JURISPRUDENCE CLASS.

MR. LEECH.

(For the whole Class.)

1. What are the constituent elements of a contract-(a) according to Savigny; (b) according to Holland? The latter criticises on one point the analysis of the former ?

2. Trace the steps whereby rights in personam have become transferable. Explain the analogous process of the Roman Law (Novatio). How did bills of exchange come to be exempted from the rules forbidding assignment?

3. Distinguish "torts" and "crimes," and mention acts which may be classed under either head. There is a peculiar practice in France in reference to such cases ?

4. Mention the circumstances which may cause varieties of status among natural persons. Which of them are recognised by English

Law?

5. Enumerate the various Topics of Public Law. How does Holland criticise Austin's views as to the place Public Law should occupy in a legal system ?

6. Define International Law. How does it differ from ordinary Law? What is the meaning of saying that it is the vanishing point of Jurisprudence?

B.

(For those only who have kept three consecutive Terms.)

1. Sketch the heads of a Course of Lectures on Jurisprudence.

2. Write a note upon Possession, pointing out the difficulties which have arisen with regard to it, and noticing the difference of the Roman and Teutonic theories on the subject.

3. Write a note upon Servitudes. How are real Servitudes acquired, and how may they cease to exist?

4. State the four leading classifications of Rights.

EXAMINATION FOR THE DEGREE OF LL. B.

THE REGIUS PROFESSOR OF LAWS.

1. Give Bentham's account of the circumstances, primary and secondary, which affect sensibility.

2. Give a brief account of the fictions with respect to contract which have played a conspicuous part in politics.

3. "Property and Law are born together, and die together." Explain this axiom.

4. Give examples of Attacks upon Security, from the History of Rome, Greece, the Monarchs of the East, and France.

5. Bentham lays it down as a general principle "that the Legislature ought to establish a regular contribution for the wants of indigence.' Under what limitation does he assert, and by what arguments does he support, this principle?

6. What are the true reasons for proscribing certain alliances by way of marriage? What is the judicial significance of the "allegory of the arrows, quivers, and blinded eyes of Love"?

7. Give an account of usus, usufructus, usucapio and usure exceptio. 8. Give an account of Superficies and Emphytensis.

9. State the Roman Law of Intestate Succession.

10. State the outlines of the Law of Rome as to Corporations.

II. What are the principles of Equity as to Penalties and Forfeitures ? 12. What is meant by Conversion and Reconversion?

1. According to Bentham, there is no arrangement more contrary to the principle of utility than community of goods-how does he show this? 2. The principle of superior need is the foundation of many obligations ?

3. The imperfection of law as to Services is corrected by a kind of supplementary law? Illustrate this position.

4. Bentham gives the model of a law of Succession-state its principal articles.

5. Bentham remarks a curious effect of fidelity to Engagements upon the authority of the Government itself-state and illustrate the remark. 6. How does Bentham illustrate the evils of deep play?

7. How does he discuss the subject of hunting?

8. Among the Romans there were two kinds of Adoption? 9. How may corporations be created under English Law?

10. State the difference between usucapion and prescription in the Roman Law.

II. State the peculiarities of the English Law of Contracts as compared with that of Rome.

12. What is a consensual contract?

13. What was the principle of Laesio ultra dimidium ?

14. State the four modes of leaving Legacies which prevailed among the Romans.

MR. LEECH.

1. Write a note upon the origin and development of Roman Equity, and contrast it with that of England.

2. Show in what manner the Roman principle of Occupancy has affected several departments of modern Jurisprudence.

3. Write an essay upon Roman Criminal Jurisprudence, pointing out the reasons for the peculiar features which it exhibits.

4. Explain the following terms :-' Retorsion,' 'Reprisals,' ' Embargo,' 'Droit d' Augarie.' Give an instance of the exercise of the last-mentioned right.

5. Write a note upon Postliminium.' What suggestions are made as to this in Sir W. Scott's judgment in the Santa Cruz?

6. What are the rights of Visit and Search, and on what principle are they founded? Are neutral merchantmen convoyed by vessels of war exempt from these liabilities?

7. Define and distinguish vested remainders, contingent remainders, and executory interests. How are these latter created?

8. Write a note upon the Legislation of Edward I.

9. Give an account of the origin and development of Uses previously to 27 Henry VIII. c. 10.

1. Write a note upon the Laws of Manu, comparing them with the Early Roman Code, and pointing out the different effects upon the civilization of each country.

2. Explain "Jus Tripertitum," and show how the primitive Mancipatory Testament differed from a modern will.

3. State the rule of Mahometan Law as to the division of inheritances among children and remoter issue. What rule is followed in the case of the devolution of political authority?

4. State Austin's objection to the use of the term "Law of Nations." How is it answered by Manning?

5. State the "Rule of 1756” and the principles upon which it is founded.

6. In what modes may a State acquire or lose territory?

7.

Sketch the origin and development of the Chancellor's jurisdiction. Can you give an analogy drawn from the history of Ancient Law?

8. State the object of the Statute of Uses, and point out how far it was successful in attaining that object.

9. State shortly the various statutes which have dealt from time to time with testamentary power in England.

PREVIOUS MEDICAL EXAMINATION.

PHYSICS.

MR. FITZGERALD.

1. A certain specific gravity bottle weighs 3.14 grms., and when full of distilled water it weighs 207.96 grms.; but when full of a certain liquid it weighs 310.37 grms. Calculate what is the specific gravity of the liquid, and explain why your calculation gives the sp. gr.

2. What is meant by the dew-point, and how is it connected with the dampness of the air?

3. Describe experiments to prove that some bodies that are transpaparent to radiations that can be seen are opaque to some radiations that cannot be seen.

4. Describe any arrangement by which the strength of an electric current may be measured.

5. Enumerate some of the differences between positive and negative electricity.

BOTANY.

DR. E. PERCEVAL WRIGHT.

1. Describe the floral whorls in any flower (naming it).

2. In what parts of a plant is starch to be found?

3. What are the functions of Roots?

4. Describe the fruit of the Apple-tree

5. What are Bacteria ?

y

CHEMISTRY.

DR. EMERSON REYNOLDS.

1. How is Bromine obtained and then converted into Hydrobromic Acid?

2. Find the formula of a body whose percentage composition is—

[Ca 40. P = 31. 0 = 16.]

3. Calculate the weight of oxygen gas that one gram of Potassium Chlorate can afford when decomposed by heat.

4. Write the formulæ of Corrosive Sublimate and Calomel, and point out their distinctive characters.

5. If the formula of diabetic sugar be C6H12O6, write an equation representing the decomposition it suffers during fermentation.

MATERIA MEDICA.

DR. WALTER SMITH.

1. Describe the characters of arsenious anhydride (Acidum Arseniosum, B. P.), and of the officinal arseniates. Mention their uses and doses.

2. How does cod-liver oil differ in composition from other oils? How would you administer it, and in what doses ?

3. Describe the fruits of Bael, Colocynth, and Poppy. Dose of the officinal preparation of Bael?

4. Source of Cotton Wool? What changes does it undergo when treated with acids? For what purposes, and in what ways, is the substance so obtained employed?

5. What is a sialagogue? Indicate some of the channels through which such an action can be obtained.

PHYSIOLOGY.

DR. PURSER.

1. Describe the phenomena observed in the blood when it is undergoing coagulation, and give the principal circumstances which promote and those which retard this change.

2. How is it that the blood takes up oxygen in the lungs, and gives it out to the tissues?