11. Honours may be obtained at the Examination for the Degree of Bachelor of Civil Law by any Candidate who shall not have exceeded the twenty-fifth Term from his Matriculation. Provided that this clause shall not apply to Candidates who have been admitted to the examination under the provisions of § 1. cl. 2. § 3. Of the Admission of Candidates, and of the Conduct of the Examination. 1. The Examination for the Degree of Bachelor of Civil Law shall be held once in every year; and shall begin on the Tuesday in the second week before the Encænia. 2. No Candidate shall be admitted to examination unless he has been admitted to the Degree of Bachelor of Arts. It shall be the duty of the Assistant Registrar to see that this condition is observed. Provided that this clause shall not apply to Candidates who have been admitted to the examination under the provisions of § 1. cl. 2. 3. No Candidate shall be admitted to examination unless he shall have forwarded his name and a list of the subjects in which he offers himself for examination, and a Certificate signed by some officer of or some person deputed by the College or Hall or Body to which he belongs, and showing that his name is on the books of such College or Hall or Body, together with the fee of £2 10s., so as to reach the Assistant Registrar not less than four weeks before the day for the commencement of the Examination. The Assistant Registrar shall have power to determine the form in which Candidates shall draw up the lists. Every Candidate shall state on his list the year and Term in which he was matriculated, and it shall be the duty of the Assistant Registrar to verify, or, if necessary, to correct the statement, and to certify it to the Examiners. 4. A Candidate whose name and list of books and Certificate have not been duly forwarded as aforesaid, may be admitted to examination on payment of Two Guineas in addition to the statutable fee, provided that his name and list and Certificate shall have been forwarded so as to reach the Assistant Registrar not less than two weeks before the day for the commencement of the Examination. The Assistant Registrar shall transmit the name and list so forwarded immediately to the Regius Professor of Civil Law. 5. The Assistant Registrar shall publish a list of the names of Candidates, and, if necessary, a supplemental list, in the manner prescribed with reference to Candidates for the Examinations for the Degree of Bachelor of Arts. 6. The Examination shall be conducted partly in writing and partly viva voce. 7. One Examiner at least shall be present during the whole time of the Examination in writing; provided that where the number of Candidates is not so large as to require separate supervision, arrangements may be made subject to the approval of the Vice-Chancellor and Proctors for placing the Candidates in the same room with the Candidates in any one or more Schools as defined by Statt. Tit. VI. Sect. 1. F. § 10. cl. I and for distributing the duty of supervision among the Examiners in the Faculty of Law and the Examiners in such School or Schools in the same manner as if the Examination in the Faculty of Law were a School defined as aforesaid. 8. At the close of the Examination, the Examiners shall determine among themselves on the merits of each Candidate examined by them, and shall distribute the names of such Candidates (not being disqualified by standing) as they shall judge to have shown sufficient merit into three Classes, according to the merit of each Candidate; and shall draw up a list accordingly, with the names in each Class arranged alphabetically, and shall place at the foot of the list the names of those Candidates who, being disqualified by standing, have shown sufficient merit to entitle them but for such disqualification to a place in the Class List. And such list, signed with the names of all the Examiners, shall be published in such manner as is before provided with respect to the Examinations for the Degree of Bachelor of Arts. 9. At the close of the Examination a copy of the Class List and also an alphabetical list of the other Candidates who shall have satisfied the Examiners shall be made in a book to be kept for that purpose, and shall be certified by the signatures of the Examiners. Such book shall, after the close of the Examination, remain in the custody of the Assistant Registrar; and any question thereafter arising with respect to the result of the Examination shall be determined by reference to such book. § 4. Of the Admission of Bachelors of Civil Law to the Degree of Doctor of Civil Law. 1. Any person who has been admitted to the Degree of Bachelor of Civil Law may supplicate for the Degree of Doctor of Civil Law, provided that he shall have occupied himself in the study of Civil Law for five complete years, to be reckoned from the date of his admission to the Degree of Bachelor of Civil Law, and shall have written a Dissertation upon some legal topic approved of as hereinafter provided. 