tee, dean.—Sixteen instructors; 242 students, 20 having degree in letters or science; 56 graduates; 36 weeks in school year.

Course of study: First year.-Contracts, torts, criminal law and procedure, real property, equity jurisdiction and procedure, domestic relations, suretyship and mortgage, partnership, common law and code pleading, evidence.

Second year.-Contracts, corporations, fire and life insurance, wills and administration, taxation, international law, conflict of laws, admiralty laws, medical jurisprudence, and practice of United States courts.

Third year.—For the benefit of those who desire further instruction a third-year course has been established. It is concerned with equity, civil and criminal procedure, and such other branches as may be desired. Special attention, however, is given to Minnesota law and practice, general jurisprudence, international and constitutional law, constitutional history of the United States.

Methods of instruction.-The method of instruction is not confined either to lectures or to recitations, but a combination of both is adopted. Reports are used to familiarize the student with the leading cases upon the various subjects in which he receives instruction. A moot court is organized at the beginning of each year and continued during the three terms. There is also a system of moot courts corresponding to the justice, the district, and the supreme courts of Minnesota.

37. Department of Law of the University of the City of New York, New York City. Austin Abbott, dean. Ten instructors, 342 students, 35 having degree in letters or science, 91 graduates, 32 weeks in school year.

Course of study: First year.-Elementary law, Roman law, persons, property, elements of torts, corporations, criminal law, 3:45 to 4:30 p. m.; contracts and relations of contracting parties, corporations, 4:30 to 5:15 p. m.; negotiable paper, sales, torts, and civil remedies, 5:15 to 6 p. m.

Second year.-Principles of pleading, equity jurisprudence, evidence, short illustrative exposition of applied law, 3:45 to 5:15 p. m.; real property, 5:15 to 6 p. m.; wills and administration.

Methods of instruction.-The instruction is by lectures by the regular professors and special lectures and by the study of text-books, cases, and statutes (select titles), recitations, moot courts, etc.

38. Law School of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, N. C. John Manning, professor. Three instructors, 55 students, 20 having degree in letters or science, 7 graduates, 40 weeks in school year.

Course of study: First year.- Blackstone's Commentaries, Washburn's Real Property, Schouler's Executors, Stephen's Pleading, Chitty's Pleading, Adams's or Bispham's Equity, Vol. 1 of Greenleaf's Evidence, Smith's Contracts, Addison or Bigelow's Torts, Constitution of the United States and of North Carolina, Code of North Carolina, particularly the Code of Civil Procedure. For the degree course: Pollock's Contracts, Pierce's American Railroad Law, Angell and Ames's or Dillon's Corporation, Pomeroy's Equity Jurisprudence, Cooley's Constitutional Limitations, Wharton's Criminal Law, Best's Principles of Evidence, Cooley's Taxation, May's Insurance. Second year. (The course for a degree may be completed in one year, but ordinarily requires two years.)

Remarks. The plan of study comprises, first, the course prescribed for applicants for license by the Supreme Court of the State; second, a course of study for those desiring to compete for the degree of Bachelor of Laws. To complete the entire course will ordinarily require two years.

39. School of Law of the University of Oregon, Portland, Oregon. Richard II. Thornton, dean. Four instructors, 55 students, 5 having degree in letters or science, 19 graduates, 30 weeks in school year.

Course of study: First year.-Blackstone's Commentaries, Kent's Commentaries, Parson's Contracts.

Second year.-Gould's Pleading, Stephen's Evidence, Pomeroy's Equity, Cooley's Constitutional Limitations, General Laws of Oregon.

40. Law Department of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa. C. Stuart Patterson, dean. Seven instructors, 176 students, 2 having degree in letters or science, 50 graduates, 29 weeks in school year,

Course of study: First year.-Real property, elementary equity, contracts, torts, pleading.-Books used: Bispham's Equity, Williams's Real Property, Mitchell's Lectures upon Real Estate and Conveyancing in Pennsylvania, Pollock's Contracts, Anson's Contracts, Hare's Contracts, Pollock's Torts, Bigelow's Torts, Ames's Cases, Stephen's Pleading.

Second year.-Real property and conveyancing, partnerships, equity, contracts, evidence. Books used: Stephen's Evidence, Parson's Partnership, in addition to those mentioned under first year.

Third year.-Constitutional law, wills and administration, commercial law, practice and pleading in equity, contracts, criminal law, practice. Books used: Russell's Crime, Stephen's History of the Criminal Law, Story's Constitution, Hare's Constitution, Patterson's Federal Restraints on State Action.

