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INNS OF COURT.

The Council of Legal Education have issued the
following rules for the public examination of the

students in Trinity Term, 1859 :—
" As an inducement to students to propose them-
Selves for examination studentships shall be founded
for 50 guineas per annum each, to continue for a
period of three years, and one such studentship shall
be conferred on the most distinguished student at
each public examination ; and, further, the exami-
ners shall select and certify the names of three other
students who shall have passed the next best exa-
minations ; and the inns 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 previous to their being called
to the Bar. Provided that the examiners shall not
be obliged to confer or grant any studentship or
dirtificate, 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 Students to

be called to the Bar.

An examination will be held in Trinity Term
next, to which a student of the Inns of Court who
is desirous of becoming a candidate for a student-
ship or honour, or of obtaining a certificate of fit-
ness for being called to the Bar, will be admissible.
Each' student proposing to submit himself for
examination will be required to enter his name at
the Treasurer's office of the Inn of Court to which
he belongs on or before Monday the 16th day of
May next, and he will further be required to state
in writing whether his object in offering himself
for examination is to compete for a studentship or
other honourable distinction, or whether he is
merely desirous of obtaining a certificate prelimi-
nary to a call to the Bar.
The examination will commence on Monday the
23d of May next, and will be continued on the
Tuesday and Wednesday 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 commence-
ment of the examination.
The examination by printed questions will be
conducted in the following order :—
Monday morning, the 23d of May, at half-past 9
o'clock, on Constitutional Law and Legal History ;
in the afternoon, at half-past 1, on Equity.
Tuesday morning, the 24th of May, at half-past
9, on Common Law; in the afternoon, at half-past
1, on the Law of Real Property, &c.
Wednesday morning, the 25th of May, 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 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 exa-
mination by printed questions, except that on Wed-
nesday afternoon there will be no oral examination.
The oral examination of such student will be
conducted apart from the other students; and the
character of that examination will vary according
as the student is a candidate for honours or a stu-
dentship, or desires simply to obtain 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 know-
ledge of law and jurisprudence which he has dis-
played.
A student may present himself at any number of
examinations until he shall have obtained a certi-
ficate.

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 student-

ship.
The Reader on Constitutional Law and Legal
History will examine on the following subjects :—
He will expect the candidates for honours to be
well acquainted with the early history of our Con-
stitution, which may be found in Hallam's Middle
Ages, chap. 10, and with the chapters in Hallam's
Vonstitutional History which ;give an account of
the reigns of Elizabeth, the Stuarts, and Queen
Anne.
He will expect them to be well acquainted
with the history of the Law of Real Property ;
the history of the Law of Treason; and the his-
tory of the Laws relating to the Press. He
will expect them, also, to be well acquainted with
the most remarkable State Trials before the reign
of George III.
He will expect all who present themselves for
examination to possess a competent knowledge of
the leading events of English history.
The candidates for a pass will be required to
Sossess an accurate knowledge of the reigns of the
tuart Kings ; of the Bill of Rights ; of the Act of
Settlement ; and of the State Trials during the
reigns of Charles and James II.
The Reader on Equity proposes to examine in
the following book :-
1. Hayne's Outlines of Equity ; Smith's Manual
of Equity Jurisprudence ; Hunter's Elementary
View of theProceedings in a Suit in Equity, part 1.
2. The cases and notes contained in the first volume
of White and Tudor's Leading Cases ; Mitford on
the Pleadings in the Court of Chancery, Introduc-
tion ; chap. 1, sects. 1 and 2 ; chap. 1, sect. 3 (the
first six pages) ; chap. 2, sect. 1 ; chap. 2, sect. 2,
part 1 (the first three pages) ; chap. 2, sect. 2, part
2 (the first two pages) ; chap. 2, sect. 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 for a studentship or honours will be
examined hi the books mentioned in the two classes.
The Reader on the Law of Real Property pro-
poses to examine in the following books and sub-
jects :-
1. Joshua Williams on the Law of Real Property,
fifth edition. 2. Hayes on the Common Law Uses
and Trusts. 3. The Charitable Trusts Act (9th of
George II., cap. 36). Corbyn v. French (4 Ves.,
418), and the notes to that in Tudor's Leading Cases
in Conveyancing, 408. 4. The Order and Priority
of Encumbrances upon Real and Personal Property;
Fisher on Mortgages, chap. 7, pages 341-468. 5.
Sugden on Powers, chaps. 1, 3, and 5, seventh edi-
tion.
Candidates for honours will be examined in all
the foregoing subjects ; candidates for certificates
in those under heads 1, 2, and 3.
The Reader on Jurisprudence and Civil Law
proposes to examine candidates for honours in the
following books :-
1. Phillimore's Introduction to the Study of the
Roman Law, part 1, chapter 3, to the end of chap.
ter 7—Praetor, Possession, Property, Contracts, and
Inheritance.
2. The Institutes of Justinian, book 2, and book
3, from title 14, witlythe notes in Sandars's
3. The last two titles of the last book of the Digest
—De Verborum Signcatione, De Regulis
The Reader will examine candidates for a certifi-
cate in :-
1. The Institutes of Justinian, book 2 and book
3, from title 14, with notes in Sandar's edition.
2. The last title of the last Book of the Digest,
.De Regulis
The Reader on Common Law proposes to examine
in the follawing books and subjects :—
Candidates for a Pass Certificate willbe examined
as to

1: The Ordinary Proceedings and Course of
Pleading in an Action at Law.
2. The Law of Contracts, so far as treated of in
Broom's Commentaries, book 2; in connection with
which should be read the Mercantile Law Amend-
ment Act (19th and 20th Victoria, cap. 97).
3. Stephen's Commentaries (4th edition), book
6; of Civil Injuries, chaps, 1, 7, 8, and 9.
4. The loaw of Simple Larceny, Assault, Homi-
cide, and Murder, as treated in the last edition of
Archbold's Cr. Pl. (by Welsby).
Note.—Questions will be asked respecting lead-
ing cases'cited in the text-books above specified.
Candidates for the Studentship or Honours will
be examined in the abovementioned subjects, and
as to :-
5. The following cases :—A. Law of Contracts.
_it Dalby v. India and London Life Assurance
Company,," 16, C.B., 365; " Morley v. Attenborough,,
3 Exch., 500 ; , Hochster v. De la Tour," 2 E. and
B 678.
B. Law of Torts.—" Langridge v. Levy:'
4
S. C., 2 Id., 519 ; " Barnes v.
111. and W., 337,
Ward," 9 C. B., 392; " Coggs v. Bernard," 1 Smith,
L. C., 147, with the note thereto.
6. " Euleos 'governing the Production of Teoti-