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THE LAW STUDENT

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The Legal Research Department is maintained by the American Law Book Company for the benefit of, and without cost to, its subscribers. Its purpose is to direct the lawyer to the pages in the Corpus Juris-Cyc System which cover his case.

If you are seeking to establish a proposition and find difficulty in finding the law stated, write us, stating your question clearly and tersely. We will tell you where, in the Corpus Juris-Cyc System, the law and supporting cases may be found.

Following are a few examples of how the questions should be framed. These are actual questions which have been submitted. The answers by our research department follow each question.

Is the title of an alleged fraudulent grantee to whom real estate has been transferred in fraud of creditors affected by her death after a bill in equity has been filed to reach and apply the real estate in behalf of creditors of the alleged fraudulent grantor? Does such death affect the procedure and the rights of the creditors of the grantor? Is the administrator of the grantee a proper person to be substituted, or should the heirs or devisees of the grantee be brought in?

The answer of the Legal Research Department referred the subscriber to 1 C. J. Abatement and Revival, § 273, p. 163; § 434, p. 215 et seq.; § 488, p. 232.

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The subscriber wrote follows: "We thank you very much for your prompt reply of October 7th to our inquiry of the 5th, and are glad

to inform you that the information set forth therein was a great help to us."

Where in Corpus Juris-Cyc.

is the distinction between a

mortgage and a deed of trust

considered?

The answer of the Legal Research Department ferred the subscriber to 27 Cyc Mortgages, pp. 966, 974.

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The answer of the Legal A owes B
Research
a certain
Department
ferred the subscriber to 39 that if he will do a certain
re- promissory note. C tells A
Cyc Vendor and Purchaser, thing he will pay the note
p. 1620.
which he owes to B. Can A
sue directly without being
B and recover against C?
subrogated to the rights of

United States district courts
What is the jurisdiction of
in equity, and particularly, is
such jurisdiction limited to
the district in which the court
is located?

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The answer of the Legal
Research Department
ferred the subscriber to 25 C..
J Federal Courts, § 349, p.
976, and § 16, p. 703.

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A testator in his will states
that he desires his wife and

children to receive share and
share alike of his property.

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Research Department
The answer of the Legal
ferred the subscriber to 13 C.
J. Contracts, § 815, p. 707,
texts 6, 7.

A deed recites that the

grantee is to hold for life and
at her death the premises to
pass to and vest in her bodily
heirs. Under the decisions of
the particular jurisdiction this
creates a contingent remain-
der in those who may be the
heirs of the life tenant until

her death, when it vests. The
recital in the deed, however,
should have conveyed a title
is incorrect and the deed
in fee. Can a decree be ob-
tained in equity binding upon
the heirs not in esse?

The answer of the Legal
ferred the subscriber to 34 C.
Research Department re-
J. Judgments, § 1421, p. 1000.

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AN APPRECIATION

University of Notre Dame

COLLEGE OF LAW

OFFICE OF THE DEAN

American Law Book Company,

272 Flatbush Extension,
Brooklyn, New York.
Gentlemen:

January 1, 1926

NOTRE DAME, INDIANA,

December 3, 1925. ·

On Monday afternoon your representative, Mr. Wright, delivered an excellent lecture on Bibliography before the senior class and about fifty others. I have since gotten some reaction from those who heard the lecture and they were very much impressed and most of the remarks were to the effect that we ought to have more of it.

I was present at the lecture myself and after Mr. Wright's explanation as to how to look up the law in Cyc-Corpus Juris I immediately went to look up a point which I had been searching for for some time and was able to find just what I wanted in about five minutes. On behalf of the faculty and students of the Notre Dame Law School I wish you would extend to Mr. Wright our thanks for his aid to us in "how to find the Law." Very sincerely yours,

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master's liability for injuries pensation Acts, which has
received by the servant dur- been already referred to,
subject is very thoroughly to "Trade Unions" which will
ing his employment.
and minutely treated not only take the place of "Labor
This there will be a title devoted
with reference to the substan- Unions," as it was styled in
tive law, but also with refer- Cyc. There is also a large
ence
presumptions, burden of
body of law devoted to ques-
to questions of pro- tions arising with reference
cedure, such as of pleading,
to alleged conspiracies of
proof, admissibility of evi-
employers or of employees,
dence, instructions, questions

He bequeaths $4,000 to each
The subscriber wrote
of the children and to his
wife a house which he values follows: "I am glad to state for court and jury, etc.
re-
at $4,000. In fact, the house is that after exhausting all
worth only $2,000. Will the sources of legal information
.specific bequests stand, or
which I had at hand, I took
the matter up with the Amer-
ican Law Book Company and
without delay received from
the company citations which
gave me the legal principles
upon which the matter in
hand could be definitely set-
tled."

