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SECOND YEAR'S COURSE.
1. The Law of Corporations.
Professor Lile.
The recent development of the law of corporations,
both in extent and importance, has induced special stress to
be laid upon this branch of the curriculum. Among other
subjects of lesser import, the lectures embrace the promotion,
organization and management of business corporations;
the formation and enforcement of subscriptions for shares;
corporate duties, powers and liabilities; the relations between
the corporation and the State, between the corporate body
and its shareholders, officers, agents and creditors, and the
reciprocal relations of these with each other; the consolidation,
dissolution and winding up of corporations; and the
appointment, duties and powers of receivers. The principles
applicable to municipal corporations, whether in their
public or their proprietary characters, are fully elucidated;
the subjects of municipal taxation, municipal bonds, franchises
etc., rights and liabilities in connection with streets,
as affecting the municipality, the public generally and the
abutting proprietor, are dealt with in detail.—September 15
to February 15—Twice a week.
Text-Book—Taylor on Corporations (used session 1896-97; Clark may
be substituted 1897-98.)
The Professor's Notes.
2. The Law of Evidence; Pleading and Practice.
Professor Dabney.
In this class are taught:
(1) The general principles of the law of Evidence, with
explanations of the statutory changes, especially those
relating to the competency of witnesses, and the practical
application of these principles to the conduct of inquiries in
court, or before officers authorized to take testimony.
(2) The forms of action, and the forms, principles and
rules of pleading, at common law and under the codes; an
intimate acquaintance with the common law rules and
principles being insisted upon as essential to a proper
knowledge of pleading, under any system.
(3) The organization and jurisdiction of courts, and
the proceedings in a law suit from beginning to end, including
appellate proceedings and the various special and
extraordinary proceedings provided for by common law or
by statute.
(4) The organization and jurisdiction of the Federal
courts; removal of causes from State to Federal courts; the
particulars of conformity or nonconformity between the
procedure at law in the Federal courts and that in the
courts of the State wherein they are held; and appellate
proceedings in the Federal courts.—September 15 to May
20—Three times a week.
Text-Books—Evidence: (To be announced.)
4 Minor's Institutes (4th edition.).
Code Pleading: (To be announced.)
The Professor's Notes.
3. The Law of Real Property.
Professor Minor.
The instruction in this class covers a detailed study of
the subject of real property, in all of its branches. The
nature and several kinds of real estate, and the several
estates therein, with the various principles appertaining to
each, curtesy and dower, the relations of landlord and tenant,
effect of the Statute of Uses, the conditions, covenants
and other qualifications attached to conveyances of land, are
reviewed at length. The historical connection between
ancient and modern doctrines of conveyancing, with the
statutory changes, are carefully traced. Remainders,
reversions and executory limitations, and the principles
governing their creation, validity and effect, together with
the sources of title to lands, whether by descent or by the
manifold forms of purchase, and the principles controlling
each, the subjects of conveyances, contracts to convey,
wills of lands, adverse possession, tax-titles, and the registry
of instruments of title, are investigated in detail. Throughout
the course, emphasis is placed on common law principles,
and effort is made to give the student a clear
comprehension of these, by tracing them to their feudal or
other sources.—November 25 to June 1—Three times a week.
Text-Book—2 Minor's Institutes (4th edition).
The Professor's Notes.
4. Equity Jurisprudence and Procedure.
Professor Lile.
The study of Equity Jurisprudence and Procedure is
taken up immediately upon the completion of the course on
the law of Corporations, to which it is designed to be
supplementary. After consideration of the origin and rise
of the chancery jurisdiction, the student is led carefully
through the usual subjects of equitable cognizance, and
thence into the methods of procedure, as recognized in the
High Court of Chancery in England, and as modified by
statute or by rules of court in America. In the study of
equity jurisprudence, the contrast between legal and equitable
principles is constantly adverted to, and the student is
incited to the appreciation and cultivation of the fine sense
of moral right underlying the doctrines of technical equity.
The procedure in the Federal courts of chancery and in the
chancery courts of Virginia (where the distinction between
legal and equitable procedure is still maintained) is made
draughting the various forms and pleadings, from the
subpœna to the final decree.—February 15 to June 10,
Twice a week.
Text-Book—Bispham's Principles of Equity.
The Professor's Notes.
5. Criminal Law.
Professor Minor.
In the study of this subject the student is made
acquainted with the general principles enforced by the
courts in the administration of criminal justice. He is
instructed as to the nature of the more important crimes,
both common law and statutory. Attention is paid rather
to the acquisition by the student of a thorough knowledge
of the leading principles than to the less important details,
which, with a knowledge of the former, he may readily
acquire for himself. The course of instruction embraces a
study of the forms of procedure, the nature, organization
and duties of grand and petit juries; arrests and bail;
indictments, informations, presentments, and the various
defenses; together with the usual incidents of a criminal
trial, such as challenges of jurors, motions for new trial,
bills of exception, motions in arrest of judgment, and writs
of error.—September 15 to November 25—Three times a week.
Text-Book—Minor's Synopsis of Criminal Law.
The Professor's Notes.
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