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MOOT COURT.

A Moot Court, with its accompanying instruction,
tends to perfect the student in the details of practice.
Under the immediate supervision of the Professors, he is
required to write opinions upon supposed cases; to draw
wills, contracts, conveyances, and other assurances; to
devise and institute remedies by suit or otherwise; to conduct
actions at law and suits in equity; to argue questions
of law and of fact; and, in short, to perform most of the
functions of practising counsel. The debating societies, of
which there are several, also afford an excellent field for the
cultivation of the powers of oratory and debate.

Through the liberality of several of the leading law
publishers, the department is able to offer a number of
valuable prizes for excellence in the work of the Moot
Court. During the session of 1895-96 the following prizes
were awarded:

1. The EDWARD THOMPSON CO. Prize—American and English
Encyclopedia of Law (2d ed.), 30 volumes—To
Eugene L. Sykes, of Aberdeen, Miss.

2. The WEST PUBLISHING COMPANY Prize—American
Annual Digest, 9 volumes—To George N. Wise, B. L.,
of West Norfolk, Va.

3. The BOSTON BOOK COMPANY Prize—The Green Bag
(bound), 7 volumes—To Harry R. Kern, B. L., of Winchester,
Va.

4. The LITTLE, BROWN & CO. Prize—Kent's Commentaries, 4
volumes—To George P. Raney, B. L., of Tallahassee, Fla.

5. The T. & J. W. JOHNSTON & CO. Prize—Smith's Leading
Cases, 3 volumes—To W. Mason Smith, M. A., of Charleston,
S. C.