IMPORTANT NOTICE

There being only one publication stating all decided law of the United States, Great Britain and Canada, and citing all reported cases, it is the AUTHORITY to which the bench and the bar turn ex necessitate.

The title of this monumental work, to be found in most of the leading law offices, in all Supreme Court Libraries, College Law Libraries, and many public and private libraries, is Corpus Juris-Cyc.

Embracing in its 75,000 pages all the propositions decided in all the reported cases (1,500,000), it gives more complete and authoritative treatment of questions of decided law than is possible in separate textbooks, treatises, and legal commentaries, and is the one complete statement of all decided law and all reported cases. Over 400,000 legal propositions are stated therein, and the cases cited, distinguished, and compared, making it, in fact, a complete and sufficient law library of first and last resource.

That its vast stores of legal erudition and legal authority may be always at the service of all student owners of these small books and readily accessible for either study or practice, the publishers have keyed OUTLINES for REVIEW, THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION ANNOTATED, THE COLLEGIATE LAW DICTIONARY, etc., to this great parent work.

Thereby the reader of OUTLINES for REVIEW, if he wishes to have all the decided law on any statement therein, can turn at will to the precise pages in Corpus Juris-Cyc where complete and authoritative treatment is given and the cases cited.

Likewise anyone using THE COLLEGIATE LAW DICTIONARY can locate by the references to Corpus Juris-Cyc all the legal definitions of words or terms which have been variously used and variously interpreted by the Courts, sometimes involving whole pages in the Corpus Juris-Cyc treatment.

As a Constitutional question may be, and in practically every instance has been, raised with reference to all the specific titles of the law, the references to Corpus Juris-Cyc in THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION ANNOTATED, are of the utmost importance to students and to the legal profession generally.

THE

Copyright, 1925, by

VOL. II, No. 6 The American Law Book Co.

NEW ACT ALTERS

UNITED STATES
STATES SUPREME COURT

The bill to amend and improve the appellate jurisdiction of the Supreme Court and the Circuit Court of Appeals has now been passed by both Houses of Congress and has become a law. It does not go into effect until the latter part of May. Meantime, we in our Court expect to revise our rules completely with a view to aiding the inauguration of this new bill, so that when we return in the fall the Bar and the Court may be able to launch matters on the basis of the real reform that has been achieved by this bill. I presume that you have the bill. I send you a resume of the bill that I made last year. There have been some amendments but not many. I send you also a detailed analysis of the bill, also made last year, and not including the more recent amendments, but one that is useful because of its exact references to the changes that the bill makes. I hope that you will give as much publicity through your publications as you can to this law in crder that the Bar may be advised of its provisions.

Sincerely yours,

The American Law Book Company,

272 Flatbush Avenue,

Brooklyn, N.Y.

Enclosures.

Review of the Statute by Chief Justice William

Howard Taft

General Purposes of the Bill This is primarily a bill to relieve the Supreme Court of the increasing heavy burden of hearing cases which do not involve questions of sufficient importance to take its time, and which prevent its prompt disposition of serious cases of restrict the docket of that Court so as to enable it to dispose of the present arrears and to keep up with current business without interfering with its highest function of interpreting the Constitution and preserving uniformity of decisions by the intermediate courts of appeals.

great moment. It is a bill to

If this bill becomes law, every case now reviewable in the Supreme Court will still be subject to review there, if the Court finds that it presents any question which should, in the public interest, engage its attention. The change of many cases from the obligatory jurisdiction of the Court to certiorari class will enable the Court by a denial of the writ to give immediate notice to the par

THE SCHOOLS

University of North Carolina School of Law

Chapel Hill, N. C.

Formal exercises dedicating Manning Hall, the new law building at the University of North Carolina, were held January 23d, 1925, in Memorial Hall with President Chase presiding. Seated on the rostrum as guests of honor along with the legislators were four members of the Supreme Court Bench, several state officials, representatives of the North Carolina Bar Association, university trustees, and other distinguished visitors. The law students who had escorted the visitors across the campus in double file were seated as a body and were easily distinguished by badges bearing the word "Law" in purple.

The principal address was delivered by Dr. W. T. Vance of the Yale University Law School. Dr. Vance with no tinge of pessimism talked about "New Values in Legal Education." This was followed by greetings from the Supreme Court by Chief Justice William A. Hoke, greetings from the North Carolina Bar Association by President G. Vernon Cooper, the response by Dean Merton Leroy Ferson, the presentation of the building by Lieutenant Governor J. Elmer Long and its acceptance by Josephus Daniels.

