The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-08-26
LASTED FOR SEVEN HOURS
Slxty-Six Questions Given And Forty
Four Answers Required.
THERE WAS ONE CoLoRED APPLICANT
The Questions Regarded As Comprehensive
Ones, But Not Of ANY Catch Nature
or Full of Intricate
Points

The Supreme court room yesterday was
the scene of much activity for seven
hours. AT 10 o'clock in the morning be-
gan the written examination of the APP
plicants to practice law, and these were
busy until o'clock. There were fifty
four of these and in the number there
was one colored applicant. Twenty five
of the applicants are from the Univer-
sity, sixteen from Wake Forest, and the
personnel of the body is an excellent one.
The applicants went at the work before
them with a will, and talking with them
last night it was gathered that the ques-
lions were regarded as comprehensive,
but not as a specially hard set, or as in
volving mixed and intricate subjects and
consisting of catches" AS soon as the
papers are examined the successful APP
plicants will be announced.
The rules of the Court requires that
the applicant for license to practice law
must be twenty-one years of age, must
have read law for two years, taking the
prescribed course or it's equivalent
These requirements are obligatory and
are put in the preliminary questions. If
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the Court declines to further examine
the paper or to issue the license, except
in one case. This is when the applicant
will become of age before the next term
of the Supreme Court, but in case he
passes the examination his license will
not be issued to him until he becomes OF
age
The texts which the applicants are re-
quired to have studied are EweIl's Es-
sentials G vols); Clark on Corporations;
Schouler on Executors; Bispham's
Equity: Clark's Code of Civil Procedure;
Volume /, Code of North Carolina; Con-
stitution of the United States; Creasy's
English Constitution; Sharswoods Legal
Ethics.
Each applicant deposits $1,000, and of
this $4,000 is the tax due the State and
81 90 for the parchment on which the GER
tiffcate is printed. In case the applicant
fails to obtain license this amount is re-
funded. In the examination of yesterday
there was deposited $1,1SS, Of which 81 ,0S0
is the tax to the State.
The examination given consists of six
ty-siX written questions and to pass it
is required that forty-four of these be
answered correctly, or substantially so.
The applicants are not allowed to give or
receive help from any person, or to use
any book or paper to aid in answering.
The applicants papers are numbered by
the Clerk and he is not allowed to give
his name or that of the person under
whom he has studied.
Following the preliminary questions
come the sixty-six questions divided
h. Of
Carolina, three on the Constitution of the
United States, thirty eight on Common
Law. eighteen on Equity, and three on
the Code, as follows
CONSTITUTION OF NORTH CARO-
LIMA.
l. When will the finding by the Judge
of the issues of fact have the force and
effect of verdict by a jury?
2. When the statute prescribes, in
criminal matter, punishment not to eX-
ceed fine of fifty dollars or imprison-
ment for one months. what Court has
jurisdiction to finally determine?
3. Has justice of the peace jurisdic-
ton to sentence a party, convicted in his
Court, to hard labor, whether it be in the
penitentiary or upon the roads?
f. In what class of legislation has the
Governor the power to veto an Act of the
General Assembly?
CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED
STATES
5. Can bill for raising revenue orig
mate in either House of Congress?
6. After a bill shall have passed the
House of Representative and the Senate,
what then remains to be done in order
that it may become law?
z. What courts are established by the
Constitution of the United States?
COMMON LAW.
3. When may the fee be in allegiance?
9. For what purpose was the Statute
of Westminster the second (statute de
donis conditionalIDus) passed and what
estate originated from it?
10. What is an executory devise and in
what material points does it differ from
a remainder?
II. In what respect does an executory
devise differ from a contingent or spring
ing use?
u. If there be two clauses in a will so
totally repugnant to each other that
they can not stand together, how will
they be construed?
13. What is a chose in action?
IA What is meant by title by success
sion?"
IL. What title has the husband in the
chattels-real of his wife?
16. When does person become the
executor of an executor, and why?
IT, purchased horse from B on
January 1, 1902; the next day, after the
sale and delivery of the horse, A suspect
ed that the horse was unsound, and pro-
posed to return the horse and receive
back his money but B declined the prop
osition and thereupon warranted the
horse to be sound. Several days thereaf-
ter it was discovered that the horse was
unsound when the sale was made, but
such was not known to B. Now. what
action can A maintain against B, and
why?
is. What is private nuisance and the
remedies?