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final main divisions of the Third persons. The three title are devoted to aspects of the law of master and servant which involve third persons as well as the employer and employee, namely the liability for injuries to third persons, the liability of third persons for injuries to the servant, and the civil or criminal liability of persons interfering with the relationship of master and servant.

These round out a treatment which we believe is the most complete ever given to the law of master and servant and which is contained within the covers of a single volume of Corpus Juris, although that volume is a very large one. The accomplish ment of this task is one of which the publishers are proud.

Other labor topics. Before closing this review, it may be well to state that not all the labor law which is discussed in Corpus Juris is included in the title "Master and Servant." In addition to the treatise on Workmen's Com

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a great many questions arise with reference to public and municipal employees, which are discussed in the titles devoted to the various governmental bodies involved, such as "Counties," "Municipal Corporations," "Schools and School Districts," "States," in many respects runs parallel etc. The law of agency which to that of master and servant is discussed as a distinct subject under the title "Agency." Other matters treated in the titles to which they more closely relate are shown in the page thirty-two of the volreferences upon

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News of the Schools

(Continued from page 1.)

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New York University Law
School

New York City

Professor Frank A. Erwin has retired after thirty years' service. The following additions have been made to the faculty this year: Professor George L. Clark, author of books on Equity and Torts; Judge William Clark of U. S. District Court for the District of New Jersey; Professor Frank White, author of White on Corporations; Professor Alison O. Reppy; Mr. Thomas J. Sefton and Mr. Godfrey E. Updike.

Four new courses have been added. Corporation Law Applied taught by Frank White, Municipal Corporations by Judge Clark, Administrative Law by Dean Sommer, and Insurance by Professor Vanderbilt.

The actual attendance at the school totals 1,940 students.

University of Wyoming Law
School

Laramie, Wyo.
No changes have been made
in the faculty this year. The
services of Mr. C. V. Garnett
of the Laramie bar have been
secured for the course in
Practice. Mr. Garnett will
give instruction during the
entire year, whereas hitherto
he was with the law school
during one term only.

No new courses have been added.

The university calendar has been changed. Previously

the winter term began after the Thanksgiving recess. Under the present arrangement the fall quarter opened two weeks later and the winter term will begin on January 4th.

Through the generosity of Mr. A. V. Phillips, of Calcutta, India, the law school has been enabled to begin a collection of prints of prominent jurists. A number of prints have already been secured.

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COLUMBUS COLLEGE OF LAW COLUMBUS, OHIO

The Columbus College of Law offers an opportunity to men whose purpose is either to pursue the profession of law, to become better business men, or who desire to enter the larger responsibilities of citizenship. A student may elect those special courses with which every business executive ought to be familiar, or he may elect those courses which are of importance because of their academic and cultural value. Suggested courses for business men are: Contracts, Agency, Partnership, Real and Personal Property, Private Corporations, Bailments and Carriers, Sales, Negotiable Instruments, Suretyship and Wills. Suggested courses for their academic or cultural value are: Constitutional Law, Philosophy of Law, Jurisprudence and International Law.

The classes in the Columbus College of Law are held in the evening. This enables men in active practice to accept positions on the Faculty. Among its members will be found some of the most successful lawyers and judges at the Columbus Bar. These gentlemen are moved to give their time and energies to the teaching of law because of the spirit of public service and of a desire to be of some assistance in affording a sound legal training for those about to enter the profession.

It is the aim of the Trustees and the Faculty to provide in the curriculum all subjects essential to the successful practice of Law. The course of study covers a period of four years of thirty-four weeks each year, thereby enabling the student successfully to cover the prescribed course of study ordinarily given in a university day school in three years. Past records have given the school an enviable reputation not only at the bar but among the business men of the community. This record justifies the position that if the school will provide a high-grade course of instruction covering a period of time sufficient to enable the student to qualify in each subject, the results will be entirely satisfactory.