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Admission and methods of instruction.-Examination in high-school studies imposed upon those applicants for admission who are not Bachelors of Arts or of SciThe instruction is given by lectures and by frequent examinations, and the students are required to read leading cases illustrating the subjects of instruction. Moot courts are held once a week, at which questions prepared by the professor are argued.

41. Department of Law of the University of Texas, Austin, Tex.-Two instructors, 76 students, having degree in letters or science, 26 graduates, 32 weeks in school year.

Course of study: First year.-Personal rights, domestic relations, estates in and titles to property, both real and personal; torts, criminal law, contract, sales, agency, pleading, practice and evidence. Books used: Blackstone's Commentaries, Anson's Contract, Tiedeman's Sales, Sayle's and Bassett's Texas Pleading and Practice, Robert's Elements of Texas Pleading, Bishop's Non-Contract Law; Greenleaf's Evidence, Vol. I.

Second year.--Government of the United States and of Texas, with judicial system of cach; international law, constitutional law, equity, suretyship and guaranty, negotiable instruments, partnerships, private corporations, legal ethics. Books used: Revised Statutes of Texas, containing Constitution of United States and of Texas; Kent's Commentaries, vol. I, Peeler's Law and Equity in the United States Courts, Bispham's Equity, Taylor's Private Corporations.

Remarks: The methods of instruction contemplate the use of text-books, with daily examinations and oral explanations, and also contemplate throughout the entire course occasional lectures, supplementing the text-books and developing the peculiar features of Texas jurisprudence. Moots courts are held.

42. Law Department of the University of Virginia, University P. O., Va. John B. Minor, sr., professor.-Three instructors, 134 students, 30 having degree in letters or science, - graduates, 39 weeks in school year.

Course of study: First year.-Minor's Institutes of Common and Statute Law, Vol. 1 of Rights, which relate to the person; Vol. II of Rights, which relate to real property; Minor's Synopsis of Criminal Law, Blackstone's Commentaries. Lectures Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, from 11 a. m. to 12:30 p. m. Books used: Vattel's International Law, with lectures; Lectures on Government; Federalist; Gilmore's Notes on Vattel and the Constitution. Lectures Thursday and Saturday, 12:30 p. m. to 2 p. m.

Second year.-Minor's Institutes; Vol. IV of the Practice of Law in Civil Cases, including pleading; Vol. III of the Rights which relate to Personal Property, Stephen's Pleading. Lectures Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday, from 11 a. m. to 12:30 p. m. Books used: Smith's Mercantile Law, Greenleaf's Evidence, Adams's Equity, with lectures and Lotes. Lectures Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, 12:30 p. m.

Remarks.--The course is intended for two years, but may be completed in one. The department is divided into two schools, known, respectively, as the School of Common and Statute Law and the School of Constitutional and International Law, Mercantile Law, Evidence, and Equity.

43. Law Department of West Virginia University, Morgantown, W. Va. Two instructors, 26 students, 3 having degree in letters or science, 19 graduates, 30 weeks in school year.

Course of study: First year.—Rights of persons and things, Blackstone, international law, common law, pleading, contracts, negotiable instruments, equity pleading, evidence, 14 weeks; constitutional law, international law, Blackstone, first and second books continued and third and fourth books begun, agency, partnership, surety and guaranty, practice in the courts, equity, evidence, 12 weeks; constitutional law continued, Blackstone, third and fourth books continued, real property, bailments, corporations, practice in the courts, insurance, equity.

Books used: Blackstone's Commentaries, Stephen's Pleading, Brooke's Notes on Common Law Pleading and Practice in West Virginia, Williams's Real Property, Federalist and Cooley's Constitutional Law, Woolsey's Introduction to International Law.

Second year: The course as given in preceding paragraph may be spread over 2 years.

Organization and methods of instruction.-In many cases students take two or three branches of the academic course in connection with the studies of the law department. Such students divide the law course into 2 years. The methods of instruction consist of lectures and examinations from approved text-books read in course, the drawing of various legal papers requisite in the ordinance practice of the law, and moot courts.

44. Law Department of the Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tenn. Thomas H. Malone, dean. Four instructors, 37 students, 5 having degree in letters or science, 18 graduates, 40 weeks in school year.

Course of study: First year.-Bishop's Contracts, Schouler's Domestic Relations, Agency, Tyler's Partnership, Heard's Civil Pleading, Lube's Equity Pleading, 18 weeks; Taylor's Corporations, bailment, Cooley's Torts, Washburn's Crimes, Reynolds's Evidence, moot court, 17 weeks.

