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LEGAL EXAMiNATION.

HILARY .TER:AI, 1857.
The Council of. Legal cl'ucation have approved the fol-
lowing rules for the'puhlic examination of the students.
The:attention of the-stadents is requested to the follow-
ing rules of the Inns of Court :
" As an inducement to students' to propose themselves
• fort examination, studentships 'shell 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 dietinguished 'student 'at each public examination ;
and further, the .examiners shall select and certify the
names of three other students who shall have passed the
next.best examinations ; and the Tuns of Court to which
such students belong, may, if desired, dispense with any
terms, not exceeding two, that may remain to be kept by
such students previously to their being called to the bar.
Provided that the examiners shall not be obliged to confer
-or grant any studentship 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 i) nblic examination, and either obtained a studentship or
a certificate of honour, shall take rank iu seniority over all
other students who shall be called on the same day.
"No 'student shell be eligible to be called to the bar who
'stud; not either have'attended during one whole year the
lepiures of two Of the readers, or have satisfactorily passed
a pfthlic examination."
RULES FOR THE PUBLIC EXAMINATION OF CANDIDATES
FOR HONOURS, OR CERTIFICATES ENTITLING STU-
DENTS TO BE CALLED TD THE' BAR.
An examination will be held in next Hilary Term, to
which a student of any of the Inns of Court who is desir-
ous 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, the Ist day of fanuary next, :cod be will further
be required to state in writing whether his object in offer-
ing himself for examination is to compete for a student-
ship or other honourable distitiction'; or whether he is
merely desirous of obtaining a certificate preliminary to a
call to the bar.

The exaMFija tion will oommence on Thursday, the Bth
day of January next, and will be continued on the Friday
and S.aturday following..
It will take plibe in the Benchers' Reading-room of
coln's-inn ; and the docaw will be closed 10 minutes after
the time appointed for the commencement of tho examina-
tion.

The examination by printed questions will be conducted
in the following order :
Thursday morning, the Bth January, at half-past 9, on
Constitutional Law and Legal History; in the afternoon,
at half-past 1, on Equity.
Friday morning, the 9th January, at half-past 9, on
Common Law ;in the afternoon, at half-past 1, on the Law
of Real Property, &c.
Saturday morning, the 10th January, at half-past 9, on
Jurisprudence and the Civil Law; in the afternoon, at
half-past 1, a paper will be given to the students, includ-
ing 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 questions, 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 stadrntehip, or desires simply to
obtain a certi tic Ate.

The oral examination and printed questions will be
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 ho has displayed.
student may present himself at any number of exami-
nations until ho 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 studentship, but only at one of the three examinations
immediately succeeding' that at which ho shall have ob-
tained such certificate ; provided that if any student so
presenting himself shall not succeed in obtaining the stu-
dentship, his name shall not appear in the list.
Students who have kept more than Il terms shall not be
admitted to an examination forlhe studentship.
The Reader on Constitutional Law and Legal History
proposes to 'examine on the following subjects :
He will exreA th' candidates for honours in the ensuing
examination to be thoroughly, acquainted with the chapters
in ‘‘ Hallam's Constitutional History," which treats of the
reigns of Elizabeth of Charles 1., of Charles 11., of James
11., and of WA: am 111.

He will expect them to be acquainted with the history of
the law of treason, and the law relating to the press, to the
present time, and with the most important state trials and
impeachments during the reigns mentioned above ; and
also with the State tri..ls and impeachments during the
reign of James I.
He will expect them to possess a general knowledge of
the leading events in English history from the Conquest
to the year 1782.
Tue candidates for a pass will be required to answer
general questions in English tiStory, trba well acquainted
With,the history of the reigns of Elizabeth, of Charles 1.,
and Charles 11.
They will be required, also, to show a competent know-
ledge of the State Trials during the reign of Charles 11.
and William 111.

The Reader in Equity proposes to examine in the fol-
lowing books and subjects :-
1. 4 Smith's Manua) of Equity Jurisprudence ; Mitford
on the Pleadings in the Court of Chancery." Introduc-
tion : chap. 1, sec. 1 and 2 ; chap. 2, sec. 1; chap. 2, sec.
2, part 1 (the first three pages); chap. 2, see. 2, part 2 (the
first two pages) ; chap. 2, sec. 2, part 3; chap. 3. The Act
for the Improvement of the Jurisdiction of Equity, the
15th and 16th of Victoria, chap. 86.
- 2. The cases and notes contained in the first volume of
" White and Tudor's Leading Cases." " Spence's Equi-
table Jurisdiction of the Court of Chancery." Part
book 1, chap. 1,2, and 3.

CamiidatOs for certificates of fitness to be called to the
bar will be expected to be well acquainted with the books
mentioned in the first of the above classes.