The method of instruction combines the three approved methods of teaching lawthe textbook, the casebook and the lecture-in such a manner as to give the student the best possible results. Attention is devoted not only to imparting legal knowledge, but also to legal analysis looking toward the development of a legal mind-the ability to penetrate a set of facts and to develop and solve the legal point involved. The instructor assigns lessons from the textbook which the students are required to prepare; casebooks are used and illustrative cases assigned; while explanatory lectures and frequent quizzes are given. This general method trains the student in habits of study and in concentration of thought; gives him the legal principles and a broad understanding of their relation to each other; and fixes these principles in his memory by a series of concrete illustrations. Supplementing the courses given by the regular faculty are lectures given each year by a staff of special lecturers, each of whom has been selected for this responsibility by reason of his eminence in the subject assigned

to him.

Georgetown University Law

School
Washington, D. C.

Lincoln College of Law
Bakersfield, Cal.

New courses are being of

Southwestern University School of Law Los Angeles, Cal. Judge Elliott Craig, presiding judge of the superior court, will teach Criminal Law this year. Other additions to the faculty are: W. The Georgetown University Sumner Holbrook, Jr., who Law School Senior Debating will teach Bailments; Lee R. Society has perfected its orTaylor, who will teach Cali- ganization with the election fornia Practice; Marion P. of officers for the coming Betty, who will teach Real year. The university has anProperty; and Harry P. Am- nounced that the following stutz, who will teach Part- men will head the organizanership. tion: President, W. A. Roberts of Massachusetts; vicepresident, C. D. Hogan; secretary, B. P. Harrison; treas- John B. Stetson University urer, E. J. Dwyer; parliamentarian, A. C. Guilfoyle.

The enrollment at the school this vear is expected to exceed 500. The school is entering athletics more this year than ever and has put its first football team into the Elaborate plans for the infield. Coach Dewey Harper ter-class debates have been is enthusiastic for his squad made and arrangements for and two preliminary games contests with other local have been played thus far. schools are being made.

fered in Torts, Agency, and
Sales. Elementary Law is
being taught under a new sys-
tem in which no books are
used. This course includes
constitutional history of Eng-
land and America and is also
a memory training course.
Wonderful results have been
obtained by this new method.

College of Law DeLand, Fla. Professors J. A. Carpenter and Jennis W. Futch have been added to the faculty this vear. Professor Anthony W. Bates has left.

Marquette Law School

Milwaukee, Wis.
Willard A. Bowman, LL.
B., 1924, has been appointed
librarian to take the place of
Frank P. Heil, who resigned.

Professor Harker's collec-
tion of cases has been adopted
for use in the class of Com-
mon-Law Pleading.

Catholic University of America School of Law Washington, D. C. William J. O'Keefe, A.B., LL.B., formerly chief auditor in the Income Tax Division of the Internal Revenue Department, joined the faculty, succeeeding John J. Hagerty, A.B., LL.B., who resigned.

Harvard University Law
School

Cambridge, Mass.

Prof. Eugene Wambaugh, professor of law since 1892, and Langdell professor of law since 1903, has resigned and has been appointed Langdell professor of law emeritus.

Prof. Francis Hermann Bohlen, LL.B., who has been Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania since 1902, Prof. Thomas Reed Powell, Ph.D., LL.B., Professor of Law at Columbia, and Prof. Edmund Morris Morgan, A.M., LL.B., Professor of Law at Yale, have been added to the Law School Faculty.

Assistant Professor Calvert Magruder, Assistant Professor since 1920, has been appointed Professor of Law.

Mr. James Bradley Thayer, A.B., LL.B., S.J.D., has been appointed Instructor in Comparative Law, and Mr. Robert Guthrie Page, A. B., LL.B., has been appointed Instructor in Law.

Mr. Guy Harold Holliday, A.B., LL.B., has been appointed Secretary of the Law School, succeeding Richard Ames, who was Secretary of the School since 1909, resigned.

Mr. Charles Shirley Potts, A.M., LL.B., has been awarded the Ezra Ripley Thayer Teaching Fellowship.

Thirteen hundred and nineteen students have enrolled in the Law School for the Academic year 1925-1926. Of these 29 are taking graduate law courses leading to the degree of LL.M. and S.J.D.

Professor Joseph Warren, of the Harvard Law School, was appointed acting dean of the Law School to serve from October 26 to January 1 next. For that period he will replace Dean Roscoe Pound, who has been given leave of absence to act as the American member of the British-American Board of Arbitration.

