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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 shall 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.

Sex No Bar to Admission,

Sex shall constitute no bar to admission in this state.

Miscellaneous.

Persons who are entitled to admission, under the statute, without examination, may be admitted without personally appearing before the court,

Source of Rules.

Sup. Ct. Rules; Laws 1903, cc. 77, 78; Laws 1905, c. 55; Laws 1907, c. 72; Comp. Laws 1913, §§ 685-688.

SOUTH DAKOTA DECISIONS.

1867 to 1915.

A complete set of Reports for South Dakota (down to 1915) consists of:

Dakota Territorial, 6 vols., 1867-1889.

South Dakota, 33 vols., 1889-1915.

All Dakota decisions, territorial and of both states, are reported in the Northwestern Reporter, 148 vols. The set also contains all decisions for the last 36 years of Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska, and Wisconsin, and sells for about one-fifth of the cost of the corresponding State Reports. The

tables of cross-citations furnished with the Northwestern make it a simple matter to find cases, even if cited by the State Reports page and volume. The limited quantity of local case law, and the fact that the decisions of the neighboring states are constantly cited, makes this set a necessity to the lawyer practicing in South Dakota. Write for price and full information.

WEST PUBLISHING Co., St. Paul, Minn.

Citizenship-Age-Character.

Citizenship of this state is not a requisite here, but the candidate shall be 21 years of age and of good moral character, and must be a citizen of some state in the United States.

Application-Fee.

Application must be filed with the secretary of the Board of Examiners, Jas. L. McRee, Tennessee Trust Bldg., Memphis, Tenn., at least 10 days before the examination, and must be accompanied by a fee of $5. The candidate shall file with his application the certificate of the county court in the county in which he resides that he is of sufficient age and of good moral character. Blank forms for use in making application will be furnished by the secretary of the board, but no particular form is prescribed.

Period of Study.

The candidate must also file with his application a certificate signed by the secretary or one of the professors of a law school, or by one or more reputable attorneys under whom a course of study has been pursued, showing the period of time covered by such study, the subjects studied and the law books read. The course of study must cover the subjects enumerated below.

Examination-Regulations-Scope-Where Held.

Examinations are held six times a year, at Knoxville, Nashville, Jackson, Lebanon, Memphis, and Chattanooga, at such

* NOTE.-The Supreme Court of Tennessee has under consideration the adoption of new rules, which will modify the rules as here given, but these new rules had not been adopted in time for this printing.

times as the Board of Examiners determine upon. Applicants will be required to submit written answers to 75 questions based on the following subjects: Real and Personal Property, Personal Rights, Torts, Contracts, Partnership, Bailments, Negotiable Instruments, Principal and Agent, Principal and Surety, Domestic Relations, Wills, Corporations, Equity Jurisprudence, Evidence, Common Law and Equity Pleading and Practice, Criminal Law and Evidence, the Constitutions of the State and of the United States, and Legal Ethics. The board may examine the applicant orally if it sees fit. A minimum grade of 75 per cent. is required in order to be entitled to at license to practice. Persons failing in the first examination may be re-examined after three months without paying an additional fee. A fee of $3, in addition to the regular examina tion fee, will be paid upon the issuance of a license.

Admission of Attorneys from Other States.

Where the requirements for admission to the bar are equal to those prescribed in Tennessee, attorneys from other states may be admitted without examination, by exhibiting their licenses or copies of the record showing their admission to the highest court of the state from which they came. If the requirements are not equivalent to those required in Tennessee, the attorney may be admitted without examination provided he has practiced for a period of 5 years, and the board is satisfied that the applicant is worthy of admission. A fee of $3 shall be paid for li

cense.

Source of Rules.

Act of March 30, 1903, and Rules of Supreme Court adopted April 28, 1903.

TENNESSEE DECISIONS.

1791 to 1915.

A complete set of Tennessee Reports (down to 1915) con

sists of:

Overton, 2 vols.

Cook, 1 vol.

Haywood, 3 vols.

Peck, 1 vol.

Martin & Yerger, 1 vol.

Yerger, 10 vols.

Meigs, 1 vol.

Humphrey, 11 vols.

Swan, 2 vols.

Sneed, 5 vols.

Head, 3 vols.

Coldwell, 7 vols.

Heiskell, 12 vols.
Baxter, 9 vols.

Lea, 16 vols.

Tennessee, vols. 85 to 129.

Cooper's Chancery Reports, 3 vols.

Chancery Appeals, 2 vols.

Shannon's Unreported Cases, 3 vols.

Court of Civil Appeals (Higgins) 4 vols.

All Tennessee decisions subsequent to 16 Lea are reported in the Southwestern Reporter, 169 vols. The set also contains over 800 decisions which have been omitted from the Tennessee Reports or have been reported only as memorandum decisions. Many of these are valuable decisions, and are not reported elsewhere. The set also contains all decisions for the

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