South Carolina.

Citizenship-Age-Character.

The statutes of this state require that an applicant for admission shall be a citizen of the state, 21 years of age, and of good moral character.

Examination-Regulations-Scope-Fee.

The examination of the candidate's legal attainments, consisting of questions on Blackstone's Commentaries, Kent's Commentaries, Parsons or Chitty on Contracts, Daniel on Negotiable Instruments or Chitty on Bills, Williams on Executors, Pomeroy on Remedies, Greenleaf on Evidence, Story's Equity Jurisprudence or Adams' Equity, Daniell's Chancery Pleading and Practice, Bishop on Criminal Law, Bishop on Criminal Procedure, Constitution of the United States, the Constitution, General Statutes, and Acts of South Carolina, and the rules of the Supreme, Circuit, and Probate Courts, shall be in writing, conducted by the justices of the Supreme Court, and passed upon by them. The candidate shall pay in advance a fee of $5 to defray expenses. If the test is favorably passed, the candidate shall take the prescribed oath of office and the oath respecting dueling and be licensed.

Admission of Attorneys from Other Jurisdictions.

Any person of good moral character, who has been admitted to a court of record in the United States, shall be admitted to the courts of like grade in this state, upon motion, on taking the prescribed oaths.

Admission on Diploma.

A graduate of the Law School of the State University, of good moral character, shall be admitted upon taking the prescribed oaths.

Miscellaneous.

Examinations are held at such times as the court may direct. Applications must be filed on or before the second Tuesday of the term.

Source of Rules.

. Rev. St. 1893, §§ 2288-2290; Sup. Ct. Rules.

SOUTH CAROLINA DECISIONS.

1783 to 1907.

A complete set of South Carolina Reports (down to 1907)

consists of:

Law Reports, 1783-1868.

Bay, 2 vols.

Brevard, 3 vols.

Mills, 2 vols.

Nott & McCord, 2 vols.

McCord, 4 vols.

Harper, 1 vol.

Bailey, 2 vols.

Hill, 3 vols.

Riley, 1 vol.

Dudley, 1 vol.

Rice, 1 vol.

Cheves, 1 vol.

McMullan, 2 vols.

Speer, 2 vols.

Strobhart, 5 vols.

Richardson, 15 vols.

Chancery Reports, 1784-1868.

Desaussure, 4 vols.

Harper, 1 vol.

Bailey, 1 vol.

Richardson's Equity Cases, 1 vol.

Hill, 2 vols.

Riley, 1 vol.

Dudley, 1 vol.

Rice, 1 vol.

Cheves, 1 vol.

McMullan, 1 vol.

Speer, 1 vol.

Strobhart, 4 vols.

Richardson, 14 vols.

South Carolina, New Series, 74 vols., 1868-1907.

All decisions subsequent to South Carolina, New Series, vol. 25, are reported in the Southeastern Reporter, 56 vols. The set also contains all decisions for the last 20 years of Georgia, North Carolina, Virginia, and West Virginia. The tables of cross-citations furnished with the Southeastern make it a simple matter to find the cases, even if cited by the State Report page and volume. The set costs about one-fourth the price of the corresponding State Reports. In fact, the subscriber for the South Carolina Reports covered by the Southeastern has paid considerably more than it would have cost him to take the Southeastern and get, in addition to his own, all the decisions of the four neighboring states. Write for price and full information.

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South Dakota.

Citizenship-Age-Character.

Each candidate shall prove to the satisfaction of the court that he is a resident of the state, 21 years of age, and of good moral character; the last to be proved by the certificate of a court of record.

Preliminary Education-Term of Study.

Applicant's general education must be substantially equivalent to that involved in the completion of a high school course of study at least three years in extent. He must also have actually and in good faith pursued a regular course of study of the law for at least three full years, either in the office of an attorney in this state or other state, or of a judge of a court of record, or in some reputable law school in the United States, or partly in such office and partly in such law school. At the commencement of his term of study, either in the office of an attorney or in some reputable law school, he shall file with the clerk of the Supreme Court a certificate of such attorney or the chief of such law school, as the case may be, showing his name, age, and residence, and the date when he commenced the study of law, which certificate shall be accompanied by a fee of 50 cents.

Examination-Regulation-Scope-Fee.

All applicants, except graduates of the College of Law of the State University entitled to admission to practice as by law provided, shall be examined in open court, before the justices of the Supreme Court or a commission of not less than five

members of the bar. An average of 75 per cent. is required, on an examination embracing the following subjects: Evidence, Law of Real and Personal Property, Torts, Contracts, Pleading, Partnership, Bailments, Negotiable Instruments, Agency, Suretyship, Domestic Relations, Wills, Corporations, Equity, Criminal Law, Constitutional Law, the Code of Civil Procedure, and Legal Ethics. If the candidate shall pass the examination satisfactorily, he shall be admitted upon taking the required oath.

Admission of Attorneys from Other Jurisdictions.

Any person becoming a resident of this state after having been admitted by the highest court in another jurisdiction, and who has practiced regularly therein for not less than five years, may, in the discretion of the court, be admitted, without examination or proof of period of study, upon presenting a certificate of admission to practice in such state or district.

Admission on Diploma.

All law students who have completed the course prescribed by the College of Law of the State University, or the equivalent of such course, including the subjects prescribed by law for admission to the bar in this state, and have graduated therein and been admitted by the State University to the degree of Bachelor of Laws, shall be deemed to have the learning requisite to entitle them to practice in any of the courts of the state, and may be admitted to practice without examination, on proof of the admission to such degree and that applicant is at least 21 years of age and of good moral character.

Miscellaneous.

Examinations are held in the Supreme Court room in the city of Pierre on the first day of each regular term of court, being the first Tuesdays of April and October. Applications, together with credentials, should be sent to the clerk of the Su