University of Louisville Law
School

Louisville, Ky. Bernard B. Bailey, A.B., A.M., J.D., has obtained a leave of absence for one year. Louis D. Sovitt, A.B., A.M., J.D., and T. M. Galpin, A.B., A.M., LL.B., will conduct the classes of Mr. Bailey for the rest of the year.

The "Law Club," an organization of all students in the school of law, whose mectings are a monthly affair at which, after an informal dinner at a down-town hotel, an address is delivered by some well-known practitioner on a subject which he thinks should be of interest to students, changed its name at last meeting to "The C. B. Seymour Law Club" in honor of the late Judge Seymour, who for thirty-five years was an instructor in the school.

News of the Schools

(Continued from page 5.)

Indiana University School of Law

Bloomington, Ind. Charles M. Hepburn, professor of law since 1903, and dean since 1918, has been made research professor of law. Paul V. McNutt, professor of law since 1919, succeeds him as dean. Paul Lombard Sayre, A.B., Harvard, J.D.. University of Chicago, and S.J.D., Harvard, has been appointed associate professor of law. Professor Merrill I. Schnelby, on leave of absence for the year 1925-1926, is giving the course on Persons and Wills in the Yale University Law School.

riculum.

A course on Administrative Law given by Professor Sayre has been added to the curMiss Rowena U. Compton, LL.B., Washington College of Law, Law Librarian Internal Revenue Office, Washington, D. C., has been appointed law librarian. The prelaw enrollment for 1925-1926 is twice as large as the enrollment last year. The number of students in the law school is practically the same. University of Alabama

Tuscaloosa, Ala.

No changes have been made in the faculty for this year, Dean Farrah being in his fourteenth year of service, Professor Masters, assistant Professors Rollison and Livingston in their fourth year, and associate Professor Christian in his second year. No new courses are being offered. The present new curriculum is working very nicely.

THE LAW STUDENT

DICKINSON SCHOOL OF LAW CARLISLE, PA.

Benton College of Law

January 1, 1926

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Cornell College of Law

Ithaca, N. Y.

Dean George Gleason Bogert is on leave of absence for the coming year. He is teaching at the University of Chicago Law School. During his absence Professor Charles Kellogg Burdick is acting dean. As sistant Professor Herbert D. Laube will take

St. Louis, Mo. Judge Vital W. Garesche of the law faculty died on the 14th of April, 1925. Judge Garesche taught the subject of Constitutional Law in this school for many years. He was a graduate of the college, class of 1900. Mr. John C. Vogel, A.B., LL.B., has been appointed to succeed him. charge of Dean Bogert's A course on Legal Biblio- teaching work during the graphy has been prescribed year. Mr. Laube has the deas a required subject this grees, A.B., University of session. The subject will be Wisconsin; A.M., University taught by Judge Frank I. of Michigan; LL.B., ColumLandwehr in the fourth year bia Law School; and S.J.D., to a class of thirty-three Harvard University. He has students. been te..ching for the past year at the Law School of St. Louis University.

The enrollment in the law
department for the session
1925-1926 is as follows: First
36 students, fourth year, 33
33
year,
students, second
students; special students, 3,
year, 22 students, third year,
collegiate department, 67 stu-
postgraduate, 7 students, and

Dickinson College, situated at Carlisle, Pa., was founded
in 1783, and is one of the twelve oldest colleges in the United
States. In 1834 the college provided for instruction in law.
With some intermission, law instruction continued to be
sumption of legal instruction. A charter was secured and
imparted until 1882. In 1890 the college authorized the re-
in 1890 the first class under this arrangement was received.dents.
William Trickett, LL.D., was, as he still is, the dean. The
courses at first were few. As the years have gone on, the
curriculum has been steadily broadened, and has been for
more advanced schools. Its faculty numbers eight professors.
some years as comprehensive and thorough as that of the
Its graduates have acquired influence. Perhaps a dozen have
been in the legislature; as many have been district attorneys;
seven or eight have been and are judges for the term of ten
years in the Courts of Common Pleas or Orphans' Courts.
Two of the seven members of the Supreme Court of the
State of Pennsylvania are graduates of the Dickinson School
of Law. The students enrolled the year just closed numbered
309. At the late commencement 64 were graduated.

