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he had no clerk's place vacant; "and, indeed, if I had; he is too young; why, he is a mere child!

"I am twelve next so-and-so," said the boy, giving the month and the day.

"You don't look it, then," said Mr. Chitty, incredulously.

"Indeed, but be is, sir," said the widow; "he never looked bis age, and writes a beautiful haud."

"But I tell you I have no vacancy," said Mr. Chttty, turning dogged.

"Well, thank you, sir, all the same," said the widow, with the patience of her sex. "Come, Robert, we mustn't detain the gentleman."

So they turned away with disappointment marked on their faces, the boy's especially.

Then Mr. Chitty said in a hesitating way, "To be sure, there is a vacancy, but it is not the sort of thing for you." "What is it, sir, if you please?" asked the widow. "Well, we want an office boy."

"An office boy! What do you say, Robert? I suppose it is a beginning, sir. What will he have to do?"

"Why, sweep the office, run errands, carry papers,and that is not what he is after. Look at him; he has got that eye of his fixed on a counsellor's wig, you may depend; and sweeping a country attorney's office is not the stepping-stone to that." He added warily, "At least there is no precedent reported."

"La, sir," said the widow," he only wants to turn an honest penny, and be among law papers."

"Ay, ay, to write 'em and sell 'em, but not to dust 'em!"

"For that matter, sir, I believe he'd rather be the dust itself in your office than bide at home with me." Here she turned angry with her offspring for half a

moment.

“And so I would,” said young master, stoutly indorsing his mother's hyperbole very boldly, though his own mind was not of that kind which originates metaphors, similes, and engines of inaccuracy in general.

"Then I say no more," observed Mr. Chitty; "only mind it is half a crown a week,-that is all."

The terms were accepted, and Master Robert entered on his humble duties. He was steady, persevering, and pushing: in less than two years he got promoted to be a copying clerk. From this, in due course, he became a superior clerk. He studied, pushed, and persevered, till at last he became a fair practical lawyer, and Mr. Chitty's head clerk. And so much for perseverance.

He remained some years in this position, trusted by his employer, and respected, too; for besides his special gifts as a law-clerk, he was striot in morals, and religious without parade.

In those days country attorneys could not fly to the metropolis and back to dinner. They relied much on London attorneys, their agents. Lawyer Chitty's agent was Mr. Bishop, a judge's clerk; but in those days a jadge's clerk had an insufficient stipend, and was allowed to eke it out by private practice. Mr. Bishop was agent to several country attorneys. Well, Chitty had a heavy case coming on at the assizes, and asked Bishop to come down for once in a way and help him in person. Bishop did so, and in working the case was delighted with Chitty's managing clerk. Before leaving he said he sadly wanted a managing clerk he could rely on. Would Mr. Chitty oblige him, and part with this young man ?

Chitty made rather a wry face, and said that young man was a pearl. "I don't know what I shall do without him; why, he is my alter ego.'

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However, he ended by saying, generously, that he would not stand in the young man's way. Then they had the clerk in, and put the question to him.

"Sir," he said, "it is the ambition of my heart to go to London."

Twenty-four hours after that, our humble hero was installed in Mr. Bishop's office, directing a large business in town and country. He filled that situation for many years, and got to be well known in the legal profession. A brother of mine, who for years was one of a firm of solicitors in Lincoln's Inn Fields, remembers him well

at this period, and to have met him sometimes in his own chambers, and sometimes in Judge's Chambers; my brother says he could not help noticing him, for he bristled with intelligence, and knew a deal of law, though he looked a boy.

The best of the joke is that this clerk afterward turned out to be four years older than that solicitor who took him for a boy.

He was now up amongst books as well as lawyers, and studied closely the principles of law whilst the practice was sharpening him. He was much in the courts, and every case there cited in argument or judgment he hunted out in the books, and digested it, together with its application in practice by the living judge, who had quoted, received, or evaded it. He was a Baptist, and lodged with a Baptist minister and his two daughters. He fell in love with one of them, proposed to her, and was accepted. The couple were married without pomp, and after the ceremony the good minister took them aside, and said, "I have only £200 in the world; I have saved it a little at a time for my two daughters. Here is your share, my children." Then he gave his daughter £100, and she handed it to the bridegroom on the spot. The good minister smiled approval; and they sat down to what fine folk call breakfast, but they called dinner, and it was.

After dinner and the usual ceremonies, the bridegroom rose and surprised them a little. He said, "I am very sorry to leave you, but I have a particular business to attend to; it will take me just one hour."

Of course there was a look or two interchanged, especially by every female there present; but the confidence in him was too great to be disturbed, and this was his first eccentricity.

He left them, went to Gray's Inn, put down his name as a student for the Bar, paid away his wife's dowry in fees, and returned within the hour.

Next day the married clerk was at the office as usual, and entered on a twofold life. He worked as a clerk till five, dined in the Hall of Gray's Inn as a sucking barrister, and studied hard at night. This was followed by a still stronger example of duplicate existence, and one without a parallel in my reading and experiencehe became a writer and produced a masterpiece, which, as regarded the practice of our courts, became at once the manual of attorneys, counsel, and judges.

