The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-11-16
NEW COURT RULES.
Admission to the Bar More
Strictly Guarded.
Tho Highest judicial Authority Re-
vises It's Experimentation
Qualifications.
SUPREME COURT PRACTICE.

Today new set of rules, framed by the su-
preme court for the guidance OF attorneys in
their practice before il, will go into enect- AT
the same time viii begin the operation OF regu-
lations under which in future attorneys will be
admitted to the bar of the state. The statute
directed that such regulations shall be made,
but it was not until the meeting of the State
Bar Association at Tacoma that the subject was
brought TO the front with serious intent.
Only the most important changes with regard
20 practice need be noted, as attorneys viii
shortly be supplied with printed copies by Mr..
9. g. Remnant, clerk of the court. Hereafter the
clerk will not file any transcript until the ap-
pellant shall have deposited with him the sum
of $40, as an advance docket lee, and he will not
lie any paper in any original notion application
" proceeding until the moving party shall have
deposited like sum for the same purpose.
transcripts must be fled within sixty days
liter giving notices of appeal or filing the same.
APPELLANTS brief must be filed within thirty
lays of the filing of transcript, and respondent
nust file his brief within thirty days thereafter;
appellant then has ten days for filing reply
hief. and no cause will be placed on the calen-
dr until the time for fling has expired. unless
tie party entitled to time valves his right
Where party does not appear when the cause
iscalled for hearing, and the appeal has been
Perfected, and the brief of such party is Oh file,
The cause, as regards such party, shall be
deemed submitted.
Actions to strike out any portion Of the tran
scipt or to dismiss or affirm upon the record,
ami all technical motions tending to prevent
stnt hearing OF a cause upon its merits, must be
maie and plainly stated in the respondents
brief, and will be heard at the time the cause is
assigned upon the calendar. All other motions
in .ppealed causes must be made in writing,
anS noticed for some Friday of the session ii,
theopening of court on that day. These will be
known as noticed motions
Except in the case of habeas corpus all appii-
cations for original writs must be accompanied
by proof of notice to the opposite party.
TIE material changes in the regulations as to
admission are of very satisfactory character,
both 20 the bar and to applicants There are
certain qualifications prescribed by statute
whicl OF course, remain unchanged. Appiica-
ton CT admission to the supreme court will be
heare On the third Friday of each regular
session, and examinations will be held by the
judges, assisted by designated members of the
bar Judges OF the superior court are required
to designate certain days for examination OF
applicants, which will be made by judge and
two members OF the bar, instead OF, now,
three mem bers of the bar
The course OF reading upon which examina.
ton IS held covers much the same ground as
now, and embraces the Constitution" and the
ssCode of Washington, "Code Pleading and
Practice" "Story on Equity Jurisprudence"
"Grenleaf on Evidence .'Blackstone's Com
mentaries," "Kent's Commentaries" "Bishop on
Contnets," ''Boone on Real Property" and
''Cooey on Constitutional Limitations" While
thereare some lawyers that consider that prac-
tice beiore the supreme court might have called
for aneven more extended course OF study, the
law makes no such distinction and the judges
were therefore compelled to make the same
rules apply to both lower and higher courts. 1t
cannot be said that the requirements are at all