What qualifications as to citizenship, personal character, and liberal education are required from the applicant?

What qualifications are required in the way of a professional study of law, and must such study be done in a law office or be supplemented by study in such an office?

Nothing in the way of citizenship or liberal education, but character must be satisfactory to justice presiding at time of examination.

Must have been a citizen two years (of State) and be of good moral character. No liberal education required by law.

Must be a citizen of the State, or declared his intention to become such, and must be of good moral character. Undoubtedly, applicant's command of English, as shown in examination papers, is of weight.

Must be a resident in the State, a citizen of the United States, and of good moral character (affidavit of at least two members of the bar of the State in good standing and on prescribed forms). The board of examiners will regard applicants who have received bachelors' degrees from any reputable college or university as having prima facie the requisite general educational qualifications for admission to the bar. So also as to graduates of Michigan normal or high schools, or other reputable institutions of similar character. Recent firstgrade teachers' certificate will also be accepted. Otherwise applicant must pass examination, especially arithmetic, grammar, elementary algebra, general American and English history, civil government composition and rhet oric, and English literature. If the professional examination papers of a college or other graduate show deficiencies in education the writer will be subject to examination. Must present his atidavit that he is of age and is a citizen of the United States, or has de elared his intention to become such. Also affidavits from two practicing attorneys that he is a person of good moral character. Board shall examine applicants in such branches of general education as it may deem expedient.

spent in study of law. The court will not be satisfied with the qualifications of a candidate in point of legal learning unless it shall appear that he is well read in the following course of studies at least: Constitution (Story), Law of Nations (Vattel or Wheaton), History of the civil law in Louisiana. Louisiana Civil Code, Code of Practice, General Statutes, Institutes of Justinian, Domats's Civil Law, Pothier on Obligations, Blackstone's Commentaries (fourth book), Kent's Commentaries, Mercantile Law (Smith), Insurance (Wood), Negotiable Paper (Story, or Parsons and Daniel), Evidence (Greenleaf, Starkio or Phillips), Crimes (Russell), Criminal Procedure (Bishop), and the Jurisprudence of Louisiana.

Must have studied law two years in a lawyer's office or law school, and must be vouched for by the member of bar with whom the student has read. The examining committee is composed of three members of the bar in each county.

Must have been a student of law for the two years immediately preceding his application, and must be examined by court if not a graduate of a law school in State. The court selects the examining committee.

Must pass a thorough examination. See letter of Mr. Fox (p. 1192), answer to seventh question.

Graduates from law department of Michigan University or Detroit College of Law, both having a three years' course, are admitted to bar on their diploma. Others must have studied law for three years previous to applying for admis. sion, which shall be conditioned on the applicant's answering correct 70 per cent of the questions asked him in a written and oral examination on the administration of estates, agency, bailment and carriers, bills and notes, common law, contracts, constitutional law, public and private corporations, criminal law and procedure, damages, domestic relations, equity jurisprudence and procedure, evidence, insurance, mortgages, partnership, pleading and practice (common and Michigan law), personal and real property, torts, legal ethics, State statute law, international law, suretyship, frauds, United States courts. There is a State board of law examiners.

Must be examined by State board of examiners in law of real property, conveyances and trusts, equity jurisprudence, pleading and practice, common law, statute law, code pleading and practice, constitutional law, international law, criminal law, contracts, sales, bailments and negotiable instruments, landlord and tenant, insurance, partnership, agency, suretyship, frauds, damages and liens, torts, domestic relations, executors, administrators, and wills. Attorneys of five years' standing from any other State or territory of the United States or District of Columbia may, in the discretion of the board, be admitted without examination.

What qualifications as to citizenship, personal character and liberal education are required from the applicant?

MISSOURI: The law prescribes no qualifications; but in regard to personal character and citizenship the board has made a rule, which has not been questioned, according to which an applicant must present two letters of recommendation from physicians as to his moral and professional character, and he must be a resi dent of the State unless he makes affidavit that he resides in a county of another State, which county lies upon the border of Missouri. MONTANA: None; but board may refuse to grant license on moral grounds.

What qualifications are required in the way of a professional study of medicine, specifying, in addition to the branches of medicine and surgery, and practice thereof required, the duration of such study, and whether it must be supplemented by "study with a physician?"

Under a recent decision of the supreme court it is necessary only to be the possessor of a diploma from a legally chartered medical school in good standing to be admitted to registration. The good standing of the school to be determined, like the reputation of an individual, by testimony. The court decided that the law did not authorize the board to set up a standard.

Applicants must posses a diploma from a reputable school of medicine whose professors and teachers are graduates of a school of that kind, and which after July 1, 1898, requires attendance upon four courses of lectures of at least six months each, no two terms in one year. No credit for practice of or study with a physician is given.

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NEVADA: None..

NEW HAMPSHIRE: Good moral character and 21 years of age. Must have graduated from a registered college or satisfactorily completed a full course in a registered academy or high school, or had a preliminary education considered and accepted by the regent (State superintendent of education) as fully equivalent.

NEW JERSEY: Nothing as to citizenship, but at least two physicians, one of New Jersey, must vouch for personal character. Candidates must be graduates from an accredited literary or scientific college, or have completed satisfactorily not less than a three years' course in an accredited high school or academy, or have received a preparatory education covering the following branches, viz. orthography, arithmetic, English grammar and composition, geography, history of the United States, algebra, and physics, or what this board of examiners may consider their equivalent.

NEW MEXICO: Two certificates well accredited as to personal character and professional standing. Our board disproves of medical schools doing their own examination of candidates for matriculation. It requires that each candidate for admission to a medical school shall furnish as a minimum a high school certificate-preferably a college degree.

A medical education and a diploma from some regularly chartered medical school, said school to have a bona fide existence at the time when said diploma was granted.

Our State pays now (1897) no attention to medical college diplomas except from Dartmouth. After 1893 Dartmouth graduates will have to stand examination. Applicant must have studied medicine not less than four full school years of at least nine months each, including four satisfactory courses of at least six months each, in four different calendar years, in a medical college registered as maintaining at the time a satisfactory standard. The regent shall accept as the equivalent for any part of these require ments or those concerning a literary education, evidence of five or more years of reputable practice provided that such substitution be specified in the license, or has either received the degree of bachelor or doctor of medicine from some registered medical school, or a diploma or license conferring full right to practice medicine in some foreign country. (Recent law.) Candidates must have received a diploma conferring the degree of doctor of medicine from some legally incorporated medical college (which in the opinion of the board was in good standing at the time of issuing said diploma) in the United States or a diploma or license conferring the full right to practice all the branches of medicine and surgery in some foreign coun try, and have also studied medicine four years, including three courses of lectures in different years in some legally incorporated American or foreign medical college or colleges prior to the granting of said diploma or foreign license; provided, however, that two courses of medical lectures, both of which shall be either begun or completed within the same calendar year, shall not be considered as satisfying the above requirements. All examinations shall be written in the English language and the questions shall be, except in materia medica and therapeutics, such as can be answered in common by all schools of practice.

No study with a physician required. As to professional study our board has not specified at length its requirements except as to time (four years) and terms of lectures [courses] (four) and conditions for matriculation. [A diploma of a legally chartered medical institution in good standing will admit to practice-law.]

character, and bona fide resident of New Mexico.

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