The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-02-04
FOR LAW LICENSES.
Ihirty-lhree Candidates Are
Examined.
The Sixty-Sn Questions Asked. Forty-Folr
Must be Answered TO Pass. Three Of
the Aspirants Were Negroes.

Candidates for license to practice law
We're examined yesterday before the SUI
preme Court Thirty-three young men
We're present and took the examination.
OF these three were colored.
Sixty-sx questions were asked. To
pass the examination two-thirds of the
questions, or forty-four, must be an
swered correctly, or substantially so.
The applicants must be II years OF age,
and must have read law two years. and
must have read the prescribed course.
The questions were as follows:
l. What instruments constitute the
fundamental law of this State?
2 Where do the powers remain that are
not delegated to the Federal Government
by the Constitution of the United States?
B. Where do the powers remain that are
not delegated in the Constitution of
North Carolina? (Art. !, sec. 80
A. Whence comes the mode of trial by
jury, and how is it guaranteed?
S. BY what instrument was the right of
personal liberty first guaranteed to the
people of England, and by what writ is it
enforced?
s. What is the difference in the rules
of construction of penal and remedial
statutes?
T. What was jonture, and in lieu OF
what estate was it created?
s. What is an estate at sufferance?
g. When must remainder pass out OF
the grantor, and when must it vest in the
grantee?
10. If an estate in fee is given to man
and his wife, how is it held: and what
are the principal incidents of such ten
ure?
II. Give the rule in Shelley's case
IL. What are the requisites of deed?
13. What is bailment.
IA. When may a party move for judg-
ment non obstante veredicto?
Is. What is meant by pleading in con-
fession and avoidance? Give an in
tance.
Is. What is the difference between con-
tracts aud torts? Give an instance of
each.
II. What is an escrow?
is. When the offer and acceptance is
by letter, is the contract complete when
the letter of acceptane is posted or when
it is received?
19. What is partnership, and wherein
does it differ from a corporation?
w. III the cOHSlTuCtlOH Oh CONTRACT
where general words follow others of
more particular meaning, how are they
TO be construed?
q. For the purpose of civil liability
what consequences are deemed immediate
or proximate?
%. What effect did the death of either
party have at common law upon personal
actions of tort?
90 What ha origin IF
right of recovery for injuries producing
DEATH and what was the practical effect
of said act?
"a. What is the general rule as to the
masters liability for injuries received by
a servant from a fellow-servant?
% What is the difference in their ma
ture and results between libel and SLAM
der?
26. What must be proved to sustain an
action for malicious prosecution?
y. When may civil action be main
tanned for a public nuisance?
2S.What legal duty is imposed upon the
owner of a building as to it's safety?
20. What is the difference between pri-
mary and secondary evidence, and when
does the latter become competent?
30 What Is the difference between
the competency and materiality of tes-
timon-?
81, When contract is made in one
State, to be performed in another. by
what law is it construed?
80. What is the common law presump-
tion when goods intrusted to common
carrier are lost?
80. What are the most important rules
affecting estoppels?
cnDpcp .nro>-c
80. What is a corporation aggregate,
and of what does it consist?
50. Has a corporation any legal exist
ence beyond the boundaries of the State
by which it was created?
SO. Where corporations of different
States are consolidated under similar acts
in each State. or where one State makes
a corporation of another State. as there
conducted. a corporation of its own, is
there in legal effect a separate corpora
tion in each State or only one corporation
in both States?
81 Who can question the legal exist
ence of a de facto corporation attempted
to be organized in good faith?
So. What implied powers has corpora
tion?
SO. Can an ultra wires contract. not
DlnQlng upon corporation, De made so
by the ratification of the stockholders
State the general rule.
40 Is the delivery of a certificate OF
stock necessary to create the rights and
liabilities of stakeholder?
IL. Has a stakeholder the right to in
spect the books of a corporation?
AZ. What corporations. if any, have the
Incidental right to expel members for
cause?
IS. When is notice to an officer held
to be notice to the corporation?
A. What Is the law of comfy?
ADMINISTRATION.
IS. What is the difference between an
executor and an administrator?
IS. When is an administrator de bons
non appointed?
~. What is an executor dc son tort at
common law?
EQUITY.
IS. What are the three general classes
OF equitable Jurisdiction?
80. What is a trust?
Do What is the difference between an
active and massive tr,Ist2