will give a course in Administrative Law and a course in Bankruptcy, and Professor Manley O. Hudson, of the University of Missouri Law School, will give a course in Property. The Boston University Law School has a full three-year course; but members of the Bar and college graduates whose work has included the equivalent of one year of legal study may complete the work of this school in two years, if they obtain an average rank ten per cent. higher than that required for graduation in ordinary cases. A few months ago the Colorado School of Law received a gift by will of $75,000 from Mrs. Charles Inglis Thomson, late of Kansas City, Missouri, widow of Charles Inglis Thomson, formerly Presiding Judge of the Colorado Court of Appeals. The gift is intended to found a professorship of law in the Colorado School of Law, to be known as the Charles Inglis Thomson Professorship, and will be available in perhaps a year, being charged upon some very valuable property in the city of Kansas City, Missouri. No restrictions are placed upon the manner of its use, but the gift is, as intimated, to found a general law professorship, as a memorial to Judge Thomson, in the discretion of the Board of Regents of the University. This gift, taken in connection with the gift some three years previously of $55,000 by former Senator Guggenheim of Colorado to the University authorities to erect a building for the use of the Law School, and which the Law School is at present occupying, together with the gift of some $350,000 by Andrew J. Macky of Boulder, Colorado, for an auditorium for general University purposes, is evidence of the liberality of Colorado citizens and the esteem in which its State University is held. The University of North Dakota School of Law has begun the publication of a series of departmental bulletins, in which will be discussed such phases of the law of North Dakota, and of other states having the Field Code, as appear to be of exceptional interest to the lawyers of the state. The plan of the bulletin is to have a leading article by some member of the law school faculty or some member of the bench and bar of the state, subsidiary articles and notes on recent decisions prepared by members of the student board of editors, with a department of law school and alumni notes under the charge of the dean. R. W. Cooley has general editorial charge of the bulletin. The intention is to issue the bulletin quarterly, and it will be sent free of charge to all alumni of the school and to members of the North Dakota Bar who desire it. The first number appeared in March. L. E. Birdzell, who has been on leave of absence for two years, serving as chairman of the North Dakota Tax Commission, will return to his duties at the law school with the opening of the school year in September. Joseph L. Lewinsohn, a member of the faculty for the last two years, has resigned, and will re-enter the practice of law at Los Angeles, California. To the great regret of the Indiana law faculty, Professor Archibald H. Throckmorton has accepted a call from the Law School of Western Reserve University, and will leave at the close of the current year. Professor Throckmorton's subjects at Indiana have been Negotiable Instruments, Trusts, Guaranty and Suretyship, Partnership, and Public Service Companies. His successor at Indiana has not yet been appointed. Henry Craig Jones has resigned from the faculty of George Washington University Law School to accept the Deanship of the Law School of the State University of West Virginia, his resignation to take effect at the end of the present year. He has rendered valued services and his departure is regretted. It is expected that two new men will be added to the law faculty for next year, giving their full time. Mr. Warren F. Pillsbury, of the University of California, has been recently added to the law faculty of the University of Illinois. He is teaching the subject of Real Property. R. A. Daly, of Chicago, who is well known throughout the law school world as an authority on Legal Bibliography, has completed a successful tour of some forty law schools in which he has given special instruction to the senior students on the Use of Law Books and How to Find the Law. Much benefit has been derived by undergraduate students from Mr. Daly's instructions in the different law schools. Following are some of the universities and law schools in which Mr. Daly gave instruction this season: University of Nebraska; University of Kansas; University of Texas; Kansas City Law School; University of Missouri; St. Louis Institute of Law; Western Reserve University; Washington and Lee University; National University; Georgetown University; University of Virginia; University of Pittsburg; Cleveland Law School; Washington University; Northwestern University; University of Oklahoma; Univer The Summer Quarter of the University of Chicago Law School, in 1914, will continue from June 15 to August 28, the first term ending July 22. Courses will be given in Torts, Agency, Persons, Mining and Irrigation, Equity, Suretyship, Bills and Notes, Insurance, and Administrative Law and Offcers. The course of instruction will be carried on by Professors Harry A. Bigelow, Walter W. Cook, Ernst Freund, and Dean James Parker Hall of the regular faculty, and by Professor