The author, though his book was entitled "Practice," showed some qualities of a jurist, and corrected soberly but firmly unscientific legislative and judicial

bluuders.

So here was a student of Gray's Inn, supposed to be picking up in that Inn a small smattering of law, yet to diversify his crude studies, instructing mature counsel and correcting the judges themselves, at whose chambers he attended daily, cap in hand, as an attorney's clerk. There's an intellectual hotch-potch for you! All this did not in his Inu qualify him to be a barrister; but years and dinners did. After some weary years he took the oaths at Westminster, and vacated by that act bis place in Bishop's office, and was a pauper-for an afternoon.

But work that has been long and tediously prepared can be executed quickly; and adverse circumstances, when Perseverance conquers them, turn round and become allies.

The ex-clerk and young barrister had ploughed and sowed with such pains and labour, that he reaped with comparative ease. Half the managing clerks in London knew him and believed in him. They had the ears of their employers, and brought him pleadings to draw and motions to make. His book, too, brought him clients, and he was soon in full career as a junior counsel and special pleader. Senior counsel, too, found that they could rely upon his zeal, accuracy, and learning. They began to request that he might be retained with them in difficult cases, and he became first junior counsel at the Bar; and so much for Perseverance.

Time rolled its ceaseless course, and a silk gown was at his disposal. Now, a popular junior counsel cannot always afford to take silk, as they call it. Indeed, if he

is learned but not eloquent, he may ruin himself by the change. But the remarkable man whose career I am epitomizing did not hesitate; he still pushed onward, and so one morning the Lord Chancellor sat for an hour in the Queen's Bench, and Mr. Robert Lush was appointed one of her Majesty's Counsel learned in the Law, and then and there, by the Chancellor's invitation, stepped out from among the juniors and took his seat within the Bar. So much for Perseverance.

From this point the outline of his career is known to everybody. He was appointed in 1865 one of the Judges of the Queen's Bench, and, after sitting in that court some years, was promoted to be a Lord Justice of Appeal.

A few days ago he died, lamented and revered by the legal profession, which is very critical, and does not bestow its respect lightly.

I knew him only as Queen's Counsel. I had him against me once, but oftener for me, because my brother thought him even then the best lawyer and the most zealous at the bar, and always retained him if he conld.

During the period I knew him personally Mr. Lush had still a plump, unwrinkled face, aud a singularly bright eye. His voice was full, mellow, and penetrating; it filled the court without apparent effort, and accorded well with his style of eloquence, which was what Cicero calls the temperatum genus loquendi.

Reasoning carried to perfection is one of the fine arts; an argument by Lush enchained the ear and charmed the understanding. He began at the beginning, and each succeeding topic was articulated and disposed of, and succeeded by its right successor, in language so fit and order so lucid, that he rooted and grew conviction in the mind. Tantum series nexuraque pollent.

I never heard him at Nisi Prius, but should think he could do nothing ill, yet would be greater at convincing judges than at persuading juries right or wrong; for at this pastime he would have to escape from the force of his own understanding, whereas I bare known counsel blatant and admired, whom Nature and flippant fluency had secured against that diffi culty.

He was affable to clients, and I had more than one conversation with him, very interesting to me. But to intrude these would be egotistical, and disturb the just proportions of this short notice. I hope some lawyer, who knew him well as a counsel and judge, will give us his distinctive features, if it is only to correct those vague and colorless notices of him that have appeared.

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This is due to the legal profession. But, after all, his early career interests a much wider circle. cannot all be judges, but we can all do great things by the perseverance, which, from an office boy, made this man a clerk, a counsel, and a judge. Do but measure the difficulties he overcame in his business with the difficulties of rising in any art, profession, or honorable walk; and down with despondency's whine, and the groans of self-deceiving laziness! You who have youth and health, never you quail

"At those twin jailers of the daring heart,

Low birth and iron fortune!"

See what becomes of those two bugbears when the stout champion SINGLE-HEART and the giant PERSEVERANCE take them by the throat!

Why, the very year those chilling lines were first given to the public by Bulwer and Macready, Robert Lush paid his wife's dowry away to Gray's Inn in fees, and never whined nor doubted nor looked right nor left, but went straight on-and prevailed.

Genius and talent may have their bonnds, but to the power of single-hearted perseverance there is no known limit.

Non omnis mortuus est; the departed judge still teaches from his tomb; his dicta will outlive him in our English courts; his gesta are for mankind.

Such an instance of single-heartedness, perseverance,

and proportionate success in spite of odds is not for one narrow island, but the globe; an old man sends it to the young in both hemispheres with this comment: If difficulties lie in the way, never shirk them, but think of Robert Lush and trample on them. If impossibilities encounter you-up hearts and at 'em.

One thing more to those who would copy Robert Lush in all essentials. Though impregnated from infancy with an honorable ambition, he remembered his Creator in the days of his youth; nor did he forget Him, when the world poured its honors on him, and those insidious temptations of prosperity, which have hurt the soul far oftener than "low birth and iron fortune." He flourished in a sceptical age; yet he lived and died, fearing God.

