BURSARIES IN FACULTY OF LAW. In the case of all Scholarships, Bursaries and Prizes awarded on the results of Competitions, the Senatus reserves the right to make no award in the event of Candidates failing to reach a sufficient standard of proficiency. I. COMPETITION BURSARIES. 1. CATTO. See this Foundation under the head of Competition Bursaries in the Faculty of Arts. 2. THE EDINBURGH ABERDEENSHIRE CLUB EXHIBITION.+ See this Foundation under the head of Competition Bursaries in the Faculty of Medicine. In the years in which it is awarded to a Student in Law, the Competition is open to Students of either the first or second year, who have the requisite qualiafiction. (Next award, Session 1927-28.) 3. MACKAY. See this Foundation under the head of Competition Bursaries in the Faculty of Arts. 4. MATHER.*+‡ Founded in 1807, by John Mather, Madras, and regulated by "The Aberdeen (Endowed Institutions) Provisional Order, 1881 The number of Bursaries is two, of the annual value of £15 each, tenable for two years. Open to male and female students; other Bursaries open to male students only. Awarded to the most distinguished Law student of the first year who has attended at least two classes qualifying for a Degree in Law. [Åpproved by the University Court on 11th May, 1926.] Mather Bursars must attend in each year during which they hold the Bursary, at least two classes qualifying for graduation in Law and shall duly perform the work of these dasses, provided that Bursars who have attended all but one of the Courses qualifying for their Law Degree and passed the Degree Examinations therein may be permitted to hold the Bursary during their second year of tenure although they are attending only one class. [By resolutions of Senatus, 28th June, 1927.] 5. SIR JAMES SIVEWRIGHT BURSARIES.* Founded in 1920 under the Will of the late Sir James Sivewright, K.C.M.G., of Tulliallan in the County of Fife, dated 5th August, 1915. The Bursaries are twenty in number, each of the annual value of £25, or thereby, five of which will be awarded yearly, tenable for four years in any of the Faculties. A student, with the approval of the Senatus Academicus, may be permitted to continue to hold his Bursary in a Faculty other than that in which he originally obtained the Bursary and may have it continued for another period. Bursaries in the Faculty of Law will be awarded each year on the results of an examination to be held concurrently with the Arts Bursary Competition. The subjects of examination are-English and Latin and not more than three of the following subjects, Greek, Mathematics, Natural Philosophy, including Mechanics, French, German, Gaelic and Spanish. The Bursaries are open to students coming to the University from the County of Moray, with a preference to students who have attended Milne's Institution, Fochabers, and especially to those who are sons of stone masons. When lodging their schedules for the Competition, candidates for a Sivewright Bursary must state their home address, their school, the occupation of their father and the Faculty in which they propose to study. II. PRESENTATION BURSARIES. 1. BALMORAL.* These Bursaries are now open to students proceeding to a Degree in any Faculty. For Regulations, see under Bursaries in Arts. 2. MILNE (COLONEL ALEX.).* See this Foundation under Faculty of Arts. 3. HELEN SCOTT FUND.* See under Science Faculty. SCHOLARSHIP. See this Foundation under the head of Scholarships in the Faculty of Arts. * Open to male and female students; other Bursaries open to male students only. SCHOLARSHIPS, BURSARIES, ETC., NOT EXCLUSIVELY CONNECTED WITH THE UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN. COMMONWEALTH FUND FELLOWSHIPS. (See under Arts Faculty.) HARRY DALGETY BURSARIES. Students of Aberdeen University who have attended the classes of Scots Law and Conveyancing may compete for one of these Bursaries, each of the value of £50 per annum and tenable for two years at the University of Edinburgh. The subjects of the Examination are Scots Law and Conveyancing. For further particulars and forms of application, apply to Messrs. Dove, Lockhart & Smart, S.S.C., 29 York Place, Edinburgh. PRIZES. 1. THE CRUICKSHANK LAW PRIZE. By her Trust Disposition and Settlement, dated 19th March, 1898, Miss Anne Hamilton Cruickshank, Aberdeen, directed the special Trustees therein named to set aside a sum of £2000 for the purpose of providing an annual Prize or Prizes in connection with the Faculty of Law, in memory of her younger brother, John Forbes Cruickshank. Regulations for the Cruickshank Law Prize. 