FACULTY OF LAW. 15th The Winter Session, 1919-1920, commences on Wednesday, The Classes* in this Faculty will meet as follows: N.B. For particulars as to the Inclusive Fee for courses in Graduation in Law. Two Degrees in Law are conferred, after examination, by the University, viz., Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) and Bachelor of Law (B.L.). * For Synopsis of Classes see page 134 of Calendar. The Degree of LL.B., if the candidate has been examined in Civil Law, Philosophy of Law, International Law (Public or Private), Constitutional Law and History, Medical Jurisprudence, Scots Law (Civil and Criminal Law, including Procedure) and Conveyancing, admits to the Faculty of Advocates. By the Law Agents Act, 36 & 37, Vict. c. 63, the holder of a degree in Law or in Arts of a University in Great Britain or Ireland, granted after examination, is qualified to apply for admission as a Law Agent after an apprenticeship of three years instead of five, as required in the ordinary case; and by Acts of Sederunt, 20th July, 1878, 18th March, 1893, and 23rd December, 1904, any applicant who holds the Degree of LL.B. or of B.L. of any Scottish University is exempted from any examination in Law before the examiners of Law agents, excepting only on forms of Process, Civil and Criminal, provided he has included Scots Law and Conveyancing among his Graduation subjects. Two Law Graduation examinations are held annually, in March and in June. Candidates are required to lodge their names, certificates of attendance, and evidences of Arts qualifications, together with a list of the subjects in which they desire to be examined, with the Secretary, on or before the 4th of March or the 10th of June in each year. Late entries may be received on a payment of 5s. DEGREE OF LL.B. Ordinance No. 39, General No. 11, which applies to all students who, after 30th September, 1894, began their course of study with a view to graduation in Law, provides as follows: I. No one shall be admitted to examination as a Candidate for the Degree of Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) unless he be a Graduate in Arts of one of the Universities of the United Kingdom; or of any Foreign or Colonial University specially recognised for the purpose by the University Court. II. The course of study in Law for the Degree of Bachelor of Laws shall include the following subjects: (1) Jurisprudence, General or Comparative, during a course of not less than forty lectures. (2) The Law of Nations or Public International Law, during a course of not less than forty lectures. (3) Civil Law, during a course of not less than eighty lectures. (4) Law of Scotland, or Law of England, during a course of not less than eighty lectures. (5) Constitutional Law and History, during a course of not less than eighty lectures. (6) Conveyancing, during a course of not less than eighty lectures; or Political Economy, or Mercantile Law, during a course of not less than eighty lectures. (7) Any two of the following subjects, namely: International Private Law, Political Economy, Administrative Law, Evidence and Procedure, and Forensic Medicine; in each case during a course of not less than forty lectures, or such other subject included in the Department of History and Law, or in the Faculty of Law, as the Senatus, with the approval of the University Court, may from time to time determine. III. (1) The course of study necessary for the Degree of Bachelor of Laws shall extend over three academical years, one of which at least must be spent in the University in which the Candidate intends to graduate, the other two may have been spent in any other University or School of Law, specially recognised by the University Court. (2) No Candidate for a degree shall be deemed to have attended a class as part of the course of study necessary for that degree who does not present a certificate bearing not only that he has given regular attendance, but also that he has duly performed the work of the class. IV. Candidates must undergo examination in the subjects prescribed in Section II. hereof; and they must pass at one examination in at least two of these subjects. Before presenting themselves in any subject the candidates must have attended the requisite course of instruction in such subject. Candidates who have passed an examination for another degree in any of the said prescribed subjects in the same University may be exempted from examination in such subject or subjects, provided that the examiners are satisfied that the previous examination in such subject or subjects has been passed on a sufficiently high standard. V. Every Candidate for the Degree of Bachelor of Laws shall be examined both orally and in writing on each of the subjects in the course of study above prescribed in which he presents himself for examination. VI. (1) Distinction may be awarded to Candidates who have displayed exceptional merit in their examinations. (2) For the Degree of Bachelor of Laws a diploma shall be given, setting forth the subjects in which the Candidate has passed, and the distinction (if any) he has attained. VII. The Examiners shall be the Professors of or Lecturers on the subjects included