Roscoe Pound of the Harvard Law School, Dean William R. Vance of the University of Minnesota Law School, Professor William U. Moore of the University of Wisconsin Law School, and Professor Chas. A. Huston of the Stanford University Law School. The handsome new Law Building at the University of Oklahoma has been formally christened "Monnet Hall," in honor of Dean Julian C. Monnet, under whose direction the structure was planned and erected. Its dedication brought to Norman, Oklahoma, on March 4, visitors from all parts of the state, and a distinguished company of state officials and representatives of the bench and bar of Oklahoma. "To Dean Monnet," says the Oklahoma University News-Letter of March 5, "honors were paid without stint. He was praised as the directing force of a school where progress is almost unparalleled in educational history, as the guiding genius in the erection of the building which now houses that school, and as the man in whom all confidence is reposed as to the future growth and advancement of the School of Law." The College of Law of the University of Southern California is planning a celebration of the tenth anniversary of its affiliation with the University. The celebration will be one of the events of Commencement week in June and will take the form of a home-coming of the alumni. The school is closing its tenth year with an enrollment of 606; it closed its first year with an enrollment of 610. Charles J. Hobart, of Roscoe, Illinois, has been appointed to the faculty of Southwestern University Law School, Los Angeles, California. Mr. Hobart is a graduate of Columbia University Law School. The California Law Review, published by the faculty and students of the School of Jurisprudence of the University of California, has enjoyed a prosperous year. The article by the editor, Professor McMurray, entitled "Some Tendencies in Constitution Making," has attracted a great deal of attention throughout the United States. After September 1, 1914, candidates for a degree in the Cincinnati Law School will be required, at the time of entering the Law School, to present proof of the satisfactory completion of one year's work or its equivalent in a College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. There will be several changes next year in the faculty of the School of Jurisprudence of the University of California. Professor Orrin K. McMurray will spend his sabbatical year in Germany, studying the Continental systems of law and the European methods of law teaching. Professor George H. Boke will exchange for a year with Professor John Wurts of the Yale Law School. Professor Wurts will give the courses in Property and Conflict of Laws which have been given by Professor McMurray. Professor Barry Gilbert of the Iowa State University Law School has been called to a professorship in this school. During the next year, he will give the courses in Contracts, Equity, Trusts, and Damages. Mr. William E. Colby, lecturer on Mining Law, will give a course on Water Law during the second term. Dr. John U. Calkins, Jr., has been appointed lecturer in Commercial Law. The Indiana University Law School has added to its law library a well-equipped statute law book room, for the comparative study of the legislation of the United States and England. It is hoped within a year to add the statutes of the English colonies. "THE DIPLOMA PRIVILEGE." "Does the diploma of your school entitle a resident holder to admission to the Bar without examination by the State Board of Bar Examiners?" This question, submitted to various law schools, has brought some interesting an swers. The Law School of the University of Virginia, established by Thomas Jefferson, with all the privileges which he thought fitting to a state law school, answers with an exclamatory "No!" It was a tradition at the University of Virginia, in the days of John B. Minor, that the Legislature had offered the law school a full diploma privilege, but that the faculty had declined it. The Cincinnati Law School, founded in 1833, answers: "No. Our charter seems to permit this [the diploma privilege], but the rule of the Supreme Court does not, and we do not want it or ask it." The Law School of the University of Pennsylvania answers: "No. We especially requested that it should not." The University of Colorado School of Law answers: "No. A bill introduced for the purpose [of granting the diploma privilege] was opposed by the school and defeated." The University of Michigan answers: "Yes; but after next year it will not. Formerly graduates of the University of Michigan Department of Law and of the Detroit College of Law were admitted to the Bar without examination. At the request of the Department of Law of the University of Michigan, this exemption of law school graduates has been abolished, and all applicants for admission to the Bar, except those who have practiced for three years in other states, are required to take the Bar examinations." In some states, as in California and Minnesota, the State University Law School shares the diploma privilege with one or more other law schools in the state, but in at least two great states of the Union, Texas and Wisconsin, the State University Law School enjoys an exclusive diploma privilege. On the other hand, in a number of leading states, as Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Ohio, Illinois, and Colorado, no law school has a diploma privilege. Answers to Questions on Legal Bibliography and the Use of Law Books By R. A. DALY Of the Chicago, Illinois, Bar. [Thirty Questions on Legal Bibliography and the Use of Law Books, 1. Table of cases cited in Labatt's Master and Servant, 2d Ed., refers to this case on page 3386, where a text treatment is found on the doctrine named. The same method shows a text treatment in Bailey's Personal Injuries (2d Ed.) page 1472. 