Milwaukee College of Law This new school about November 1st had an enrollment of 38 students. It was formed because

University of Porto Rico Col

lege of Law

brating the thirtieth year of
the college was held at the
The annual banquet cele-
Lindell Blvds., on the eve-
Buckingham Hotel, Pine and
ning of December 12th.

chology, and Public Speaking
The college will again offer
courses in Sociology, Psy-
the
on Saturday afternoons in
present year. These
courses proved popular in the
two previous sessions of 1923-
1924 and 1924-1925.

University of North Carolina
Law School

the autumn of 1925, at CorMaître Pierre Le Paulle of nell University, on the Jacob deliver a course of lectures in the bar of Paris, France, will Paulle will compare and conH. Schiff Foundation. M. Le and the Civil Law system of Continental Europe in such ican Common Law system trast the English and Amerobligation, tort liability, famfields as those of contractual ing of the University until the and property rights. ily relations and inheritance, course will run from the openThe Christmas recess. The lectures will be given three times a week. The College of Law will give two hours credit for the course as an elective. The course is open to all students in the University.

Due to the new requirement of a prelegal course the thirdM. Le Paulle holds a French Chapel Hill, N. C. Marquette School and fourth-year classes are doctorate in law, and has of Law did not have a first- the only ones running this versity of North Carolina has Harvard. The Law School of the Uni- taken the S. J. D. degree at year night law school. Dean year. As a result the faculty enrolled, for the year 1925- struction at Harvard, and is He has given inMichael Levin states that the has been reduced as follows: 1926, 84 students. This regis- also a lecturer on English necessity for the school has Rafael Martinez Alvarez, tration falls somewhat short and American law in the been demonstrated now that LL.M., dean, Professor Juan of the number enrolled last Paris Faculty of Law. M. Le it has been organized and B. Soto, Professor Jacinte year. The reduction seems to Paulle, therefore, has a thorbeen holding classes. The Texidar, and Professor Man- be the result of higher en- ough knowledge of both the faculty now comprises: uel Benitez Flores, thus re- trance ducing the number from rigid exclusion of students tems. requirements. more Common and Civil Law sysHon. August E. Braun, seven to four. There is a who did poor work last year, The Law Journal is to be Judge Civil Court, Judge- total enrollment in these two and the growing tendency of published this year in collab-elect Circuit Court of Mill- classes of 63. oration with the State Bar waukee County; Charles D. A.B. work before entering the students to complete their Association of Alabama. law school. The increased requirements

The enrollment this year is slightly cut by entrance requirements, about 140 students being in regular professional work.

Work on a new building for the law school will no doubt be commenced within a year.

Edward W. Faith, a prominent attorney of Mobile, Ala., addressed the law school on

Ashley of Van Dyke, Van Dyke & Hauxhurst, B. A.. Wisconsin, LL.B., Harvard, student of law and history at Oxford, England; Andrew Brunhardt, Assistant City Attorney, Ph. B., J. D., University of Chicago; A. George Bouchard, B. A., LL. B., Univery interesting contest among the senior law stu- versity of Michigan; Clifford dents on closing a real estate E. McDonald, B. A., Columbia deal. Mr. Faith offers prizes University, LL.B., Marto the three giving best solu-quette; Carl Muskat of Shaw.

October 12th. He instituted

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New Jersey Law School Newark, N. J. Professor Lewis Tyree of sity Law School joined the Washington and Lee Univerfaculty of New Jersey Law School this September. Professor Tyree is preparing a case book on Contracts which The only change on the will be published by the law the addition of Mr. R. A. school this year. The school teaching staff this year is school press and used in the McPheeters, A.M., Westmin- press is also publishing a case sity of Missouri, who is teach- Alison Reppy of the faculty ster College, LL.B., Univer- book on Wills by Professor This provision for handling in the second semester. I. ing the course in Evidence. which will be ready for use the course in Evidence was made largely to lighten the McIntosh, who is engaging in teaching of Professor A. C. legal research.

A special class on cases on
Mortgages is being given by
Mr. Amos Thomas.
Stauffer taught this subject
Judge
Muskat & Sullivan, LL.B., before. Mr. Lawrence
George Washington Uni- Shaw will have the class in
versity, formerly assistant Agency this year.
district attorney; Arthur
Rockow, LL.B.,
George Washington Univer-
LL.M.,
sity, regional manager of the
United States Veterans' Bu-
reau; Malcolm K. Whyte of
Lines, Spooner & Quarles, B.
A., LL. B., University of Wis-
consin; Leo A. Wolfsohn, B.
S., University of Missouri;
and Dean Michael Levin, LI.
B., George Washington Uni-
versity.

