North Dakota. Citizenship-Age-Character. Every applicant for admission shall be a resident of the state, 21 years of age, and of good moral character. Term of Study. Each applicant for admission must have pursued a regular course of study of the law for at least two years, either in the office of a member of the bar engaged in active practice in this state, or in some reputable law school in the United States, or partly in one and partly in the other. The above fact must be supported by the affidavit of the secretary or dean of the law school attended by him, or of the attorney in whose office he studied, and, in the latter case, the affidavit shall state that such attorney was, during such period, regularly engaged in the practice of law in this state. In no case will applicants be admitted to examination unless it shall appear that they have pursued a course of study equivalent to that required of candidates for graduation in the law department of the State University. It shall be the duty of attorneys in this state with whom a clerkship has begun to file with the clerk of the Supreme Court a certificate stating the date of the commencement of such clerkship, and such period shall be deemed to commence at the time of such filing. Examination-Regulations-Scope-Fee. After satisfying the court as to his general qualifications, by a sworn statement filed with the clerk of the Supreme Court. the candidate shall undergo a public examination as to his legal attainments before the court, or a commission of not less than three members of the bar appointed by the court. Such exam ination shall be both written and oral. A fee of $13 will accompany the application, of which $3 will be returned in case the applicant does not receive a license. Prescribed oath will be administered in open court; provided that, in the case of graduates of the law department of the State University, the oath may be administered by the clerk in or out of term time. Admission of Attorneys from Other Jurisdictions. Any person who has been admitted to practice in another. state may be admitted here on written motion filed with the clerk of the Supreme Court by a member of the bar of this court, provided he has become a resident of the state. Such person shall, in the discretion of the Supreme Court, be exempt from examination and proof of study, if satisfactory evidence is offered that the other qualifications are sufficient, and that the applicant has practiced law for three years in the state of his admission and is in good standing in that state. A fee of $3 shall accompany the application. Admission on Diploma. Graduates from the law department of the State University shall, upon presentation of diploma to the Supreme Court within two years from date of receipt, be admitted without further examination upon submitting proof of two full years spent in such law school, or one year in such law school and one year in some other reputable law school, or a like period in an attorney's office, and proof of the general qualifications required of other applicants. Miscellaneous. Applications must be addressed to the clerk. Examinations are held at Fargo on the first Tuesday in December, and at Grand Forks on the first Tuesday of June. The Supreme Court has decided that graduates of so-called "correspondence schools" are not within the meaning of the statute, and in consequence are not entitled to admission. Source of Rules. Rev. Codes 1905, §§ 488-199; Sup. Ct. Rules (74 N. W xii). NORTH DAKOTA DECISIONS. 1867 to 1909. A complete set of reports for North Dakota (down to 1909) consists of: Dakota Territorial, 6 vols., 1867-1889. North Dakota, 16 vols., 1889-1909. All decisions of Dakota Territory and of North and South Dakota are reported in the Northwestern Reporter, 119 vols. The set also contains all decisions for the last 30 years of Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska, and Wisconsin, and it sells at less than one-fifth of the cost of the corresponding Reports. The tables of cross-citations furnished with the Northwestern make it a simple matter to find the cases, even if cited by the State Report page and volume. The limited number of local authorities, and the fact that the decisions of Minnesota and Wisconsin are followed closely by the Dakotas, makes the Northwestern a necessity to the North Dakota lawyer. Write for full description and price. WEST PUBLISHING Co., St. Paul, Minn. Ohio. Citizenship-Age-Character. No person shall be licensed to practice unless he is a citizen of the United States or has declared his bona fide intention of becoming such, and unless he is 21 years of age, and until he shall have filed a certificate of some attorney that he is of good moral character. One year's residence in the state is also required. General Education. A preliminary education, other than legal, equivalent to that received in a four-year course in a public high school of this state, is necessary before undertaking the examination, and the certificate setting forth the evidence as to this must be filed with the clerk at least 10 days before the legal examination. Applicants who do not present satisfactory evidence of their educational attainments will be required to undergo examination relative therete. Examinations for this purpose are held at Columbus, one on the third Tuesday of May and one on the third Tuesday in November. A fee of $2 is required. Term of Study. A period of three years of regular and diligent study in the office of a practicing attorney or in a law school, or partly in an office and partly in a law school, shall be required before permission shall be granted to attempt the examination; and a certificate showing the name, age, and residence of the student and the date when he commenced the study of law, shall be filed with the clerk of the Supreme Court. A fee of 50 cents shall accompany the certificate. Examination-Regulations-Scope-Fee. The board of examiners, consisting of 10 members of the bar, shall conduct the examination and shall require an average of 75 per cent. on the written answers offered to the questions selected on the subjects of the law of real and personal property, torts, contracts, evidence, pleading, partnership, bailments, negotiable instruments, agency, suretyship, domestic relations, wills, corporations, equity, criminal law, constitutional law, and legal ethics. A fee of $6 shall accompany each application for examination, and shall be returned to the candidate if his name is not placed on the examination roll. If his name be placed on the examination roll, and he fails to pass, he shall not be required to pay any further sum upon a second application; but for each subsequent application a fee of $6 shall be paid. In case the applicant is rejected, second examination shall be allowed upon filing a certificate that he has studied law for six months subsequent to the prior test. But examinations are restricted to five in number, and the fifth examination shail be not less than two years after the fourth, and applicant must furnish certificate that he has studied diligently during the intervening two years. The applicant is thereafter ineligible. If successful, the oath of office shall be administered before a license is granted. Admission of Attorneys from Other Jurisdictions. A person, resident of the state, who has pursued the study of law for three years under the tuition of an attorney, and has been admitted in a court of record of the United States, or, having been admitted after a shorter period of study, has practiced for a time sufficient, when added to his term of preparatory study, to make up the three years, may be admitted to examination upon proof of good moral character, provided that one who has been admitted in another state after a course of study of at least two years shall be licensed in this state without examination upon proof of the preliminary study, the ad |