vii. HONOUR SCHOOL OF JURISPRUDENCE. (i) Statute. [Statt. Tit. VI. Sect. I. C.] 7. Of the Honour School of Jurisprudence. 1. The Examinations in the School of Jurisprudence shall be- 1. A Preliminary Examination. 2. A Final Honour Examination. 2. The subjects of the Preliminary Examination shall be— (1) Either (a) The outlines of English Constitutional and Political History after 1066 A.D., or (b) The outlines of European History from 800 A.D. to 1494 A.D. (2) A portion of the Institutes of Gaius to be specified by the Board of the Faculty. (3) Translations from Latin prose authors not specially offered. (4) Either Logic, or the first book of Bacon's Novum Organum, or a portion of a Greek, French, or German author with translations from other authors in the language of the Book offered. 3. No Candidate shall be allowed to offer any of the same books in which he satisfied the Masters of the Schools either in Stated Subjects or in an Additional Subject, and no Candidate shall be allowed to offer Logic if he satisfied the Masters of the Schools in that subject. 4. The Final Honour Examination in the School of Jurisprudence shall always include— (1) General Jurisprudence; (2) The History of English Law; (3) Such departments of Roman Law, and (if the Board of the Faculty shall think fit) such departments of English Law, as may be specified from time to time by the Board; (4) International Law, or some department of it specified by the Board of the Faculty of Law. This subject is optional, but Candidates who do not offer it cannot be placed in the First Class. 5. No Candidate shall be admitted to examination in the Final Honour School unless he has passed the First Public Examination, or such other Examination or Examinations as, under the provisions of Statt. Tit. VI. Sect. I. cl. 3 and cl. 5, are accepted in his case as statutably equivalent thereto, or has obtained Honours in another Final Honours School. 6. The Examinations in this School shall be under the supervision of the Board of the Faculty of Law. The Board may include in the Examinations, either as necessary or as optional, other subjects which they may deem suitable to be studied in connexion with Jurisprudence; and may, if they shall judge it advisable, require that Candidates who have not been classed in any other School shall take in additional books or subjects, or produce evidence of having been previously examined in such additional books or subjects. The Board may prescribe books or portions of books in any language. 7. Subject to such regulations as the Board may make from time to time, select portions of Historical study, approved by the Board of the Faculty of Modern History, may be substituted by Candidates for portions of Legal study; provided that no Candidate shall be allowed to offer in the School of Jurisprudence any select portion, whether of Legal or Historical study, which he has already offered in the School of Modern History. (ii) Regulations of the Board of the Faculty. (a) PRELIMINARY EXAMINATION. 1. Candidates will have the option of being examined in either (a) the outlines of English Constitutional and Political History after A.D. 1066, or (b) the outlines of European History from A.D. 800 to A.D. 1494. Candidates will not be examined in any particular books, but they are recommended to read for (a) the introductory chapters of Anson's The Law and Custom of the Constitution, and Gardiner and Mullinger's Introduction to English History, Part I; and for (b) Gibbon, Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Milman's edition), Chapters 49 to 70, omitting Chapters 54 and 63. 2. Candidates will be required to offer Gaius, Book i, Book ii §§ 1-97, and Book iii §§ 88-225. They will be required to translate and explain the text of Gaius, so far as prescribed, and to show an adequate knowledge of the subject-matter, as well as such knowledge of the history of Roman Law as is necessary for the understanding of the text. Candidates will not be required to show a knowledge of institutions or rules of law not referred to in Gaius nor necessary for the understanding of the text. *3. The Logic required in this Examination will be the same as that required from Candidates who do not seek Honours in the First Public Examination. +4. The portions of books to be offered by Candidates who do not offer Logic are to be selected from the following list : In GREEK: Plato, Apologia and Meno; or Republic, Books I, II, III; or Aristotle, In GERMAN: Gneist, Englische Verfassungsgeschichte, from § 33 to the end of the book; or Savigny, System des heutigen römischen Rechts, vol. I, omitting chapter iv. In FRENCH :— De Tocqueville, Démocratie en Amérique, vols. I and II [Edition Calmann Lévy, Paris, 1888]; or Fustel de Coulanges, La Cité antique. (6) FINAL HONOUR EXAMINATION. 