United States Courts.

Supreme Court.

It shall be requisite to the admission of attorneys or counselors to practice in this court that they shall have been such for three years past in the Supreme Courts of the states to which they respectively belong, and that their private and professional character shall appear to be fair. The prescribed oath shall be

taken.

Sup. Ct. Rule (29 Sup. Ct. Rep. xiii).

Circuit Courts of Appeals.

Although the rule of the Circuit Courts of Appeals governing the admission of attorneys, as adopted primarily, provides that, to become eligible, the applicant shall have been admitted to the Supreme Court or any Circuit Court of the United States, and shall have taken the prescribed oath, it has since been changed to some extent in several of the circuits. In the Third circuit, the clause requiring avowal of the oath has been annulled, as respects attorneys of the Circuit Court of the Third circuit; in the Fourth circuit, a fee of $5 is required; in the Fifth and Sixth circuits, a fee of $10 is required; in the Eighth circuit, former admission to the highest court of any state within that circuit is sufficient qualification; and in the Ninth circuit, former admission to a Circuit Court is limited to admission to a Circuit Court of the Ninth circuit, and is enlarged to the extent that former admission in the highest court of any state or territory shall constitute qualification.

C. C. A. Rule and amendments thereto 150 Fed. xxvii, Ixi. lxvii, lxxviii, cxi, cxxvi.

Circuit and District Courts.

The rules for admission to these courts vary. Generally attorneys who have been admitted to practice in other United States courts or the highest courts of a state or territory are eligible.

FEDERAL COURT DECISIONS.

U. S. Supreme Court.

A complete set of the United States Supreme Court Reports (1790 to 1911) consists of 218 volumes. Everything subsequent to vol. 105 is covered by the Supreme Court Reporter (of the National Reporter System) in a set of 30 volumes. The Supreme Court Reporter makes currently one volume a year, covering all the current decisions filed by the court, and is supplied to subscribers in advance sheets as published; these being displaced at the end of the year by a bound volume which contains everything in the official edition, and is equipped with a table giving the official page references.

There are other editions of the United States Reports,-one giving vols. 1 to 218 in 54 books, and another giving vols. 1 to 218 in about 178 books.

U. S. Circuit Courts of Appeals.

These courts were established in 1891, and all opinions from the beginning have been reported currently in the Federal Reporter. (See below.) The back volumes of this set, therefore, incorporate all the reported decisions from these nine courts, and the current numbers give the first report of the current decisions.

The decisions are reported separately in the C. C. A. Reports, of which 103 volumes are now completed.

U. S. Circuit and District Courts.

The early decisions of these courts were never systematically reported until they were gathered together for the elaborate reprint known as the Federal Cases. This includes all decisions from the establishment of the courts, 1789 to 1880, including all cases reported in the original Reports or in contemporary journals, etc., and also thousands of cases never before reported. They are arranged alphabetically, show every known citation, and are fully annotated. The set makes 30 books and a digest. From 1880 the decisions of these courts have been systematically and currently reported in the Federal Reporter, which now (1911) has completed 181 volumes. This is the only publication which reports these important cases systematically, and it is practically the official organ of the courts. The current volumes are supplied to subscribers first in weekly advance sheets, which are afterwards displaced by the bound volumes. This set connects with the Federal Cases, the two series making a complete record of the U. S. Circuit and District Court decisions.

In 1891 the scope of the publication was extended to include the newly-established Circuit Courts of Appeals.

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Citizenship-Residence-Age-Character.

The rules for admission to the bar in this state provide that the applicant shall be a citizen of the United States and a resident of Alabama, of full age and of good moral character.

Who may Apply for License.

Any person satisfying the above requirements, who shall have studied law for 18 months, may make written application to the chancery, circuit, or city court in the county of his residence, and the applicant's qualifications, other than legal, shall be passed upon by the court. If applicant's qualifications, other than legal, are satisfactory, certificate to that effect will be forwarded by the court to the clerk of the Supreme Court, and by him delivered to the chairman of the Board of Examiners.

Examination Holding. At the regular meetings of the Board of Examiners, which shall be held at the Capitol on the second Tuesdays in February and July, all applicants whose names shall have been presented to the chairman as being possessed of all the necessary qualifications except legal learning, and who shall have paid to the clerk of the Supreme Court the fee of $10, may be examined. The examination shall be in writing, and shall consist of questions upon the following subjects: The Law of Real Property, Personal Property, Pleading and Evidence, Commercial Law, Criminal Law, Chancery and Chancery Pleadings, the Statute Law of the State, the Constitutions of the Unite States and the State of Alabama, the Political History of the United States and the Formation of Constitutional Govern

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