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Jury. The Royal Prerogative. History of the Law of Treason. The Liberty of the Person. The Liberty of the Press. History of Party Government. Origin and Development of the Cabinet System. History of the Reform Bills.

Text Book: Taswell-Langmead's Constitutional History of England.

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Leading rules as to (1) personal capacity, (2) rights of property, (3) rights of obligation, (4) rights of succession, (5) family rights, (6) forms of legal acts. The use of courts by strangers. The effects of foreign judgments. Select cases upon the Conflict of Laws.

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Sources, Subjects, Objects and Sanctions of International Law. Sovereigns, Consuls, Ambassadors. Rights and Duties of Neutrals. Reprisals, Contraband, Blockade, Rights of Search, Privateering, Capture and Recapture, Construction of Treaties, Extradition.

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Sources of Criminal Law. Felonies and Misdemeanours. Offences against property, against persons, against the Queen and Her Government, against Public Justice, against Public Peace, against Public Trade, against Public Morals. Conspiracy. Accessories. Offences after previous convictions.

Text Book: Stephen's Digest of Criminal I aw.

REAL PROPERTY.

Lecturer..

.HON. MR. SHANNON, Q. C., D. C. L.

One lecture per week.

Subjects of lectures:

Estates in Fee Simple; Estates for Life; Estates in Remainder, and Reversion; Joint-Tenancy and Tenancy in Common; Estates for Years; Landlord and Tenant; Easements; Devises; Descent of Real and Personal Property,

Text Books: Williams' Real Property, and Tudor's Leading Cases.

CONTRACTS.

Professor..

Subjects of lectures;

Two lectures per week.

.B. RUSSELL, A. M.

Definition of terms; agreement, consideration, proposal, acceptance, promise, &c. Persons who may contract, principal and agent. Disabilities arising from infancy, coverture, lunacy, intoxication, &c. Express and implied contracts. Verbal and written contracts. Specialties. Statutory requirements as to validity or authentication of contracts; Statute of Frauds. Causes vitiating agreements; mistake, fraud, duress, &c. Discharge of contracts, recission, performance, payment, release, merger, &c. Leading cases.

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Capacity to buy and sell. Executed and executory contracts of sale. Statute of Frauds. Lord Tenterdon's act. Rules as to passing of property. Reservation of jus dispouendi. Stoppage in transitu. Condition, warranty, express and implied. Remedies of seller and buyer.

Text Book: Benjamin on Sales.

Lecturers..

EQUITY JURISPRUDENCE.

HON. MR. JUSTICE TOWNSHEND AND PROFESSOR RUSSELL

Two lectures per week, extending over two years.

Subjects of lectures:

Trusts, Mortgages, Fraud, Mistake, Specific Performance of Contracts, Administration of Debts and Assets. Election, Account, Discovery, Injunction,

Text Book: Smith, H. A.

MARINE INSURANCE.

Lecturer.

.MR. GRAHAM, A. M., Q. C.

One lecture per week.

Subject of lectures:

Parties to and Agents for Marine Insurance; The Policy; Durability; Misrepresentation; Concealment; Warranties; General and Particular Average; Total Loss; Abandonment.

Text Book: Arnould.

Lecturer.

TORTS.

Mr. Payzant, A. M.

Subjects of lectures:

One lecture per week.

Definitions. Torts considered with reference to Crimes and Contract. Deceit. Slander and Libel. Malicious Prosecution. Conspiracy. Assault and Battery. False Imprisonment. Enticement and Seduction. Trespass to Property. Conversion. Violation of Water Rights and Rights of Support. Nuisance. Negligence.

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Nature of Proof, Production and Effect of Evidence, Relevancy, Instruments of Evidencc.

Text Books: Greenleaf on Evidence; Judicature Act aud Rules.

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Constitution. Liability of partners inter se and to third persons. Change of firm. Retirement of partners. Dissolution. Mining ventures. Joint-stock Companies. Canada Joint-stock Companies Act.

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Formal Requisites. Consideration. Indorsement and Transfer. Real and personal defenses. Over-due paper. Notice of Dishonour. Protest. Bill or note. Bonds, Debentures, &c.

Text Book: Ames' Select Caees.

§ XXIII.—THE ACADEMIC YEAR.--The academic year consists of one Session. The Session of 1888-9 will begin on the 4th of September, 1888, and end on the 15th of February, 1889.

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§ XXIV.-ADMISSION OF STUDENTS. (1.) Students may enter the University by (a) furnishing satisfactory references or certificates of good moral character, (b) entering their names in the Register, and (c) paying the prescribed fees.

(2.) Registered students may, on payment of the proper fees, (see page 59), enter any of the classes of the University.

(3.) Students who wish to obtain University Degrees must become undergraduates. They may become undergraduates by (a) passing either one of the Matriculating Examinations or a recognized equivalent, and (b) matriculating, . e., entering their names on the Matricula or Register of Undergraduates.

(4.) Students who are not undergraduates are known as General Students.

§ XXV.-DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF LAWS.-(1.) Candidates for the Degree of LL. B. are required to pass the Matriculation Examination, or a recognized equivalent, and to pass the Sessional Examinations in the subjects of the three years course of study.

(2.) Undergraduates of other Law Schools may, on producing satisfactory certificates of standing, be admitted to similar standing in this Law School if, on examination, they are found qualified to enter the classes proper to their years. But if their previous courses of study have not corresponded to the course on which they enter in this University, they may be required to take extra classes.

(3.) Graduates in Arts who have taken the classes of Constitutional History, Constitutional Law and Contracts, as parts of their Arts Course, shall be allowed to graduate in two years from the date of their entering upon the Law Course, provided they take in those years all the other classes specified.

§ XXVI. MATRICULATION EXAMINATION.-(1.) Candidates for entrance into the First Year of the Course shall be examined in the following subjects, except in cases in which certain Examinations mentioned below shall have been already passed:

CLASSICS.-Xenophon-Anabasis, Books one and two. CiceroThe 1st and 4th Orations against Catiline. Virgil-Æneid, Books one and two. Translation from English nto Latin. Latin Grammar.

MATHEMATICS.-Arithmetic ; Geometry-Books one, two and three

of Euclid.

ENGLISH.-A paper on English Grammar, Composition.

HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHY.-English History; Geography, North America and Europe.

ELEMENTS OF BCOK-KEEPING.

Students may substitute French for Greek.

(2.) Persons desirous of appearing as candidates at this examination must give notice to the Dean of the Faculty on or before August 27th, 1888; and they shall be required to pay a fee of $5.00 on the morning of the day of Examination. The Examination will be held next Session on Monday, September 3rd, at 10 o'clock, A. M.

(3.) Graduates and Undergraduates in Arts of any recognized College or University, and articled clerks or law students who have passed the preliminary law examinations in any of the Provinces of the Dominion of Canada, or in Newfoundland, shall be admitted to the standing of Undergraduates of the First Year in the Faculty of Law, without passing any examination.

§ XXVII.-COURSE OF STUDY FOR DEGREE OF LL.B.

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Undergraduates are required to attend with regularity the classes of their respective years. The extent of absence from prescribed classes which shall disqualify for the keeping of a Session shall be determined by the Faculty.

NOTE.-Third Year students in 1888-9 will also take the subject of Conflict of Laws transferred to the Second Year of the course.

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