1. The Law Prize which is of the annual value of £120 is tenable for two years and shall be awarded every second year. 2. The Competition is open to all Candidates who, within the two years immediately preceding the date of Competition, shall have graduated in Law in this University. 3. The Competition shall be by written Essays on Branches of Law to be announced at least nine months before the date of Competition. 4. The Examiners are the Professor of Scots Law, the additional Law Examiner, and such others as the Senatus may appoint. The award shall be made by the Senatus. 5. The holder of the Prize shall, within one month of the date of award, submit to the Dean of the Faculty of Law the legal subject which he has selected for special study, and he shall report in writing to the Dean during the following December the progress which he has made in such special study. 6. Not earlier than 1st August and not later than 30th September in the second year of tenure, the Prizeman shall submit to the Faculty of Law, a Thesis on the subject of special study; and he shall be bound, but only if called on by the Faculty of Law, to deliver in the University one or more Lectures, not exceeding three, on the subject of the Thesis. 7. Candidates are required to matriculate for the year in which the Competition takes place, or in the event of their not being in attendance at classes at the University to pay an Admission Fee in lieu of Matriculation, and to produce evidence that they are eligible. 8. This Prize cannot be held along with any other Prize, Scholarship, or Bursary in the Faculty of Law. 9. The standing of Graduates will be computed from the date of the Graduation Ceremony immediately following the completion of their Law Examinations. 10. The award will not be made if the work in the Competition is not, in the unanimous opinion of the Examiners, of a sufficiently high standard. 11. The Regulations may be changed from time to time by the Senatus. The next Examination will be held in November, 1927. The subjects of Examination are: 1. The Law of Succession and Trusts. 2. The History of the Law of— (a) Bills of Exchange. (b) Bail in Scotland. Candidates are required to lodge their names and evidences of their qualifications with the Secretary on or before 31st October, 1927. Prizemen. 1923. Archibald M. Williamson, M. A., LL.B. Norman J. Wilson, M. A., LL.B., proxime accessit. 2. EDMOND. Founded in 1889, by Francis Edmond, M.A., King's College, 1823; LL.D., Abdn., 1881, of Kingswells, Advocate in Aberdeen. The annual value is £10, to be applied for a Bursary or Medal, or for Prizes in money or books, to one or more students of Law attending the Scots Law and Conveyancing Classes of the University, as the Law Faculty may from time to time determine. It has been arranged that in the meantime the revenue of the Fund shall be applied each year as a Money Prize to be awarded to the student who graduates in Law with the highest number of marks on a minimum curriculum, provided that he has attended the Classes of Scots Law and Conveyancing in this University and has graduated with distinction. The Hunter Medal in Roman Law was founded by public subscription in 1903 as a Memorial to William A. Hunter, M.P., M.A., 1864; LL.D., 1882. The following are the regulations for its award: 1. The Hunter Gold Medal may be competed for by any one who has attended the class of Civil or Roman Law in this University within four years immediately preceding the date on which Essays are to be lodged with the Secretary of Senatus as after-mentioned. 2. The Medal shall be awarded annually by the Senatus for the best Essay on some subject connected with the exposition or the History of Civil or Roman Law on the Report of an Examiner appointed by the Senatus. 3. The subject of the Essay for each year shall be announced at the beginning of the Winter Law Session and Essays must be lodged by Competitors with the Secretary of Senatus on or before the second day of the next ensuing Summer Session. 4. Each Essay must bear a motto, and be accompanied by a sealed envelope marked with the same motto, and containing the Competitor's name, address and date of attendance on the class of Civil or Roman Law in this University. 5. These Regulations may from time to time be altered by the University Court. |