1. GENERAL JURISPRUDENCE AND THE THEORY OF Legislation. The subject may be studied in such works as the following:Austin, Jurisprudence, Lectures I, V, VI, and the Essay on the Uses of the Study of Jurisprudence. Holland, The Elements of Jurisprudence. Markby, Elements of Law. Bentham, Theory of Legislation, by Dumont. Maine, Ancient Law (Pollock's edition), and Early History of Institutions. Students may also refer to the following works :— Hobbes, Leviathan, the Second Part: Of Commonwealth. Bentham, Principles of Morals and Legislation. Maine, Village Communities; Early Law and Custom. Fustel de Coulanges, La Cité antique. Pollock, Essays in Jurisprudence and Ethics; A First Book of Jurisprudence. Bagehot, Physics and Politics. Salmond, Jurisprudence. * N.B.-No Candidate is allowed to offer Logic if he satisfied the Masters of the Schools in that subject. See the Statute, p. 94. † N.B.-No Candidate is allowed to offer any of the same books in which he satisfied the Masters of the Schools either in Stated Subjects or in an Additional Subject. See the Statute, p. 94. 2. ROMAN LAW. 1. The Institutes of Gaius. The Institutes of the Emperor Justinian. Candidates will be examined neither in the Law of Succession to Freedmen nor in the changes in the Law of Intestate Succession between the close of the Praetorian reforms and Justinian's final scheme in the 118th and 127th Novels. The subject may be studied in Moyle's Justinian and Muirhead's or Poste's Gaius. Reference may also be made to Muirhead, The Institutes of Gaius. Muirhead, Historical Introduction to the Private Law of Rome (edited by Cuq, Les Institutions juridiques des Romains. Puchta, Institutionen. Sohm, The Institutes (translated by Ledlie). Girard, Manuel Élémentaire de Droit Romain. 2. Digest IX. 2, ad legem Aquiliam. The title of the Digest is optional, but Candidates who do not offer it cannot be placed in the First Class. The subject may be studied in Grueber's Lex Aquilia. 3. ENGLISH LAW. (1) The principles of the Law of Real Property. The subject may be studied in— Williams, Principles of the Law of Real Property. Digby, An Introduction to the History of the Law of Real Property. Reference may also be made to— Stephen, Commentaries, Vol. I, Book II, Part I. Blackstone, Commentaries, Book II. Edwards, A Compendium of the Law of Property in Land. Jenks, Modern Land Law. (2) The principles of the Law of Contract. The subject may be studied in Anson, Principles of the English Law of Contract. Pollock, Principles of Contract. Reference may also be made to Finch, A Selection of Cases on the English Law of Contract. (3) The principles of the Law of Torts. Pollock, The Law of Torts. Underhill, A Summary of the Law of Torts. G Reference may also be made to Radcliffe and Miles, Cases illustrating the principles of the Law of Toris. (4). Constitutional Law and Legal History. 1. Constitutional Law shall be taken to include the following topics: The Prerogatives of the Crown. The Constitution and the Privileges of the Houses of Parliament. Ministerial Responsibility. The Droit Administratif. Military and 2. Legal History shall be taken to include the history of the branches of English Law above specified in (1), (2), and (3), as subjects of examination, and the history of the following Courts:The House of Lords; the Privy Council; the Supreme Court of Judicature, together with the courts and jurisdictions which are now merged in it. These subjects may be studied in— Dicey, Introduction to the Study of the Law of the Constitution. Anson, The Law and Custom of the Constitution, Part I, Parliament. Digby, The History of the Law of Real Property. Maitland, Justice and Police. Carter, A History of English Legal Institutions. Holdsworth, A History of English Law. Reference may also be made to— Pollock and Maitland, The History of English Law. Holmes, The Common Law. 4. INTERNATIONAL LAW. The subject may be studied in— Hall, A Treatise on International Lar. Lawrence, The Principles of International Law. Reference may also be made to Heffter, Le Droit International de l'Europe (translated from the Rivier, Principes du Droit des Gens. Dana's notes to Wheaton's Elements of International Law. Phillimore, International Law, Vols. I-III. Pitt Cobbett, Leading Cases and Opinions on International Law, or, Scott, Cases on International Law. |