Second year.-Daniel's Negotiable Instruments, Tiedeman's Real Property, Reynolds's Evidence, moot court, 18 weeks; Bispham's Equity Jurisprudence, Cooley's Constitutional Limitations, Lube's Equity Pleading; admiralty proceedings, moot court. (The students may finish the course as given for two years in one year.)

Remarks. The daily exercises consist of recitations from the text-books, accompanied with rigid oral questioning and full illustrations and lectures on kindred topics. Moot courts are held.

45. School of Law of the Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Va. G. W. C. Lee, dean. Two instructors, 63 students, 2 having degree in letters or science, 24 graduates; 36 weeks in school year.

Course of study: First year.-Junior class: Natural law and international law, 77 hours; Constitutional law, 89 hours; Contracts and carriers, 68 hours; real and personal property, 93 hours; Anson's Contract's, Hutchinson on Carrier's, Tiedeman's Real Property, Blackstone's Commentaries, book 2; printed lectures on real property; Schouler's Personal Property, Vol. 2; Blackstone's Commentaries, book 1, with lectures on natural law; Woolsey's International Law, with lectures; Cooley's Constitutional Law, with lectures; negotiable paper and corporations, 53 hours; equity, domestic relations, and the conflict of laws, 148 hours; torts and crimes, 77 hours; pleading and evidence, 89 hours; Bigelow's Torts; May's Criminal Law; Blackstone's Commentaries, books 3 and 4; Gould's Pleading (Heard's edition); Greenleaf's Evidence, Vol. 1; printed lectures on negotiable paper; printed lectures on corporations; Bispham's Equity; Schouler's Domestic Relations; lectures on

partnership; insurance; shipping and admiralty; printed lectures on the conflict of laws.

Second year. The course may be pursued so that its completion will require 2 years.

Remarks.—The course is so arranged as to render possible its completion in one session of 9 months. Students are advised, however, to devote 2 years to the study of law. The basis of instruction is the study of the text-book, with frequent oral examinations. Lectures are delivered by the professors to supplement the text. Two moot courts are organized.

46. College of Law of Willamette University, Salem, Oregon. William Ramsey, dean. Twelve instructors, 5 students, 1 graduate; 36 weeks in school year.

Course of study: First year.-General commentaries upon municipal law, contracts, real estate, commercial law. Books used: Blackstone's Commentaries, Tiedeman's Real Property, Kent's Commentaries, Parson's Contracts.

Second year.-Equity jurisprudence, torts, criminal law, evidence, pleading, and practice. Books used: Cooley's Torts, Bispham's Equity, Wharton's Criminal Law, Greenleaf's Evidence, Chitty's Pleadings, Vol. 1, Bliss's Code Pleading, Daniel's Negotiable Instruments.

Organization and methods of instruction.-There is an examination for admission. The daily exercises consist of lectures and recitations from standard text-books, the latter being accompanied by oral explanations. Moot courts are held regularly.

47. Law Department of Yale University, New Haven, Conn. Francis Wayland, dean. Two instructors (professors of law), 155 students, 43 graduates; 33 weeks in school year.

Course of study: First year.-English constitutional law, bailments, evidence, international law, elementary law, pleading, evidence, mercantile law, native history, American law, wills (or Roman law), contracts, torts, forensic elocution.

Second year.-Evidence, real property, domestic relations, forensic oratory, criminal law, mercantile law, American constitutional law, public and private corporations, wills (or Roman law), practice, contracts, torts, international law, patents, attachments, judgments and executions, corporate trusts, transfer of monetary securities, insurance, the beginning of practice.

Third year.-[First year of graduate course.] Patents, taxation, railroad law, practice in U. S. courts, admiralty law, sales, municipal corporations, statute law, Federal jurisprudence, international law, mortgages, political science and history, English constitutional history, railway management.

[Second year of graduate course]. Early history of real property, canon law, comparative jurisprudence, code Napoleon, English constitutional law, political and social science, Roman law, economics of transportation, public finance.

Organization and methods of instruction.-The courses of the school are: An undergraduate, a graduate, and two special courses, each of two years, except the first special course, which is of one year. The first and second years of the graduate course have no direct connection. Indeed, the first year of the graduate course is considered as a fitting conclusion to the studies of the undergraduate course. Neither of the special courses is professional. The method of instruction is mainly that of recitation. Hence, although certain subjects are taught by lectures, care is taken that the same topic is covered by recitation work in connection with the wider branches of the law to which they belong. Public moot courts, besides those in the class quiz-clubs, are regularly held, one of the professors presiding. The requirements for admission are that the applicant must be 18 years of age or over, and must have passed an examination in American and English history on the text of the Constitution.

