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EXAMINATION FOR THE DEGREE OF
MASTER OF ARTS.

SCHOOL OF HISTORY, POLITICAL ECONOMY, AND JURISPRUDENCE.

HISTORY.

Professor Elkington.

Write a careful Essay on each of the following subjects::

(1) The relations between Rome and the Emperors at Constantinople during the 8th century.

(2) The causes which ultimately broke up the Carolingian Empire.

(3) A comparison of the causes of schisms in the Caliphate and of schisms in the Papacy.

(4) The influences of the Crusades on the civilization of Europe.

(5) The rise and progress of the Lombard cities. (6) Louis the Eleventh.

POLITICAL ECONOMY.

Professor Elkington.

Write a careful Essay on each of the following subjects :

(1) "There is nothing in the laws of value which remains for the present (J. S. Mill) or any future writer to clear up.”

(2) An estimate of Bastiat's services to economic science.

(3) The mobility of labour as a factor in the wages question.

(4) The case against Bimetallism.

(5) The effect upon British commerce of an increase in foreign manufactures.

(6) A brief historical investigation of the causes of the depreciation of paper currencies.

JURISPRUDENCE.

Professor Harrison Moore.

1. "Ethical Jurisprudence is to a certain extent not only legitimate but necessary." Consider this

statement in relation to the doctrines of the analytical school.

2. What part has been played by Religion in the development of English Law?

3. What are the principal objections to Austin's classification (a) as an ideal arrangement of legal notions, (b) as a practical system for the arrangement of English Law?

4. Consider the origin and meaning of the leading systems of succession ab intestato. Account for the exclusion of the half-blood and the ascendant from succession to English real property.

EXAMINATION FOR THE DEGREE OF
DOCTOR OF LAWS.

PRINCIPLES OF LEGISLATION.

The Board of Examiners.

1. "The subject of the Government of Dependencies has to be distinguished on more grounds than one from that of Local Government." Consider the distinction.

2. Compare colonisation by Greece and Great Britain, and consider the political significance of the terms Greater Greece and Greater Britain.

3. Give an outline of the Commonwealth of Australia Bill.

4. What are the relations of the Crown to the territories which constitute the Indian Empire?

JURISPRUDENCE.

The Board of Examiners.

1. What is the nature of the services rendered to Jurisprudence by Austin and Maine respectively?

2. Consider Blackstone's classification of law as (a) a model of juristic arrangement, (b) an appropriate arrangement of English Law.

3. "Unless we are, like Austin, to be enslaved by a conception of sovereignty which can only be realized in an Oriental despotism, we must admit that there is in our constitution, as in others, a supreme legislative sovereign or supreme lawmaking power, and an executive sovereign whose constitution may be changed, but whose acts are not or cannot be habitually controlled by the other." (ANSON, Law and Custom of the Constitution, vol. i., p. 38.) Criticize this statement in relation to (a) the nature of sovereignty, (b) the sovereignty of England.

ROMAN LAW.

The Board of Examiners.

1. Give an account of the growth of appellate power at Rome.

2. What was the Existimatio of a citizen, and how was it affected?

3. Explain the theory of quasi-possessio, and consider the cases to which it was applied.

4. To what extent was agency admitted in the Roman Law in

(a) The acquisition of property;

(b) The formation of contracts;

(c) The bringing and defending actions?

EXAMINATION FOR THE DEGREE OF
DOCTOR OF MEDICINE.

LOGIC.

Professor Laurie.

1. Must the cause be always antecedent to its effect? And may the effect continue after the cause, in the strict sense of the word, has ceased to exist? Discuss these questions.

2. Treatment by Antitoxin is recommended as a remedy for diphtheria. How may the Inductive Methods be applied in testing this discovery?

3. Does plurality of causes interfere with any of the Canons of Induction as stated by Mill? If so, in what way, and to what extent?

4. What is the character, and what are the limits, of scientific explanation ?

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