Admission on Diploma.

If the candidate be a graduate of the Law Department of the University of Mississippi and of good moral character, he shall be admitted upon presentation of diploma.

Source of Rules.

Code 1906, §§ 202-209, 211; Laws 1912, c. 204.

MISSISSIPPI DECISIONS.

1820 to 1913.

A complete set of Mississippi Reports (down to 1913) consists of:

Freeman's Chancery, 1 vol.

Smedes & Marshall's Chancery, 1 vol.

Walker, 1 vol.

Howard, 7 vols.

Smedes & Marshall, 14 vols.

Mississippi, vols. 23 to 100.

We have reprinted the Mississippi Reports, covering the following volumes: Freeman's Chancery; Smedes & Marshall's Chancery; Walker (1 Miss.); Howard (2-8 Miss.); Smedes & Marshall (9-22 Miss.); and Mississippi, vols. 2363-a total of 65 original volumes, in a series of 31 books. Everything in the original Reports, including the paging, is preserved. Full annotations are added, showing where each case has been subsequently cited by the Mississippi Supreme Court, as well as prior and subsequent reports of the same case, and also showing the disposition of each case that has gone to the Supreme Court of the United States. Annotations to the Century Digest are also made, showing, in connection with each case, the exact places in the Century Digest where the cognate authorities have been collected and compared, thus

bringing together all the law applicable to any particular case. References to the annotations in the American Decisions and American Reports are also added. This Reprint is sold in complete sets only. Detailed information will be furnished on request.

The Southern Reporter, 60 vols., contains all Mississippi decisions subsequent to vol. 63, and all decisions for the last 26 years of Alabama, Florida, and Louisiana. The tables of cross-citations furnished with the Southern make it a simple matter to find the cases, even if cited by the State Report page and volume. The Southern is the only medium through which all of the current Mississippi decisions may be had, and which furnishes them promptly. Write for price and detailed information.

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Age-Residence-Character.

Proof of good moral

Every applicant for a license to practice shall produce satisfactory evidence that he is 21 years of age, of good moral character, and a resident of the state. Proof of age and residence may be made by his affidavit. character shall be by written certificate, signed by the judge of the circuit court or of the court of common pleas and three members of the bar of the county where applicant resides, or has lately resided.

Application-When to be Filed-Fee.

Applications, on forms prescribed by the board of examiners and furnished upon request by the clerk of the Supreme Court, must be filed with the clerk at Jefferson City at least 10 days before the date set for examination and must be accompanied by a fee of $10. The applicant shall file with his application all the proof required by the rules of the board, as shown in the paragraphs above and below.

General Education.

Applicant shall file with his application satisfactory proof that he has had a preliminary education substantially equivalent to that obtained through a common or grammar school course of study and possesses a fair knowledge of civil government, American and English literature, general history, and American and English constitutional history. Such proof may be made by exhibiting the diploma of any university or college in good standing, or diploma of a high school whose graduates are permitted to matriculate at a state university without an examination, or affidavit of the principal or teachers of a high school under whom the applicant has studied,

designating the studies pursued, the length of time devoted to each, the applicant's degree of proficiency in each study and showing that the applicant has a preliminary education as shown above and a fair knowledge of the subjects given above, or a. diploma from any academy or preparatory school whose course of study has been passed upon and accepted by the Board of Law Examiners. All applicants who cannot comply with either of the above requirements shall be subjected to an examination upon their general education and upon their knowledge of the subjects specified above. A minimum average of 70 per cent., based on a scale of 100 per cent., shall be necessary to qualify the applicant for the law examination. Applicants for this preliminary examination must present themselves at the clerk's office at 2 o'clock on the Saturday next preceding the Monday upon which the law examination. will be held.

Term of Study.

While no particular period of study is prescribed, the rules of the Board of Examiners provide that no person will be examined as to his knowledge of the law, until he has carefully read and studied at least one standard unabridged textbook on each of the subjects listed under heading "Examination," below. Every applicant for admission on examination shall file with the application his affidavit, and the affidavit of at least one other credible person in support thereof, setting forth in detail the several text-books read by him, together with the dates when read and the time consumed in the reading thereof, respectively: Provided, that this rule shall not apply to graduates of any reputable law school.

Examination-Regulation-Scope-Time and Place of Holding. Examinations are held at Jefferson City, usually in January and June. The exact date is fixed by the Board of Examiners. Such examinations shall also be held at St. Louis

and Kansas City, and at such other cities in the state as the Supreme Court may direct, and at times fixed by said court. If satisfied that the requirements in the above paragraphs have been complied with, the Board of Examiners will examine the candidate in writing upon the following subjects: Contracts, Criminal Law and Procedure, Torts, Domestic Relations, Agency, Public and Private Corporations, Partnership, Real Property, Personal Property, Sales, Bailments, Carriers, Common-Law Pleading, Code Pleading, Equity, Evidence, Wills and Probate, Constitutional Law, Negotiable Instruments, Extraordinary Legal Remedies, Conflict of Laws, Insurance, Pleading and Practice under the Missouri Statutes, and Legal Ethics. All examinations shall be written and the applicants shall be graded on a scale of 100. The board shall recommend for admission any applicant, otherwise qualified, who has made a general average of.70 per cent. provided, that he shall attain a grade of not less than 50 per cent. in all subjects. An applicant failing to make 50 per cent..in any subject may, at any time within one year, take another examination in such subject, and shall be recommended for a license, provided he attains a grade of 70 per cent. therein. Any applicant failing to make a general average of 70 per cent. in his first examination may, at any time within a year thereafter, take another examination in those subjects in which he failed to make a grade of 70 per cent. but none other, and he shall be recommended for a license, provided he attains a general average of 70 per cent. in the second examination. In case of success, the oath will be administered and license granted.

Admission of Attorneys from Other Jurisdictions.

Any person becoming a resident of this state after having been admitted to the bar in any other state may, in the discretion of the Supreme Court, be admitted to practice in this state without examination, upon proof of the other qualifications re