Examination-Regulations-Scope-Time of Holding. Examinations are held by the Board of Bar Examiners at Montpelier on the first three days of the October General Term. Applicants are required to be qualified upon the following subjects: Common Law, Pleading and Practice, Evidence, Domestic Relations, Personal Property, Contracts (including Sales). Bailments, Negotiable Instruments, Agency, Partnership, Corporations, Real Property (including Mortgages and Landlord and Tenant) Leases, Probate Law, Equity Jurisprudence, Pleading and Practice in Chancery, Torts, Criminal Law, the important provisions of the Vermont statute law, especially those modifying the common law and those relating to practice, conveyancing, and probate, the Constitution of this state and of the United States, and Legal Ethics. The examination shall be partly written and partly oral, and shall include questions upon at least 12 of the foregoing topics.

Admission of Attorneys from Other Jurisdictions.

An attorney who has been admitted to practice in the highest court of another state may be admitted in this state without examination, upon proof that he has practiced one year in such court, is of good moral character, and has resided six months next preceding his application in the county in this state from which his application is made. If he has not had one year's practice, he may be admitted upon examination after six months' law study in an office in this state. In such case he shall file with the clerk of the General Term of the Supreme Court a notice of commencement of such study, stating with whom and where such study has been pursued, and also a certificate of the attorney with whom he is studying, stating that he is so engaged and when he began.

Source of Rules.

Pub. St. 1906, §§ 1337, 1338; Supreme Court Rules (77 Atl.).

VERMONT DECISIONS.

1789 to 1911.

A complete set of Vermont Reports (down to 1911) consists of:

N. Chipman, 1 vol.

D. Chipman, 2 vols.

Tyler, 2 vols.

Brayton, 1 vol.

Aikens, 2 vols.

Vermont, 83 vols.

We have reprinted the Vermont Reports, vols. 1 to 58 and 8 preliminaries, annotated them thoroughly, and bound them in 17 books. Vols. 59 to 65 Vermont are out of print and scarce. The only convenient method of obtaining the decisions in these volumes is through the Atlantic Reporter, 77 vols., which contains all Vermont decisions subsequent to vol. 57. The set also contains all decisions for the last 26 years of Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Maryland, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Rhode Island, including some 2,500 decisions which have been omitted from the State Reports. The tables of cross-citations furnished with the Atlantic make it a simple matter to find the cases, even if cited by the State Report page and volume. Write for price and detailed description.

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Residence-Age—Character.

Every male person over 21 years of age, applying for a license to practice law, must first have obtained from the circuit court of the county or the corporation court of the city wherein he resides a certificate that he is a person of honest demeanor, over 21 years of age, and has resided in this state the preceding six months. Application for such certificate shall be in writing, addressed to the court, and specifying the calendar day when the motion therefor to the court will be made, and must be accompanied by the written recommendation of two members of the board of his judicial circuit, who are practicing attorneys in the Supreme Court of Appeals, as to his good moral character. Such application and recommendation shall be filed with the clerk of such circuit or corporation court ten days before the day on which the court will be asked to grant the said certificate.

Every person over 19 and under 21 years of age, applying for a license to practice law, must obtain a like certificate as to his good moral character and residence within the state for the preceding six months from the circuit court of the county or the corporation court of the city wherein he resides. Such certificate shall also state that the applicant is over 19 years of age, that he has studied law for a period of two years in a law school in this state or in the office of a practicing attorney in this state, and shall give the exact date on which the applicant will attain the age of 21 years.

Application—When to be Filed-Form and Contents-Fee. Applicant shall file a certified copy of his application, accompanied by recommendations and certificates required by the

above paragraph, also a fee of $10, with the secretary of the Board of Examiners, M. B. Watts, Richmond, Va., at least five days prior to the day of examination.

Examination-Regulations-Scope-Time and Place of Holding. The Board of Examiners, consisting of five attorneys, appointed by the Governor, shall hold examinations once in each year at the cities of Richmond and Roanoke, and also at such other times and places as said board or the Supreme Court of Appeals may deem necessary. Such examinations are required to be in writing and are based upon the following subjects: Real and Personal Property, Domestic Relations, Contracts, Agency, Partnership, Negotiable Instruments, Insurance, Corporations, Wills and Personal Representatives, Torts, Equity Jurisprudence, Pleading and Practice at Law and in Equity, Evidence, Crimes and Criminal Procedure, power and duties of the Corporation Commission, Code of Virginia, and Constitutional Law. Upon such examination being had, the board shall certify to the Supreme Court of Appeals a list of those applicants who have passed the examination, recommending their admission to the bar. Any applicant failing to pass the examination may, after six months, again apply in writing addressed to the secretary of the board, setting forth that he has diligently pursued the study of law for six months prior to the second examination, specifying the school where he has pursued his studies, or the course of reading which he has followed. He shall not be required to pay an additional fee for the second examination; but any applicant who fails to pass. the second examination must thereafter make his application and proceed in the same manner as a new applicant.

Admission of Attorneys from Other Jurisdictions.

Any person authorized to practice in the courts of another state may be licensed in this state, without examination, upon

furnishing a certificate from the court of last resort in such state or territory that he has practiced law therein for three or more years and is of good moral character. Such certificate must be signed by the Chief Justice of said court, whose signature must be attested by the clerk of said court, and under the seal thereof. In addition, he shall furnish a certificate from two practicing attorneys in such state or territory as to applicant's good moral character, which certificate shall be attested to by the clerk in like manner.

Source of Rules.

Code 1904, §§ 3191-3193; Laws 1910, p. 238; Rules Supreme Court and Board of Law Examiners.

VIRGINIA DECISIONS.

1730 to 1911.

A complete set of Virginia Reports (down to 1911) consists of:

Jefferson, 1 vol.

Wythe's Chancery, 1 vol.

Washington, 2 vols.

Call, 6 vols.

Hening & Munford, 4 vols.

Munford, 6 vols.

Gilmer, 1 vol.

Randolph, 6 vols.

Leigh, 12 vols.

Robinson, 2 vols.

Grattan, 33 vols.

Virginia, vols. 75 to 110.