The Sun.
London, England, 1863-08-07 00:00:00

THE SON, TONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, AUGUST 7,186 g.

INNS OF COURT.

The Council of Legal Education have approved
the following rules ilr the public examination of
the students in Michaelmas term :
The attention of the students is requested to the follow-
ing rules of the Inns of Court :

As an inducement to students to propose themselves for
examination, studentships shall be founded of 50 guineas per
annum each, to continue for a period of three years, and one
such studentship shall be conferred on the most distin-
guished student at eaoh public examination; and, further,
the Examiners shall select and certify the names of three
other students who shall have passed the next best exami-
nations ; and the Inns of Court to which such students be-
long may, if desired, dispense with any tams, not exceed-
ing two, that may remain to be kept by such students pre-
viously to their being called to the Bar. Provided that the
Examiners shall not be obliged to confer or grant any stu-
dentship or certificate unless they shall be of opinion that
the examination of the students they select has been such as
entitles them thereto.

"At every call to the Bar those students who have passed
a public examination,and either obtained a studentship or a
certificate of honour, shall take rank in seniority over all
other students who shall be called 011 the same day.
" No students shall be eligible to be called to the Bar who
shall not either have attended during one whole year the
lentreg of two of the readers, or have satisneeforily passed
a public examination.
" IitLES FOR THE PUBLIC EXAMINATION OF CANDIDATES
FOIL HONOURS OP CERTIFICATES ENTITLING STUDENTS
TO BE CALLED TO THE BAR.
" An examination will be held in next Michaelmas Term
to which a student of any of the Inns of Court who is desi-
rous of becoming a candidate for a studentship or honours,
or of obtaining a certificate of fitness for being called to the
Bar., will be admissible.
"Each student proposing to submit himself for examina-
tion will be required to enter his name at the Treasurer's-
office of the Inn of Court to which he belongs on or before
Thursday, October 22 next; and he will be further required
to state in writing whether his object in offering himself for
examination is to compete for a studentship or other honour-
able distinction, or whether he is merely desirous of obtain-
ing a certificate preliminary to a call to the Bar.
"The examination will commence on Thursday, October
29, and will be continued on the Friday and Saturday fol-
lowing.
"It will take place in the Bencher's Reading-room of
Lincoln's .inn, and the doors will be closed 10 minutes after
the time appointed for the commencement of examination.
"The examination, by printed questions, will be conducted
in the following order :-
" Thursday morning, October 29, at half-past 9, on
Constitutional Law and Legal History ; in the afternoon,
at half-past 1, on Equity.
" Friday morning. October 30, at half-past 9, on Common
Law ;in the afternoon, at half-past 1, on the Law of Real
Property, &c.
" Saturday morning, Oct. 31, at half-past 9, on Juris-
prudence and the Civil Laws; in the afternoon at half-past
1, a paper will be given to the students including questions
bearing upon all the foregoing subjects of examination.
"The oral examination will be conducted in the same order,
during the same hours, and on the same subjects as those
already marked out for the examination by printed ques-
tions, except that on Saturday afternoon there will be no
oral examination.
" The oral examination of each student will be conducted
apart from the other students; and the character of that
examination will vary, according as the student is a candi-
date for honours or a studentship, or desires simply to ob-
tain a certificate.
" The oral examination and printed questions will bo
founded on the books below mentioned, regard being had,
however, to the particular object with a view to which the
student presents himself for examination.
" In determining the question whether a student has passed
the examination in such a manner as to entitle him to be
called to the Bar, the Examiners will principally have regard
to the general knowledge of law and jurisprudence which
he has displayed.
" A student may present himself at any number of exa-
minations until he shall have obtained a certificate.
" Any student who shall obtain a certificate may present
himself a second time for examination as a candidate for the
studentships, but only at one of the three examinations im-
mediately succeeding that at which he shall have obtained
such certificate; provided that if any student so presenting
himself shall not succeed in obtaining the studentship, his
name shall not appear in the list.
" Students who have kept more than eleven terms shall
not be admitted to an examination for the studentship.
" The Reader on Constitutional Law and Legal History
will expect candidates for honours to be well acquainted
with the Origin and Progress of our Laws and Constitution
as explained in chapter 8, part 3, of Hallam's History of
the Middle Ages.'
" He will expeci them to be well acquainted with the Great
Chat ter (on which they will find an excellent commentary
in "Sullivan's Lectures,'
39, 40, 41, 42, and 43, pages 343
to 381); with the reigns of Edward I. and Richard H.; with
the chapters in Hallam's Constitutional History, which
contain an account of the reigns of Henry VII,, Henry
VIII., Elizabeth, the Stuarts, William 111., and Anne;
with the State Trials in the reign of Henry VIII., of the
Duke of Buckingham in Mary, of Throgmorton, of the re-
markable trials during the reigns of the Stuart a and William
111. ; with the history of the Law of Treason, Libel, and of
Chapters in the third volume of Lord
CommentarirLresgase:lvit-i
the Tenure of Land down to the beginning of this century.
" He refers those candidates especially to the 26th, 27th,
Ptholitical Philosophy ;' to the close of the 23d
Brougham's2Bth and 29
Hunie,o History,' vol. 3, page 296, octavo
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the Act to further amend the
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115 ; the Act to regulate the procedure in the High Court
of Chancery and the Court of Chancery of the County Pala-
tine of Lancaster, 25 and 26 Vict,, cap. 42 ; the General
'11:; ofN Chancery,' introduction ; chap.
Orders of the Court of Chancery of the Ist of February,
, pt. 2, p. 58) ; ' Mitford on
(the first six pages) ; chap.
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2, sec. 1; chap. 2, sec. '2, part 1 (the first three pages);
chap. 2, sec. 2, part 2 (the first two pages); chap. 2, sec. 2,
part 3 ; chap. 3.
" Candidates for certificates of having passed a satisfactory
examination will be expected to be well acquainted with
the books mentioned in the first of the above classes,
" Candidates fora studentship or honours will be examined
in the books mentioned in the two classes.