2. (a) 1888. (b) 1888. 3. (a) 1869. (b) 1911. 4. A system of law reporting conducted by the West Publishing Company, covering every current case from the courts of last resort in this country, and some others (notably the cases of the New York Supplement), and annotating every point in every case, by use of the Key-Number, to all other cases on the point, past, present, and future, as long as the system continues. It began with the Northwestern Reporter in 1879, and since the advent of the Southern and Southeastern Reporters in 1887 has reported every case from the courts of last resort in this country. The use of the Key-Number as a method of annotation in the system became universal in 1908. 5. In the Federal Cases. 6. All reported cases of Federal Courts below the U. S. Supreme Court from 1880 to the present time. 7. In the Federal Reporter. 8. The National Reporter System. 9. The latest advance sheet of the National Reporters. It is connected up with all other cases on the same point by the Key-Number placed at every point. 10. By the Table of Cases in the Decennial edition of the American Digest. 11. The Table of Cases in the Decennial edition of the American Digest shows this case to be reported in 64 N. J. Law, 240, 45 A. 692, 49 L. R. A. 572, 81 Am. St. Rep. 467. 12. Adams v. Batchelder, 173 Mass. 258, is also reported in 53 N. E. 824. Answered by use of Blue Book. 13. We find this case in vol. 7 K. N. S., and locate the case in 89 N. E. 169. The case is not reported in the state report. 14. A party established a quarry upon his property and moved away, leasing the property to another, who continued the business. Later on a third party moved into the neighborhood and brought action to enjoin the business as a nuisance, on account of the noise incident to the blasting and the scattering of the rocks upon the surrounding property. The original owner and tenant were joined as parties to the action. This case is found in vol. 12 K. N. S. Gathering the several points involved in the case, as shown in the table of cases digested in this volume, the above facts are disclosed. 15. By looking for a small number in brackets in the text of the opinion corresponding with the number of the syllabus covering the point. Full Name of Reporter. Harris (Thomas). Hill & Denio. Hill (Nicholas)." Woodbury & Minot. Woodbury (Chas. L.). 18. The American Digest, Table of Abbreviations and List of Reports. The New Edition of Cooley's Brief Making and Use of Law Books also answers the question. 19. James P. Metcalfe was a reporter in Kentucky, and Theon Metcalf in Massachusetts. (Note final "e" in Metcalfe in Ky.) The correct citation then would be 1 Metc. (Ky.) 1, or 1 Metc. (Mass.) 1. 20. The L. R. A. as Authorities is an elaborated Citator of cases in the L. R. A., originally published in separate volumes for the set. The Extra Annotated Edition segregates the citations for each volume and publishes them in the back of the volume. In some instances later citations are given. 21. No. 22. No. 23. The Key-Number. 24. The date of the cases in the last Annual Annotation. 25. The advance sheets of the National Reporter System. 26. By Words and Phrases Judicially Defined (the eight-volume work of that name) and the Cross-Reference head of that title in the American Digest. 27. The topic and paragraph or section number under which a given proposition of law is placed in the American Digest. It begins with the Decennial edition and applies to subsequent volumes of the system and the National Reporters. Under each Key-Number in the digests named is to be found the corresponding paragraph or section of the Century edition. 28. The salient word or phrase in a given statement of facts that best describes the real question in controversy, generally descriptive of the subject-matter, or parties, or cause of action, or object of action, or point in controversy arising in the trial other than the cause of action. 29. No. The Descriptive Word here, descriptive of the point in controversy, is Intoxication. This word in the Descriptive-Word Index directs to the topics and sections for the law (Key-Numbers), where the question has arisen under varying circumstances. 30. The Decennial edition, under the Key-Numbers given, will give all the cases covered by that edition. The Cumulative Table of Key-Number Sections will give the volumes of the Key-Number Series containing cases on the question, and the latest bound volumes and advance sheets of the National Reporters, by the Key-Numbers in the Indexes therein, will exhaust the cases to the very last published decision. The corresponding Century section numbers, as disclosed under every section of the Decennial and Key-Number Digests, will gather the earliest cases. |