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GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY
WASHINGTON, D. C.

This is the new law school building, Stockton Hall, of George Washington University, Washington, D. C. It is on 20th Street between G and H, just three squares west of the White House and State War and Navy Building. It is a four-story structure of colonial design. It contains ten classrooms and a library with a capacity of over 40,000 volumes, and offices for ten professors. Its maximum capacity is approximately 1,300 students. It is unit No. 2 of the projected University quadrangle which will surround the square between 20th and 21st Streets and G and H. It has been named Stockton Hall in memory of the late Rear-Admiral Charles H. Stockton, president of the University from 1910 to 1918.

Drake University Law School
Des Moines, Iowa
Professor Morton Hend-
rick is on leave of absence.

George Washington Univer-
sity Law School
Washington, D. C.
Dedication of the new law
building, Stockton Hall, took
place Saturday, November
14th. The dedicatory address
was given by Dean Roscoe
Pound of the Harvard Law
School. Short addresses were

University of Minnesota Law
School
Minneapolis, Minn.
The registration in the Uni-
versity of Minnesota Law
School is 300, a small increase
over the preceding year.

For the first time in eight years, there have been no resignations of the full-time members of the faculty. Professor Wilbur H. Cherry, who has been on part time, has given up practice and will devote his entire time to the work of the Law School. He will teach Practice and Evidence.

made by Capt. Edward Staf-
ford, '14, president of the Co-
lumbian-George Washington
Law School Association, Col.
Walter C. Clephane of the
faculty, Dean William C. Van
Vleck of the faculty, Mr.
John Bell Larner, chairman
of the board of trustees of
A course in Jurisprudence
the university, and President
William Mather Lewis of the has been added to the curri-
an elective in the
university, who also presided. culum as
The dedicatory exercises senior year. Short courses
were held at five o'clock in in the subject have been
the university gymnasium. given during the last two
At one o'clock a luncheon summer sessions. Many of
was tendered to delegates the students who took them
and guests, who were also recommended that the course
given a ride around the city. be offered during the regular
Professor
At nine o'clock a reception academic year.
was held and the building in- Henry Rottschaefer will have
spected.
charge of the course.

Professor Clarence M. Up- For the last three years,
degraff has returned after a the law school has required
year at the Harvard Law honor points in prelegal
The
School from which he re- work for admission.
ceived last June the degree candidate must have obtained
of S.J.D. During his year of an average one letter grade
study at the law school he above that required for pass-
was an Ezra Ripley Thayer ing in the college in which
teaching fellow. He is in he did his prelegal work.
charge of most of the work in Of the students who enter
Property, but will also give the College of Science,
course in the History of Literature and the Arts of
| Common Law, second semes- the University of Minnesota,
A new appointment to less than one third maintain
the faculty is that of Associ- the average required to enter
ate Professor Basil H. Pol- the law school. The honor
litt, who is a graduate of the point requirement has greatly
law school and for the past improved the quality of the
three years has been engaged entering classes. As a result,
in the practice of law in the there is less retardation of the
city of New York. He will work in the law classes and
a smaller percentage of fail-
ures at the end of the first

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ter.

Y. M. C. A. College Law Chicago Kent College of Law teach courses in Sales, Agen

School

Washington, D. C.

cy, Common Law Actions,
and one section of Contracts. year.

Upon the resignation of The school still requires
Mr. Joseph A. Jordan, secre- only two years of college
tary of the law school, Miss work for admission, but
Helen Newman, a recent nearly 60% of the entering
graduate of the school, was class this year have a degree
appointed secretary.
or at least three years of col-
work. The number

Chicago, Ill. Dean Burke states that Dr. Bates M. Stovall has re- there is a considerable call in Judge Charles Hutchinson signed from the law school. Chicago for young men at has been appointed to fill the William Olin Burtner, Esq., tending the law school (which vacancy left by the death of M.A., Washington and Lee holds in late afternoon and William H. McHenry. Pro- University; LL.B., Ibid; evening) to act as clerks in fessor McHenry had taught LL.M., George Washington law offices during the day, the in this school continuously University; professor at pay being $15 a week for the A new library, called the lege for twenty-nine years up to Washington and Lee Univer- first six months, then increas Maury Memorial Library, is making the larger preparathe time of his death. Two sity in 1918-1921, will teach ing to $20 a week and after being installed and equipped tion has grown rapidly. It men have been added to the the subject of Sales. Joseph wards to $25 and possibly from a fund raised by former was only 17% in 1921-1922.