"The Reader on the Law of Real Property proposes to
examine in the following books and subjects :
Joshua Williams on the Law of Real Property,'
sixth edition. 2. The Specific Performance of Contracts,
and the Remedies at Law for their Breach'; Sugden V. and P.,
14th edition, cap. 5, sec. 3, pp. 200.223, or Dart's V. and P.,
third edition, caps. 17 and 18, pp. 609-745. 3. The Law of
Uses ; Tyrell's case, Tudor's Leading Conveyancing
Cases,' second edition, pp. 274-304. 4. The Acts 22 and 23
Vict., cap. 35, and 23 and 24 Vict., cap. 38, and the Notes
to those Acts in the editions of Wafters, Hunter, or Lang-
ley. 5. The Mutual Rights of Husband and Wife as re-
gards property ; Josiah William Smith on Real and
Personal Property,' second edit., 973-1,010; and the Acts
20 and 21 Viet., cap. 57-
" Candidates for honours or the studentship will be exa-
mined in all the foregoing books and subjects; candidates
for a certificate in those under heads 1,2, and 3,
"The Reader on Civil Law and Jurisprudence proposes
to examine in the following books and subjects :
"1. Justinian's Institutes,' book 111., with the notes of
Ortolan or Sandars. 2. Mackeldeii Systema Juris Ro-
mani'—Pars Specialis, Lib. li., secs. 352-416 (pp. 362-407,
edit. Lips., 1847). 3.' Code Napoleon,' arts. 1,582-1,701 ; De
la Vente, arts. 1,708-1,831; Du Contrat du Louage, arts,
1,832-1,873; Du Contrat de Societe. Code de Commerce,'
part 18-64. Des Societies. 4. Wheaton's International
Law,' part 4, chap. 3 ; Rights of War as to Neutrals (edit.
1863). 5. ' Austin's Province of Jurisprudence Defined,'
Lecture 6.

" Candidates for the studentship or honours will be exa-
mined in the whole of the above-named books and subjects;
but candidates for a pass certificate will be examined in 1,
4, and 5,

" The reader on Common Law proposes to examine in the
following books and subjects :
"Candidates for a pass certificate will be examined in-1.
The ordinary steps and course of pleading in an action; 2.
Smith's Lectures on Contracts' (last edit., secs. 1-5, inclu-
sive) ; 3. The Law of Torts—' Broom's Commentaries'
(second edit.), book 111. ; 4. The Laws of Homicide and
Larceny as contained in the statutes 24 and 25 Vic., cap,
100, secs. 1-10, and cap. 96, secs, 1-9, 40, 41, 51-61, 67, 68,
and 88, with the notes thereto in Mr. Greaves's edition of
the Criminal Law Consolidation and Amendment Acts.
Candidates for the studentship and honours will be examined
in the above books and subjects, and also in-5. The under-
mentioned cases, with the notes appended to them, contained
in ' Smith's Selection 'of Leading Cases' (last edition) :
' Armory v. Delomirie," Ashby v. White,' ' Chandelor v
Lopus,' Coggs v. Bernard,' Collins v. Blantern.' 6:
Selwyn's Nisi Prius,' twelfth edition, chap. 9—' Bille of
Exchange and Promissory Notes,' 7. "Broom's Legal