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1841-2.

In Chapter 27, entitled, "An Act concerning the graduates of
the schools of law in the University of Virginia and in the colleges
of the state." Passed March 10, 1842. See Acts 1841-2, p. 22.
It follows:


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"1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That hereafter any
person who shall have graduated in the school of law in the University
of Virginia, or in the school of law in any of the colleges
of the state, and who shall also have obtained a certificate as now
required by law, of honest demeanor, and that he is twenty-one
years of age, shall, upon the production of his diploma, and also of
such certificate to any of the courts of this commonwealth, be entitled
to qualify in such court or courts, as counsel or attorney, in
like manner as if he had produced to the court a license from the
judges of the circuit superior courts, as now required by law, anything
in any former law to the contrary notwithstanding.

2. This act shall be in force from the passing thereof." Acts
1841-2, p. 22.