is perfectly healthful,
and no inconvenience in the past years has been experienced by the most assiduous,
during the two months assigned to the course.

The Junior Class—Is intended specially for those who are yet in their novitiate,
whether they intend to continue their studies at a Law School or not; but it has
been found so very profitable to the practitioners who have heretofore attended
it as to recommend it to them not less strongly. Fifty-four Lectures.

The Advanced Class—Is designed for students more advanced, and especially
for such as have had some experience in the practice of the profession. The
lectures (Twenty-seven in number) relate to miscellaneous topics of practical
utility, such as the outline of Equity Pleading, the principles which regulate the
adjustment of Fiduciary and other accounts, the principles which determine the
proper parties to Actions, the leading principles of the law of Legacies, the Doctrine
touching the Registry of Conveyances, etc., etc., varying the subjects of
discussion as the apparent needs of the class may suggest.

No text-book is required except Blackstone's Commentaries, Chitty's edition of
which is preferred; but the Virginia Code (1887) will be useful for reference.

Terms:—For Junior Class, $40.00; Advanced Class, $30.00; both classes,
$50.00; payable strictly UPON ENTERING.

NUMBER OF STUDENTS IN ATTENDANCE ON THE COURSE.

 

In  1874,—20  In  1875,—34  In  1876,—44  In  1877,—68  In  1878,—80  In  1879,—75  In  1880,—73  In  1881,—67  In  1882,—81

In  1883,—79  In  1884,—67  In  1885,—62  In  1886,—80  In  1887,—97  In  1888,—87  In  1889,—88  In  1890,—97  In  1891,—98

☞ Board may be had at moderate rates—say $16 to $20 per month, for meals,
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