The Sun.
London, England, 1858-08-31 00:00:00

INNS OF COURT.

The Council of Legal Education have issued the
following rules for the public examinations of the
students in Michaelmas Term, 1858.
The attention of the students is directed to the fol-
lowing 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 student ship suall be conferred on the most distinguished
student at each public examination ; and, further, the exa-
miners shall select and certify the names of three other
students who shall have passed the next beet examinations ;
and the inns cf 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
Leing called to the bar. Provided that the examiners shall
not be obliged to consr or grant any studentship or certifi-
cate 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 on 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
lectures of two of the Readers, or have satisfactorily passed
a public examination."
RULES FOR THE PUBLIC EXAMINATION OF CANDIDATES
FOR HONOURS OR CERTIFICATES, ENTITLING STU-

DENTS TO BE CALLED TO THE BAR.
"An examination will be held in Michaelmas Term next,
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
Friday, Oct. 22 next, and he will further be required to state
in writing whether his object in offering himself for exami-
nation is to compete for a studentship or other honourable
distinction, or whether he is merely desirous of obtaining a
certificate preliminary to a call to the bar.
"The examination will commence on Friday, the 29th of
October next, and will be continued on the Saturday and
Monday following.
" It will take place in the Benchers' Reading-room of
Lincoln's-inn ; and the doors will be closed 10 minutes after
the time appointed for the commencement of the examina-
tion.
"The examination by printed questions will be conducted
in the following order :
pa
afternoon,
nL9 ootnr,
L2e9gthalotHoi
settoorbye;r, , ant hthelef-
COn4sFtirtiudtaiyonmaolrLilainwg'anthde
at half-past 1, on Equity.
on Common Law ;in the afternoon, at half-past 1, on the
" Saturday roaming, the 30th of p 9,
Law of Real Property, &c.
" Monday morning, the Ist of November, 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 including
questions bearing upon all the foregoing subjects of exami-
nation.
" The oral examination will be conducted in the same
d e
the same hours, and on the same subjects, as
those r , duringlrea d y
marked out for the examination by printed
o a
questions, except that on Monday 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 oh-
sin a certificate.
" 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 he has displayed.
" A student may present himself at any number of exami-
nations 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 studentship, but only at one of the three examinations
immediately 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 11 terms shall not
be admitted to an examination for the studentship.
" The Reader on Constitutional Law and Legal History
.will examine on the following subjects:—
" He will expect the candidates for honours to be well