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CANDIDATES WHO RECEIVED THE DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF

MEDICINE.

Graduation in Law.

DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF LAWS (LL.B.).

The Degree of Bachelor of Laws was instituted by an Ordinance of the Universities' Commissioners, dated the 12th July 1862, from which the following are extracts :

"I. No one shall hereafter be admitted as a Candidate for the Degree of Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) unless he be a Graduate in Arts of one of the Universities of Scotland, or of England or Ireland, or a Graduate in Arts of a colonial or foreign University, whose Degree may, for this purpose, have been specially recognised by the University Court. "II. The Course of Study in Law necessary for the Degree of Bachelor of Laws shall extend over Three Academical Years, and shall include attendance on a distinct Course in each of the six following Departments, viz :

1. CIVIL LAW

2. LAW OF SCOTLAND

3. CONVEYANCING

4. PUBLIC LAW

5. CONSTITUTIONAL LAW and HISTORY

6. MEDICAL JURISPRUDENCE

During Courses of not less than Eighty Lectures each.

During Courses of not less than Forty Lectures each.

"III. No one shall hereafter be admitted to Examination as a candidate for the Degree of Bachelor of Laws, until he has completed the course of study above prescribed; and no one shall be admitted as a candidate in any University unless two at least of the three Academical years of his Course of Study in Law shall have been in such University.

"IV. Candidates for the Degree of Bachelor of Laws shall be examined both in writing and viva voce on each of the six Departments of Law above specified.

"V. Each candidate must satisfy the Examiners that he possesses a competent knowledge of Law in each of the said Departments; and the Examiners shall further, in judging of the qualifications of Candidates, have special regard to their acquirements in the two Departments of Public Law and Constitutional Law and History.

"VI. The Examiners for Degrees in Law in each of the said Universities shall be six in number, and there shall always be one Examiner specially qualified for each one of the six Departments above specified; and where the Professors in the Faculty of Law in any University do not furnish the requisite number of Examiners duly qualified, the number shall be made up by the appointment of additional Examiners by the University Court: Provided always, that no person shall be appointed an additional Examiner in any University unless he be a Professor in the Faculty of Law in a Scottish University, or shall have attained the Degree of Bachelor of Laws in accordance with the provisions of this Ordinance. "IX. Each candidate for the Degree of Bachelor of Laws shall pay a Fee of Five Guineas in respect of his Examination for the Degree. The next Examination for this Degree will take place on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, the 2d, 3d, 4th, and 5th of

November. Gentlemen proposing to enter for it are requested to lodge their names, together with evidence of their being Graduates in Arts, and Certificates of Attendance on the prescribed Courses of Lectures, with the Clerk to the University, at his Office, before the 1st of October.

In the CIVIL LAW the examination will be on the External History of the Law; its Principles, as expounded in the Institutions of Gaius and Justinian; and the doctrines specially dealt with in the titles of the Pandects De rei vindicatione and De acquirendo rerum dominio.

In the LAW OF SCOTLAND the subject will be Mercantile Contracts and Mercantile Remedies.

In CONVEYANCING-Entails.

In PUBLIC LAW the subjects will be the following:-1st, Natural Law in relation to Ethics on the one hand, and to Positive Law on the other. 2d, Public International Law: (a) the History of the principal Maritime Codes of the Middle Ages, and of Scientific Jurisprudence from the time of the Roman Jurists to that of Grotius; (b) the Doctrine relative to the Rights and Duties of Ambassadors, Consuls, and other Diplomatic Agents, and to Recognition, Neutrality, and Intervention. (Text-book. Kent's "International Law" by Abdy.) 3d, Private International Law as explained in the 8th vol. of Savigny's "System des heutigen römischen Rechts" (of which there is a French translation). In CONSTITUTIONAL LAW AND HISTORY the examination will be on the 13th and 14th Books of Montesquieu's "Spirit of Laws," and the 7th and 8th Chapters of Hallam's "Constitutional History."

In MEDICAL JURISPRUDENCE the subjects will be Infanticide and Concealment of Pregnancy, Poisoning by Strychnia, and Testamentary Capacity.

Text-book.-Taylor's "Principles and Practice of Medical JurisJAMES MUIRHEAD, Dean.

prudence."

Bachelors of Laws.

1864.

Francis Deas, M.A., Edinburgh.

1865.

Thomas Mure Mure, M.A., Edin.
Alexander Thorburn, M.A., Edin.

1867.

Richard Vary Campbell, M.A., Glas. Æneas J. G. Mackay, M.A., Oxon.

It

The Degree of Doctor of Laws is conferred honoris causâ tantum. was first granted in 1695. Previously to 1751 it had been conferred on only seven persons. Since then, about 130 names, including some of the most distinguished in Europe, have been added to the Register of Doctors of Laws in the University.

The following is a list of those upon whom the Degree of Doctor of Laws has been conferred within the last twenty years :

Rev. William Anderson, Professor of History, Agra College, East
Indies.

1856.

John Harkness, late Principal of the Elphinstone Institution, Bombay. Rev. John Young.

James Stephen, Professor of English Law and Jurisprudence in King's College, London.

1858.

James Frederick Ferrier, Advocate, late Professor of Moral Philosophy, St Andrews.

Right Hon. Lord Elcho.

John Schank More, late Professor of Scots Law.

Right Hon. John Inglis, of Glencorse, Lord Justice-General.

James Moncreiff, M.P., Dean of the Faculty of Advocates.

Charles M'Douall, Professor of Greek, Queen's University, Ireland.

1859.

Right Hon. Lord Campbell, late Lord Chancellor.

Sir Andrew Smith, late Director-General of the Army Med.-Dep. Right Hon. Lord Brougham and Vaux, Chancellor of the University. 1860.

Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, Lord Rector of the University.

Very Rev. Dean Ramsay.

Hon. Lord Neaves.

James David Forbes, Principal of the United College, St Andrews.
Hon. Lord Barcaple.

Rev. Henry Longueville Mansel, Professor of Moral and Metaphysical
Philosophy, Oxford,

Archibald Campbell Swinton, formerly Professor of Civil Law.

Lord Colonsay.

William Stokes, M.D., Regius Professor of Physic in the University of Dublin.

John Forster, London.

William Sharpey, Professor of Anatomy, University College, London. Rev. William Reeves, D.D., University of Dublin.

William Allen Miller, Professor of Chemistry, King's College, London. William Fairbairn, F.R.S., Manchester.

Charles F. Shand, Chief-Justice of the Mauritius.

Right Hon. Viscount Palmerston, K.G.

William Henry Fox Talbot, F.R.S.

James Pillans, Professor of Humanity, University of Edinburgh.

1864.

David Laing, Librarian to the Society of Writers to the Signet.
John Hill Burton, Advocate.

Joseph Robertson, H.M. Register House.

Sir Alexander Grant, Bart.

W. F. Skene, F.R.S.E.

1865.

Thomas Henry Huxley, Professor of Natural History, School of Mines, and Hunterian Professor of Comparative Anatomy in the Royal College of Surgeons of England.

John Rae, M.D.

Andrew Crombie Ramsay, Director of the Geological Survey of Great Britain.

John Tyndall, Professor of Natural Philosophy in the Royal Institution,

London.