The exercises ended at 2

o'clock and the honor guests were then invited to the Carolina Inn, where they enjoyed a fine luncheon.

the circuit courts of appeals, so that those seeking to know such jurisdictions will not need ferent amending and suppleto consult, as now, many difmenting statutes difficult to construe.

The bill has a further purpose of adding remedial provisions to existing law governing appellate procedure, so that

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The

Notre Dame Law School

Notre Dame, Ind. The following courses will school at Notre Dame Law be offered at the summer School: Constitutional Law by Mr. Konop, Equity by Mr. Hadley, History of the Law by Mr. Wooten, and Domestic Relations by Mr. Wooten.

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as

a profession advisedly, for it should be maintained as such by the knowledge that truth and honor are not for sale.

On the correct practice of the law, on the maintenance by the bar and bench of high ideals, depends to a large extent that respect for our institutions which is the only safeguard of their perpetuity. A lawyer is not only a private citizen but an officer of the court, an administrator of justice, and a servant of the state. To all of those who are about to swear allegiance to these principles, I take pleasure in extending my greetings.

CALVIN COOLIDGE

HETJA TOA

This issue of "The Law Student" will reach the hands of its readers shortly before the close of the school year, a busy time for all law students. With final examinations ahead, and, for graduating students, the test of the bar examination, the problem of a thorough review of past school work becomes more and more important and pressing. Ability to pass an examination is by no means the only criterion of a real lawyer; yet examination is the only test that can be presented by a school as a condition precedent to granting a degree and by the bar examiners as a like condition to admitting to practice. While the greater benefit secured from a law school course is the ability to think legally, to reason soundly, and to apply fundamental and well established principles of law to cover new states of fact, nevertheless this ability presupposes a thorough knowledge of these principles of law in themselves, and such knowledge can be gained only by intensive study and by cultivation of the faculty of memory. Initial and detailed study of a subject in school will lay in a student's mind the foundations of information, and review work thereafter not only will freshen his knowledge of the facts he has previously learned, but also in itself will train his memory to aptness in the association of ideas, in linking fact to fact. There is yet time for each student, before the end of the school year, carefully to review his notes of lectures and cases, and there is even more obviously time for him to study carefully, in order to refresh his recollection of law school work, some standard brief statement of the fundamental principles of the law such as Mr. Clark's "Outlines for Review." Time spent in the systematic study of this book and the use of the quiz questions and problems contained in it will do much to refresh the memory and brighten the chances of any law student at his school examinations and before the bar examiners. As the text is read, recollection of classroom discussion of the principles and cases is revived through association of ideas, and the whole school course brought again to the surface of the mind ready for immediate use. Moreover, the review process will not only serve the direct purpose of reviving previous acquisitions of knowledge, but also will strengthen and fortify the student's power to recall. so essential to make a ready and effective lawyer. When a comparatively brief space of time will do so much to prevent failure at examinations and also do so much to develop and perfect an important faculty, it would be the extreme of folly for any student to

shirk the labor involved. Review work to the conscientious student is a pleasure and to all students a necessity. Do not neglect it, but "get busy" now.

GOOD LUCK

SUGGESTIONS AND COMMENT

Editor of The Law Student:

The undersigned is a student of the College of Law, University of the Philippines, and an ardent reader of "The Law Student," sent here free by your kindness. Sometimes the

copies sent are exhausted before I can secure a copy. I note, however, that your publication is given free to all law students, and I should highly appreciate it if you would include my your mailing list.

name in

Editor of The Law Student:

sent

Editor of The Law Student: I received your annotated The first copy of "The Law work on the Constitution of the Student" that I ever had the United States, and it is most pleasure of perusing was splendid and thorough. It is me recently by La Salle Exthe best work of its kind to in- tension University of Chicago, still in the mind of the stu- with which University I am dent the immensity and broad- enrolled as a law student. ness of the great document I do not know that I ever which our forefathers have saw an issue of any magazine given us as the foundation of of the size containing so much this great country. It is not interesting data, all of which only useful to the teacher of has a special intrinsic value to Constitutional Law, but in other the law student. subjects, say for instance Criminal Law, Property, and I wish also to take this op- the Rights of the Person, much portunity to express my pro- valuable information from the found appreciation of the references can be had concern- Editor of The Law Student: spirit that directs the publica- ing the many rights granted I have been reading "Outmission as "The Law Student." thrown about the person and a wonderful book. In fact it is tion of a paper of such a noble and the many protections lines for Review" and find it I am sure I am speaking for his property, both absolute and the only book I have ever come all students of law in the Philacross that puts so much law ippines, and that they join within the covers of any one me in sending you a vote of volume, and not only that, but gratitude. one is taught to think in terms of law by their proper titles. Irve C. Boldman, San Diego, Cal.