2. The Dissertation shall be upon a subject previously approved by the Regius Professor of Civil Law, and shall be delivered to the Regius Professor1, who shall submit it for the approval of the Board of the Faculty of Law, and that Board shall in writing report to the Regius Professor as to the sufficiency of the Dissertation to entitle the Candidate to the Degree of Doctor of Civil Law. 3. If the Dissertation shall be reported by the Board of the Faculty of Law to be of sufficient merit to entitle the Candidate to the Degree of Doctor of Civil Law, it shall be read by the Candidate publicly in the Schools, or some other fitting place to be appointed by the Vice-Chancellor, in the presence of the Regius Professor of Civil Law, and on a day to be by him appointed. 4. A Candidate for the Degree of Doctor of Civil Law may offer as his Dissertation a book, treating in a scientific manner of a legal subject, already printed and published of which he is the author. In such case the subject need not be previously approved by the Regius Professor, nor need the Dissertation be read publicly by the Candidate, provided that it shall have been duly reported as aforesaid to have been approved by the Board of the Faculty of Law. (ii) Regulations of the Board of the Faculty. The Examination for the Degree of B.C.L. will, until further notice, include the following subjects:— I. JURISPRUDENce. All Candidates will be examined in Jurisprudence and the Theory of Legislation. II. ROMAN LAW. All Candidates will be examined in 1. The principles of Roman Private Law, as set forth in the Institutes of Justinian. 1 By a Regulation of the Board of the Faculty of Law, three copies of such dissertation must be sent in, and these must be either printed or type-written. 2. One Special Subject, to be selected by each Candidate for himself from the following: (1) Ownership and Possession. (2) The Theory of Contract generally. Candidates are advised to refer as frequently as they can to Gaius and to the Titles of the Digest which bear upon the special subject they have selected. In particular, reference may with advantage be made to the following Titles of the Digest: For Special Subject No. (1), to the Titles 'De Adquirendo rerum dominio' (xli. 1); ' De Adquirenda vel amittenda possessione' (xli. 2). For Special Subject No. (2), to the Title 'De Verborum Obligationibus' (xlv. 1). Roman-Dutch Law. In place of one of the Special Subjects above mentioned a candidate may offer one of the following Special Subjects:-- (1) Ownership and Possession in Roman-Dutch Law. (2) The theory of Contract generally in Roman-Dutch Law. Candidates offering Roman-Dutch Law are recommended to refer to the following titles of Johannes Voet, Commentarius ad Pandectas:For Special Subject No. (1) to the Titles De adquirendo rerum dominio (xli. 1); De adquirenda vel amittenda possessione (xli. 2). De obligationibus et actionibus (xliv. 7); III. ENGLISH LAW. All Candidates will be examined in 1. Real and Personal Property. 2. Common Law (including Contracts, Torts, Criminal Law, and the Procedure of the High Court). 3. Equity (with especial reference to Trusts and Partnership). 4. One Special Subject to be selected by each Candidate for himself from the following list : DEGREES IN MEDICINE AND SURGERY. [For Dates of Examinations see Pages 233, 234.] V1. OF THE TIMES AND EXERCISES REQUIRED FOR [Statt. Tit. VI. Sect. vI.] § 1. Of the qualifications of Candidates for the Degree of Bachelor of Medicine. Any person who has been admitted to the Degree of Bachelor of Arts may supplicate for the Degree of Bachelor of Medicine, provided that he shall have passed the Examinations hereinafter prescribed. § 2. Of the subjects and method of the Examinations for the Degree of Bachelor of Medicine. 1. There shall be two Examinations for the Degree of Bachelor of Medicine. 2. The subjects of the First Examination shall be i. Organic Chemistry in its special relation to Physiology and Medicine. ii. Human Anatomy. iii. Human Physiology. The subjects of the Second Examination shall be- i. Medicine. ii. Surgery. iv. Pathology. v. Forensic Medicine and Public Health. vi. Materia Medica and Pharmacology.* Provided always that i. No Candidate in the First Examination shall be required to offer Organic Chemistry whose name has been placed in the First or Second Class by the Examiners in the School of Natural Science in the subject of Chemistry. ii. No Candidate in the First Examination shall be required to offer Human Physiology whose name has been placed in the First or Second Class by the Examiners in the School of Natural Science in the subject of Animal Physiology. * A Candidate who, before April 14, 1909, passed in Materia Medica and Pharmacy in the First B. M. Examination is deemed to have passed in Materia Medica and Pharmacology in the Second B. M. 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