faculty with the title "instructor of law." They are S. Mason Ladd, A.B., Grinnell. College, LL.B., State University

Bruce, LL.M., Georgetown more. This practically pro-
University, will teach a course vides for the living expenses
in Mortgages and Suretyships, while taking the law course.
assistant U. S. attorney for
A series of elimination de-

St. Mary's College of Law

Oakland, Cal.

students and friends of Judge
William Alexander Maury,
who was a professor in the
law school for nearly thirty There has been a change of
years. The library has been deans due to the death of our
late dean, Hon. Frank M. Sil-
stacks and modern reading va. The new dean, Hon.
room equipment and there Thomas J. Lennon, is a grad-
will be accommodations for uate of the college and is a
over thirty thousand volumes. justice of the Supreme Court
of California.

of Iowa, a member of Phi the District of Columbia. bating contests, calculated to newly equipped with steel

Beta Kappa and the order of the Coif, honor fraternities, who has practiced law for two years and was at one time debate coach at Grinnell College, and Paul Hubert Williams, A.B., State University of Iowa, L.B., Drake University, and J.S.D., Yale University.

The trustees allowed the school a budget larger than usual for the improvement of the law library, one of the large items of which was for rebinding, and all books that needed it have been rebound.

Charles E. Wainwright, Esq.,
LL.B., LL.M., George Wash-
ington University, will teach
the subject of Bailments and
Carriers. Mr. Wainwright is

a member of the bar and
practices law in the District
of Columbia.

The enrollment of the
school numbers about 100

uncover the best debating
talent among the student
body, have been held. As a

result of these contests a se-
been selected and the law col-
lect group of debaters have
lege is now in the debating
field prepared to accept chal-
lenges from any college de-
siring to meet them in an in-
The accountancy tercollegiate debate and will
law course seems to be very be pleased to entertain any
popular. A large number of challenges which may be
books will be added to the forthcoming. Address all re-
already large library this plies to Coach of Debate in
year.
care of the college.

students.

University of Santa Clara

New courses are being ofInstitute of Law fered in Partnerships and CorSanta Clara, Cal. porations, Equity JurispruThe law faculty consists of dence, Wills and Administraand Common-Law the following: Dean C. C. tions, Sales, in the second Coolidge, N. Bowden, Faber year. Johnston, Al Newlin and Pleading, in the first year. Ronald Stewart. W. Ward Mr. Gerald P. Martin takes Sullivan, Allen P. Lindsay the place of Mr. Ed. McInnis and Edward M. Fellows have as secretary of the law been added to the faculty this school.

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COURSE IN CIVIL LAW

Beginning with the first week in January, 1926, the National University Law School will offer a triweekly course in the modern civil law, designed to include the law actually in force in the leading countries of Continental Europe, in all of the western hemisphere south of the Rio Grande (besides Louisiana and Quebec), in South Africa and other countries, of the "dark continent," and in Japan, the Philippines and other Asiatic lands. link which connects the legal systems of those widely separated regions, and makes it both possible and logical to study them together, is the fact that they are all derived, to a greater or lesser extent, from the law of Rome; just as all common-law countries derive their basic legal principles from the law of England.

The

But this course is to be, in no sense, historical. It will deal with Roman law principles only so far as they are embodied in the living law of the countries above mentioned. It is to be a practical course, planned to give the student a working knowledge of the Civil Law as it exists, and is actually applied, today and designed especially for the following classes:

1. Those preparing to practice in any Civil Law jurisdiction.

2. Those intending to practice elsewhere, but desiring to qualify for advising the rapidly growing group of American interests. whose business extends to Civil Law countries.

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An old French edition (A. D. 1575), printed in Latin, of the ancient Corpus-Juris of
Justinian (A. D. 483-565). Compare this five-volume work with the great seventy-
volume modern Corpus-Juris in your law school library as illustrating the enormous
development and expansion of the law in modern times. (See page 12.)