Candidates for the studentship or honours will be ex-
amined 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 :-
1. "Joshua Williams on Real Property ;" the same
author "On Personal Property ;" and " Hayes on the
Common Law, -Uses, and Trusts."

2. The St;:tute of Wills ; the Ist of Victoria, chap. 26,
and the 15th 'yid 16th of Victoria, chap. 24.
3. The Statutes Bth and 9th of Victoria, chap. 106.
4. The Mortmain Act, the 9th of George IL, chap. 36 ;
" Corbyn v. French," 4 Ves., 418 ; and the notes to that
case in " Tudor's Leading Cases on Conveyancing," 408.
5. On Uses and Trusts ; " Chudleigh's case," 1 Co. 120 a;
"Tyrrell case," Dyer, 155 a ; and the notes to those cases
in " Tudor's I.4‘nding Cases on Conveyancing,'' 200, 251.
Candidates for honours will be examined in all the fore-
going subjects, and candidates for a certificate in thoo
under heads 1,2, and 3.
The Reader on Jurisprudence and the Civil Law pro-
poses to examine candidates for honours in the following
subjects :

1: The Elements of the Roman Law of Contract, Quasi-
Contract, and Delict ; to be collected from the third book
of the " fustitutionesJuris RomaniPrivati" of Wa►rnkonig.
2. The Modification of Rights and Duties, by Conditions
and by Limitations of Time; " Lindley's Introduction to
the Study ofJurisprunce,"page 78 to 98.

3. The Rules of Public ands Private International Law
which are derived from the Right of Independence attach•
ing to Sovereign States; to be collected from " Wheaton's
Elements of International Law," Part 11., chapter 2, or
from the corresponding chapters in "Story's Conflict of
Laws."
Candidates for a certificate will be examined in—

2. " Wheaton's Elements of International Law." Part
11., chapter 2.
1. " Sandars's Institutes of Justinian." Book 111., with
the notes, and the first eleven titles of Book IV.
The Reader on Common Law propQses to examine in
the following subjects :
Candidates for a certificate will be examined—
As to the practice and course of procedure at a criminal
trial, the jurisdiction of the Court of Quarter Sessions,
and the law of homicide and simple larceny. In regard to
these subjects should be consulted the statute sth and 6th
of Victoria, chap. 33, sec. 1; and "Archbold, Criminal
Pleadings" (by Welsby), under the titles " Indictment,"
" Larceny," and " Homicide."
Candidates for a certificate will also be expected to
answer—
Elementary questions on the law of simple contracts and
of torts reinediAble in tresspass and in case, and should be
familiar with the provisions of the Statute Frauds, secs. 4
and 17, and the 19th and 20th of Victoria, chap.. 97, sec. 3.
Candidates for the studentship or honours will be oxam•
fined in the above subjects, and likewise in the undermen-
tioned cases :
1. " Roscorla v. Thomas," 3 Q. 8., 234 ; " Emmons v.
Eldertou," 13 C. 8.. 495; S. C., 4 Ho., L. Cas., 624 ;
" Langridge v. Levy." 4 M. and W., 330; S. C., 2 Id.,
519 ; Brown v. Mallett," 5 C. 8., 591
2. The law of bailments, as expounded in " Coggs v.
Barnard," 1 Smith, L. C. 147, and the note thereto.
3. The law of evidence, so far as regards rules of ordi-
nary application at a civil or criminal trial (which may be
sufficiently collected from " Taylor on Evid.," 2 ed., part
2, chaps. 1-5, 7, 14, and 15).
By order of the Council,
RICHARD BETFIELL, Chairman.
Council chamber, Lincoln's.inn, Dec. 5. "

SUICIDE AT SEA.—An inquest was held at West
Hartlepool, on Monday, on the body of Robert Burgess,
aged 37, chief mate of the large screw steamer Sardinian,
Hubbard, master, of London. The steamer arrived at
West Hartlepool from Hamburg, which port she left on
Tuesday, since which day the deceased had kept below
in his bed. He was afflicted with disease, and had
abandoned himself to drinking, at Hamburg, and also
on the passage home. About 2 o'clock on Thursday
morning the captain went below to examine his chart,
when the deceased came to him from his bed, and said,
with a smile on his face, that he thought he was mad.
The captain advised him, to return to bed, which he did,
and at 6 o'clock the steward looked in to see how he
was, when a horrid sight met his view. Seated in one
corner of his cabin was the deceased, his back resting
against the locker, his right arm reclining upon it, with
a raz)r tightly grasped in his hand, a bucket between
his legs, and two frightful gashes in his throat. The
the windpipe, first hail corns
andu e ncut the e:hhootLe,r,hautt
firhuems second had
ear severedo
n a
piece of paper found in his cap were. written the words,
" Write to my dear wife." The wife resides. in London,.
but her address is not known to the. capt.am._ The jury
returned a verdict of "Temporary insanity.