in the said examinations, and additional Examiners appointed by the University Court. The mode of conducting the examination shall be fixed from time to time by the Senatus Academicus. VIII. Every student who at the time when this Ordinance shall come into operation shall have completed a part of his course with a view to Graduation as Bachelor of Laws in any Scottish University, under Regulations hitherto in force in that University, and shall thereafter complete his course of study in conformity with such Regulations, may become a Candidate for the Degree of Bachelor of Laws without complying with the provisions of this Ordinance. IX. Ordinance numbered 75 of the Commissioners under the Universities (Scotland) Act, 1858, is hereby repealed, in so far as it is inconsistent with this Ordinance. Ordinance Regulating Degree of B.L. ORDINANCE of the University Courts of the Universities of St. Andrews, Glasgow, Aberdeen, and Edinburgh under Section 21 of the Universities (Scotland) Act, 1889, General No. 2 [Regulations for the Degree of Bachelor of Law (B.L.), in lieu of Ordinance No. 40-General No. 12-of the Universities Commissioners, and Amendment of Ordinance No. 39-General No. 11-of the said Commissioners-Regulations for the Degree of Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.).] "Whereas by Section 21 of the Universities (Scotland) Act, 1889, it is enacted that, after the expiration of the powers of the Commissioners under the said Act, the University Court of each University shall have power to make such Ordinances as they think fit, with the approval of His Majesty in Council, inter alia altering or revoking any of the Ordinances affecting such University which had been or might be framed and passed under the Universities (Scotland) Act, 1858, or the said recited Act itself, and making new Ordinances. "And whereas the powers conferred on the said Commissioners have expired. "And whereas the University Courts of the Universities of St. Andrews, Glasgow, Aberdeen, and Edinburgh have severally resolved that it is expedient to alter the Regulations for the Degrees of Bachelor of Law (B.L.) and Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) in the said Universities; and to amend Ordinance No. 39 [General No. 11.-Regulations for the Degree of Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.)] of the said Commissioners, and to revoke Ordinance No. 40 [General, No. 12.-Regulations for the Degree of Bachelor of Law (B.L.)] of the said Commissioners, which Ordinances received the approval of Her late Majesty in Council on the 28th day of May, 1894. "Therefore the said University Courts hereby statute and ordain as follows: "I. Subject to the provision contained in Section II. hereof, each student before entering on his curriculum of study shall have passed-Latin being one of the subjects— "(a) The Preliminary Examination in the Faculty of Arts; and the conditions with respect thereto shall be applicable in all respects except as follows, viz., Latin shall be passed on the higher standard; or "(b) Such other Examination as the Joint Board of Examiners may from time to time accept as equivalent to the said Preliminary Examination in Arts in which Latin has been passed on the higher standard, provided always that the Joint Board of Examiners shall have power to require, as a condition of such acceptance, that the said Examination shall be passed on a higher standard than the ordinary pass standard thereof. "II. If a student, before passing the Preliminary Examination, has attended a class qualifying for graduation, the Senatus may, on special cause shown, permit him to count such class as qualifying for graduation, on condition of his passing the full Preliminary Examination within such time thereafter as the Senatus may appoint; and in every such case the Senatus shall make a report to the University Court setting forth the reasons for the relaxation. "III. A degree in Arts or Science or Economics (not being a degree honoris causâ tantum) in any of the Universities in the United Kingdom, or of any Colonial or Foreign University specially recognised for the purpose by the University Court after consultation with the Senatus, shall exempt from the Preliminary Examination. "IV. The curriculum of study in Law necessary for the degree of Bachelor of Law (B.L.), shall include the following subjects: “1. Civil Law, during a course of not less than eighty lectures. "2. Law of Scotland, during a course of not less than eighty lectures. "3. Conveyancing, or Constitutional Law and (Constitutional) History, or Mercantile Law, during a course of not less than eighty lectures. "4. Jurisprudence, or Forensic Medicine, during a course of not less than forty lectures. 5. Constitutional Law and (Constitutional) History, or Mercantile Law, if not already taken, or Political Economy, during a course of not less than eighty lectures, or any two of the following subjects, each during a course of not less than forty lectures: Jurisprudence, or Forensic Medicine, if not already taken, Public International Law, International Private Law, Evidence and Procedure, or such other subject included in the Department of History |