CORPUS JURIS, OLD AND NEW

The Corpus Juris of Justinian (483-565 A. D.) was a restatement and compilation of the existing civil law of Rome in four books. Inasmuch as the civil law is now the basis of the law of the continent of Europe, of the Province of Quebec, the state of Louisiana, of Mexico, and of the Central and South American Republics, as well as of Japan, the enormous influence of Justinian's work on the development of civilization can be realized. The civil law of Rome divides the world with the common law of England and America. The modern American Cor3. Those desiring to supplement strength and broaden pus Juris bears the same relation to the common law that Justinian's Corpus Juris does to the their common-law equipment civil law. The far greater size of the modern (70 volumes) as compared with the ancient Corwith a knowledge of the sys- pus Juris (4 books) is due not only to the very great development of the law in modern times, tem which shares with the but also to the fact that the common law through its emphasis on precedents has become infinitely richer in detail than was the civil law as it left Justinian's hands, or even as it stands today. However, Justinian's work has been of influence even in common law jurisdictions and upon the common law itself, particularly the equity branch.

latter the civilized world of law and to which the common law is much indebted.

4. Those wishing to systematize and synthesize their sporadic legal knowledge by a single course emphasizing fundamentals and aiming to give a bird's-eye view of the whole field. Such a course is rendered necessary by the omission from the regular law courses of Blackstone and other elementary law writers.

The course will be given by the Honorable Charles S. Lobingier, formerly Judge in the Philippines, later U. S. Judge in China, now Chief Attorney in the United States Department of Justice. He has taught Civil Law in various universities, and has written extensively on the subject. being the Civil Law editor of Corpus Juris (author of the title "Modern Civil Law" in 40 Corpus Juris), and recently engaged to assist in revising laws of Cuba.

THUMBNAIL BIOGRAPHIES OF GREAT AMERICAN LAWYERS

James Bradley Thayer (1831-1902)

James Bradley Thayer was born in Haverhill, Massachusetts, January 15th, 1831. He entered Harvard College, graduated in 1852, and completed his course at Harvard Law School in 1856, when he took up the practice of law in Boston. In 1873 he became Royall professor of law at Harvard, which chair he held until 1883, when he was transferred to the chair subsequently known as the Weld professorship. This he held until his death in February of 1902. James Bradley Thayer, in addition to making a notable record as a legal educator, did much original research work in connection with his professorship, writing "Cases on Evidence," published in 1892, "The Origin and Scope of the American Doctrine of Constitutional Law," published in 1893, "Cases on Constitutional Law," published in 1895, "The Development of Trial by Jury," published in 1896, and "A Preliminary Treatise on Evidence at the Common Law," published in 1898. He also published a life of John Marshall and edited an edition of Kent's Commentaries. His works in the field of the history of law were pioneer in character and of great value to legal students.

Move to Establish

Lawyers' Clinics

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A movement to establish a law clinic here for law students and clerks in law offices, through the creation of a post graduate department in the Legal Aid Society, was launched at a luncheon given by the Executive Committee of the society in the Downtown Association's headquarters at 60 Pine Street. District Attorney Joab H. Banton and representatives of leading law firms attended and offered their co-operation.

Mr. Banton declared that the Legal Aid Society, which, through its Voluntary Defender's Committee, furnishes counsel to persons who are unable to pay attorneys for their services, was the "greatest charity in the world."

"The work of this organization," he continued, "is wholly consistent with the drive against crime because, through its investigators, whose reports I have found to be 100 per cent correct, it aids us in separating the from guilty the innocent more readily. I would like to see it augmented until I could have one of its trial attorneys in every prison term court."

The plan for the clinic was introduced by Lloyd N. Scott, attorney for Columbia University. He said he had taken the matter up with officials of the Columbia University Law School and believed they would co-operate. Pointing out the work of the doctors' clinics, Mr. Scott said: "Students, I feel sure, will welcome the plan. They can be of great aid in interviewing defendants, getting the evidence and would be asked also to sit through the trial of the case. This kind of work already is being done in Chicago and elsewhere and I have been informed it has been meeting with great success and encouragement."

William C. Breed of Breed, Abbott & Morgan, attorneys, at 32 Liberty Street, suggested that young men in the offices of various law firms here be used by the Legal Aid Society in this work. He believed that at least twenty law firms each would furnish the society with one such

man.

It was decided that resolutions should be drawn up for presentation to the next meeting of the Legal Aid Society providing for the creation of the law clinic and post-graduate department. It was said also that the society, in order to carry out its program. would require approximately $35,000, but there was no request for the money. The consensus was that the idea was so progressive and the work in such a good cause that financial support would not be lacking.

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