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FIRST YEAR'S COURSE.
1. Law of Persons; Personal Property; Probate and
Administration.
Professor Lile.
The preliminary lectures in this class are devoted to
the nature, sources, and evidences of the law; the absolute
and relative rights, and their constitutional guaranties; citizenship
and naturalization; and subordinate magistrates.
This is followed by a thorough drill in the subjects of principal
and agent; husband and wife, including their common
law property rights, with the modern statutory modifications
thereof, and the equitable separate estate; parent and
child; and guardian and ward. Later, the study of the law
of personal property is pursued in its various phases, followed
by that of probate and administration. Under the
latter classification are included the execution and construction
of wills; the qualification of personal representatives
and the settlement of their accounts; and the
25—Three times a week.
Text-Books.—1 Minor's Institutes (4th edition).
Burks' Property Rights of Married Women.
The Professor's Printed Notes.
(Others to be announced).
2. Law of Contracts; Torts; Bailments and Carriers.
Professor Dabney.
In this class the student is taught the principles underlying
the formation, validity, interpretation, and discharge
of contracts generally, regardless of their particular subject
matter; the principles of the law of torts, and their application
to the subjects of negligence, nuisance, trespass to
person and property, fraud and deceit, defamation, and
other cases of practical importance; the principles of the
law of carriers of persons and property, whether by land or
by water, and whether by incorporated companies or individuals,
including the transmission of messages by telegraph,
and showing in detail the modern application of the law of
contract and torts to these great agencies of commerce and
of social life.—September 15 to June 1—Twice a week.
Text-Books.—Anson on Contracts (Huffcut's Edition.).
Bigelow on Torts.
Lawson on Bailments.
3. International Law.
Professor Minor.
Under this title are included both public and private
international law. In the study of Public International Law,
are investigated the various rules which regulate the intercourse
of nations; the origin, recognition and equality of
states; their rights in time of peace, and the means whereby
they peaceably procure the enjoyment of those rights; the
laws of war and the rights and duties of belligerents; and,
finally, the rules governing the relations of neutral and
belligerent states.
Private International Law, or the Conflict of Laws,
occupies the second half of this course. The distinctions
lex rei sitœ are impressed upon the student, with the principles
controlling their application.—September 15 to December
18.—Twice a week.
Text-Books.—Public International Law: Glenn.
Private International Law: (To be announced.)
4. Mercantile Law.
Professor Lile.
Under this head are grouped the subjects of Negotiable
Instruments, Insurance, and Partnership. The instruction
is made as practical as possible, by frequent use of the various
mercantile instruments, as exhibits, in the course of the
lectures. In addition to the study of the general principles
of the law of insurance, attention is devoted to particular
clauses most usual in life, marine and accident policies, and
the New York Standard Fire Policy is studied, clause by
clause, in the light of judicial construction.—February 15
to May 15.—Three times a week.
Text-Books.—Bigelow on Bills and Notes (Students' Series.).
Richards on Insurance.
Text-Book on Partnership: (To be announced.)
The Professor's Notes.
5. Constitutional Law.
Professor Minor.
This is designed to be a continuation of the class in
International Law, dealing as it does with a cognate subject;
but in order to enter it, attendance upon lectures in
the former course is not essential. The two classes are
distinct, and may be completed separately. More attention
is given in this course than has been customary heretofore, to
the judicial interpretation of the Federal Constitution, and
to the great constitutional principles prevailing throughout
the Union; it being considered that familiarity with the
constitutional limitations on the powers of Federal, State
and municipal legislatures is more advantageous to the
theory of government. This course opens with the study
and a general discussion of the Federal Constitution, line
by line and section by section, particularly noting the historical
origin of the more important provisions, with a close
study of such subjects as ex post facto laws, laws impairing
the obligation of contracts, trial by jury, due process of
law, condemnation proceedings under the power of eminent
domain, the police power, interstate commerce, etc.—December
18 to April 9.—Twice a week.
Text-Book.—Black's Constitutional Law.
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