Felix L. Lazo, 208 Leonor Rivera, Manila, P. I.

relative.

I am recommending the work for collateral reading to the

students.

Dean H. E. Rodgers, Wilmington Law School, Wilmington, N. C.

J. W. Shannon, Windsor, Vt.

New Act Alters Jurisdiction of United States Supreme Court (Continued from page 1)

it shall not by its lack of clarity constitute a trap for the practitioner and defeat an effort to review a meritorious

case.

State under the Federal Constitution has been drawn in question and its validity sustained;

(b) Where the validity of a federal statute or treaty has been drawn in question and its validity denied.

2nd. In four special classes of cases from the district court, which are:

Kinds of Review The ordinary methods of review by the Supreme Court, excluding such extraordinary writs as mandamus, quo warranto, and prohibition, used merely in aid of its general (a) Appeals from decrees appellate jurisdiction, are either in equity in suits brought by by writ of error or appeal, on the United States to enforce the one hand, or by certiorari, the Anti-Trust or Interstate or on certificate by the lower Commerce Acts. court of questions for answer, (b) Writs of error in crimon the other. Writs of error inal cases brought by the and appeal are allowed as of United States to judgments of right where upon examination the district courts in which the the case appears to be of the United States has been defeated class designated in the statute, by a ruling of the district and may be brought by the vol- court, and where the defenduntary action of a litigant. ant has not been exposed to Writs of certiorari are issued jeopardy or acquitted by a verby the Court in its discretion, dict of the jury. upon due application, and after an examination of the briefs and record to determine whether the case is of sufficient importance to justify its review. Review by certificate depends upon the discretion of the inferior court, the judges of which are permitted to certify questions necessary to decide the case before them, and the Supreme Court is authorized to answer the questions which shall be binding on the Court certifying them. Whenever the method of review provided is certiorari, a corresponding power to certify questions in such cases is given in the bill to the inferior court. In such cases usually the Supreme Court, after examining the questions, is given power to bring up the whole case for its disposition, if it deems it

wise.

Proposed Changes in Supreme Court's Method of Review

The great object of this bill is to reduce the number of

cases in which there is an ap peal or writ of error as of right, and increase those in

(c) Appeals from interlocutory injunctions against enforcement of state statutes by any officer of the States, or against the exercise of an authority of a board acting under a state statute.

(d) Appeals from interlocutory and final decrees of injunction and suspension of orders of Interstate Commerce Commission in district courts.

constitutional

those

In all other cases, to wit, (a) final judgments, in the state supreme courts, which in volve federal questions, other than above mentioned; (b) all cases in the circuit courts of appeals; (c) all cases in the court of appeals of the District of Columbia; (d) all cases in the Court of Claims, and (e) certain classes of cases from the Supreme Court of the Philip pines, the only method of review is either by certiorari from the Supreme Court, or (except from the Philippines) by certificate by the inferior certiorari to court of questions. Writs of

state supreme courts, to the Court of Claims, and to the Supreme Court of which only a certiorari or a the Philippines, can only issue certificate can bring the case after final judgments in those before the Supreme Court.

The courts over which the Supreme Court in this bill exercise a direct review are,

1st, The State Supreme Courts; 2nd, The District Courts of

the United States; 3rd, The Circuit Courts of Appeal;

4th, Court of Appeals of the

District of Columbia;

5th, Court of Claims; 6th, Supreme Court of the Philippines.

The only cases in the proposed bill in which the Supreme Court exercises obligatory jurisdiction, that is by writ of error or appeal, are:

1st. Over the final judgments or decrees of state courts of last resort;

courts. Such writs may issue to circuit courts of appeals and to the court of appeals of the District of Columbia, before or after judgment, but if before judgment, the application must be made before the hearing and submission in those courts.

It is impossible to estimate how many cases these changes

will transfer from the obligatory jurisdiction of the Supreme Court, as it is under existing law, to the discretionary jurisdiction of the Supreme Court, but it will be such a substantial number as greatly to help the Court to catch up. with its docket and to keep up with it thereafter. Jurisdiction of the

Circuit

Courts of Appeals

ILLINOIS BAR EXAMINATION

A Correction

Editor of The Law Student:

My attention has been called to a notice which ap

peared in a recent issue of your publication, "The Law Student," concerning the presumed change of date, in holding the Illinois bar ex

amination.