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4. Are utility and asceticism reconcileable to any, and, if any, to what extent ?

5. State the principal causes of antipathy.

6. Is happiness, or are the things which are merely means towards happiness, the principal objects of human desire and exertion?

7. Define a sanction.

8. Define the physical sanction.

9. Define the moral sanction. 10. Define the political sanction.

11. Define the religious sanction.

12. Define conscience.

13. State the differences between the art of morality and the art of legislation.

14. Define prudence. 15. Define probity.

16. Define benevolence.

17. Are there any, and, if any, what branches of the art of morality, which are not properly branches of prudence, probity, or benevolence?

18. What is the meaning of the expression "a natural law"?

19. What is the meaning of the expression "a natural right"?

20. State Bentham's opinion as to the doctrine that a human law ought not to be obeyed when opposed to a natural law or to a divine law.

21. What is his criterion for determining which of two modes of conduct ought to be preferred?

TUESDAY, June 24.-Afternoon, 3 to 6.

'DUMONT'S BENTHAM-PRINCIPLES OF LEGISLATION-OF A CIVIL CODE-OF A CRIMINAL

CODE.

1. Define security.

2. Define property.

3. Define equality.

4. Define disappointment.

5. Define a crime.

6. Define mischief of the first class.

7. Define mischief of the second class.

8. Define mischief of the third class. 9. Distinguish alarm from danger.

10. Give instances of actions producing alarm without danger.

11. Give instances of actions producing danger without alarm.

12. Define a motive.

13. Are motives correctly divisible into good and bad ? 14. What influence has the supposed motive of the criminal on the alarm excited by a crime?

15. In what sense does Bentham use the word "remedy"? 16. Define a preventive remedy. 17. Define a suppressive remedy. 18. Define a satisfactory remedy. 19. Define a simply penal remedy.

20. State Bentham's opinions as to the advantages attending the practice of duelling.

21. State his opinions as to the disadvantages attending the practice of duelling.

22. Does Bentham approve or disapprove the conduct of a man who endures an insult which he might repel by a duel ? 23. Does he approve or disapprove the state of public opinion on this subject?

Examination for Honours.

MONDAY, July 7.-Morning, 10 to 3.

THE PRINCIPLES OF LEGISLATION.

Examiner, NASSAU W. SENIOR, Esq.

1. Is legislation an art or a science?

2. State the principal purposes to which it is applicable. 3. What is the foundation of the obligation to obey the commands of the persons invested with supreme authority?

4. Under what circumstances is resistance to the commands of the persons invested with supreme authority justifiable?

5. Define a pure monarchy. 6. Define a pure aristocracy. 7. Define a pure democracy.

8. Define a mixed government.

9. To which of the pure forms does the present government of England most nearly approach?

10. Is the monarchical element strongest in England, in France, or in the United States of America?

11. Define an arbitrary act.

12. By what means can arbitrary acts by the supreme government be prevented?

13. With respect to the election of representatives, state the advantages and disadvantages

A. Of open or secret voting.

B. Of voting by lists, or separately for each candidate, or for each two candidates, or for each three.

C. Of voting at a predetermined place and time, or by means of voting-papers left at the houses of the voters and collected by a public officer.

14. State the advantages and disadvantages of supplying religious instruction

A. By the voluntary system.

B. By endowment.

C. Out of the general taxation of the country. 15. Is it advisable that any, and, if any, what restrictions should be imposed on charitable devises?

16. Is it advisable that any, and, if any, what restrictions should be imposed on charitable bequests?

17. State the qualities which it is desirable to obtain in a Judge.

18. State the advantages and disadvantages of a plurality of judges.

19. Where the judges are plural, what is the most convenient number?

20. State the advantages and disadvantages of trial by jury in civil cases.

21. State the advantages and disadvantages of trial by jury in criminal cases.

22. State the advantages and disadvantages of requiring unanimity from jurors.

23. In France no legal proceeding can be taken against an officer of the government for misconduct in his duties unless with the consent of the government. State the advantages and disadvantages of this rule.

24. Property can be entailed

In Germany for ever.

In England for a life or lives in being and 21 years after.

In France, not at all.

State the advantages and disadvantages of each system.

TUESDAY, July 8.-Morning, 10 to 3.

CONVEYANCING.

Examiner, NASSAU W. SENIOR, Esq.

1. State the differences between

An estate.

A power.
A possibility.

A right.

2. State the law as to perpetuities.

3. A devised to B, his second son, in fee with a proviso that if he attempted to mortgage the devise should be void. B mortgaged.

C, A's eldest son, entered.

Was his entry lawful?

4. Devise, before the Mortmain Act, to Corporation A in trust, to apply the rents for the benefit of the poor of the town of B, with a proviso that if A should at any time fail for one whole year to do so, the property should go to Corporation C on similar trusts for the poor of D.

100 years after the death of the testator, Corporation A ̧ misapplied the rents for one whole year. Did the land thereupon pass from Corporation A to Corporation C at law? And did the poor of D thereupon become the cestui que trusts instead of the poor of B?

5. Conveyance unto and to the use of A and his heirs in trust for B and his heirs.

B devises to C in trust to sell and pay his debts.

B dies, leaving no debts and no heir.

Who is entitled to the property?

6. A contracted to sell greenacre to B in fee. The conveyance was executed, but the purchase-money not

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