48. College of Law of Illinois Wesleyan University, Bloomington, Ill., Owen T. Reeves, dean. Eight instructors, 44 students, 17 graduates, 36 weeks in school year. Course of study: First year.-Elementary law (Robinson), 26 hours; American law (Walker), 65 hours; torts (Bigelow), 26 hours; civil procedure, 13 hours;

English common law (Blackstone, books 1 and 2), 24 hours; contracts (Benjamin and Parsons), 105 hours; pleading (Stephen and Gould), 42 hours; English common law (Blackstone, books 3 and 4), 18 hours; civil procedure (Moore's Civil Practice), 34 hours.

Second year.-Common law (Kent, Parts I to V), 26 hours; real property (Tiedeman), 50 hours; evidence (Greenleaf and Chase), 34 hours; pleading (Chitty), 50 hours; practice (Illinois Practice Act), 25 hours; common law (Kent, Part V), 24 hours; equity jurisprudence (Bispham), 24 hours; common law (Kent, Part VI), 18 hours; criminal law (Harris), 18 hours; torts (Cooley), 18 hours; equity pleading (Heard), 9 hours; practice (Illinois Chancery Code), 9 hours.

Methods of instruction.-The method adopted is mainly that of daily recitations from text-books, during which the text is illustrated by examples easily comprehended by the student. Moot courts are held throughout the course.

49. Department of Law of the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tenn. Henry H. Ingersoll, dean. Eight instructors, 10 students, 3 having degree in letters or science, 6 graduates, 40 weeks in school year.

Course of study: First year.-Robinson's Elementary Law, May's Criminal Law, Bigelow's Torts, Bishop's Contracts, Schouler's Domestic Relations, Tiedeman's Real Property, Smith's Commercial Law, History of a Law Suit.

Second Year.-Cooley's Constitutional Law, Boone's Corporations, Stephen's Pleading, Greenleaf's Evidence, Vol. 1; Ram's Legal Judgment, Bispham's Equity, Gibson's Suits in Chancery. (The course may be completed in one year by earnest application and sole attention to the law.)

Methods of instruction.-The methods employed are text-book study, with daily recitation and colloquial instruction, weekly moot courts and lectures.

50. Department of Law of the University of South Carolina, Columbia, S. C. Thomas A. Saxon, dean. One instructor, 20 students, 4 graduates, 32 weeks in school year. Course of study: First year.-Organization and jurisdiction of courts of the United States and South Carolina, sources of municipal law, domestic relations, personal property, and title to same, administration, wills, contracts, bailments, bills and notes, principal and agent, corporations, criminal law and herein of torts and nuisance, public and private, evidence. Class meets five times a week during session. Constitution of United States and the Judiciary Acts, Vol. 1; Kent's Commentaries, Constitution of South Carolina, organization of judiciary, acts, etc., bearing on organization of judiciary, Kent's Short Chapters on Domestic Relations, Reeve's Domestic Relations, Kent's Personal Property and Statutes of South Carolina, Blackstone's Commentaries (book 4), May's Criminal Law and South Carolina Criminal Law. Second year.-Pleading and practice, real property, equity jurisprudence, conveyancing, trial of title to lands, maritine law and law of nations, statute law of the State on subjects not read in connection with the text and lectures of the course-deeds, recording, habeas corpus, etc. Class meets five times a week during session.

Boone's Code Pleading, the South Carolina Code, Kent's Commentaries, Vol. 4; Blackstone's Commentaries (selections); Washburn's Real Property, Vol. 2, Adams's Equity, Story's Equity, White and Tudor's Leading Cases in Equity. Martindail's Conveyancing, Sedgwick and Wait's Ejectment.

Methods of instruction.-Instruction is given by lectures and text-books, Moot courts are held once a week.

51. The Dickinson School of Law, Carlisle, Pa. William Trickett, dean. Twelve instructors, 31 students, 7 having degree in letters or science, 13 graduates, 34 weeks in school year.

Course of study not given.

52. School of Law of Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio. Marshall J. Williams, dean. Nineteen instructors, 63 students, 17 graduates, 36 weeks in school year. Course of study: First year.-Elementary law, criminal law, domestic relations, torts, evidence, contracts, common-law pleading.