REGULATIONS OF THE ENGLISH INNS OF COURT.

The following Consolidated Regulations of the several Societies of Lincoln's Inn, the Middle Temple, the Inner Temple, and Gray's Inn (hereinafter described as the Four Inns of Court), have been instituted, as to the Admission of Students, the Mode of Keeping Terms, the Education and Examination of Students, the Calling of Students to the Bar, and the taking out of Certificates to Practise under the Bar:

ADMISSION OF STUDENTS.

1. Every person, not otherwise disqualified, who shall have passed a public examination at any University within the British dominions, or for a commission in the army or navy, or for the Indian civil service, or for the consular service, or for cadetships in the three eastern colonies of Ceylon, Hong Kong, and the Straits Settlements, shall be entitled to be admitted as a student, without passing a preliminary examination, but subject to rule 7.

2. Every other person, except such as come under rule 15, applying to be admitted as a student, shall, before such admission, have satisfactorily passed an examination in the following subjects, viz. :-(a) The English Language, (b) The Latin Language, and (c) English History. Provided that the Board of Examiners mentioned in rule 3 shall have power to report any special circumstances to the Masters of the Bench of the Inn of Court of which any person may desire to be admitted as a student, and that the Masters of the Bench of such Inn shall have power, with or without such reports, to relax or dispense with this regulation, in whole or in part, in any case in which they may think special circumstances so reported or otherwise ascertained by the Bench, justify a departure from this regulation.

3. Such examination shall be conducted by a joint board to be appointed by the four Inns of Court.

4. For constituting such board, each of the four Inns of Court shall appoint four examiners, and the Council of Legal Education shall have power to allot such remuneration as the council shall think fit to such exami

ners.

5. The examiners shall attend according to a rota to be fixed by themselves, and two shall be a quorum.

6. Meetings of the examiners shall be held at least once in every week during each term, as hereinafter defined, and once in the week next preceding each term, and at such other times as shall be appointed in accordance with any order of the board. Provided that no examiner need attend unless two clear days' notice prior to the day appointed for his attendance shall have been given to the secretary of the board, by at least one candidate, of an intention to present himself on that day for examination.

7. No attorney-at-law, solicitor, writer to the Signet, or writer of the Scotch courts, proctor, notary public, clerk in Chancery, parliamentary agent, or agent in any court original or appellate, clerk to any justice of the peace, or persons acting in any of these capacities, and no clerk to any barrister, conveyancer, pleader, equity draftsman, attorney, solicitor, writer to the Signet, or

writer of the Scotch courts, proctor, notary public, parliamentary agent, or agent in any court original or appellate, clerk in Chancery, clerk of the peace, clerk to auy justice of the peace, or to any officer in any court of law or equity, and no person acting in the capacity of any such clerk, shall be admitted as a student at any Inn of Court until such person shall have entirely and bona fide ceased to act or practise in any of the capaci ties above named or described; and if on the rolls of any court, shall have taken his name off the rolls thereof.

8. The following forms shall be adopted by each of the four Iuns of Court on application or admission as students :

"I, aged

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do hereby declare that I am desirous of being admitted a student of the Honourable Society of

for the purpose of being called to the bar, or of practising under the bar, and that I will not, either directly or indirectly, apply for or take out any certificate to practise, directly or indirectly, as a pleader, or convey. ancer, or draftsman in equity, without the special permission of the Masters of the Bench of the said society.

"And I do hereby further declare that I am not an attorney-at-law, solicitor, a writer to the Signet, a writer of the Scotch courts, a proctor, a notary public, a clerk in Chancery, a parliamentary agent, an agent in any court original or appellate, a clerk to any justice of peace, nor do I act, directly or indirectly, in any such capacity, or in the capacity of clerk of or to any of the persons above described, or as clerk of or to any barrister, conveyancer, pleader, or equity draftsman, or of or to any officer in any court of law or equity.

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10. The word term in these regulations, except where otherwise expressed, shall mean the terms as fixed by the Inns of Court for the purpose of calls to the bar.

11. Students who shall at the same time be members of any of the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge, Dublin, London, Durham, the Queen's University in Ireland, St. Andrew's, Aberdeen, Glasgow, Edinburgh, or the Victoria University, Manchester, shall be enabled to keep terms by dining in the halls of their respective Inns of Court any three days in each term.

12. Students who shall not at the same time be members of any of the said Universities shall be enabled to keep terms by dining in the halls of their respective Inus of Court any six days in each term.

13. No day's attendance in hall shall be available for the purpose of keeping term, unless the student attending shall have been present at the grace before dinner, during the whole of dinner, and until the concluding grace shall have been said, unless the acting Treasurer on any day during dinner shall think fit to permit the students to leave earlier.

14. A student who, previously to his admission at an Inn of Court, was a solicitor in practice for not less than five years (and, in accordance with rule 7, has ceased to be a solicitor before his admission as a student) may be examined for call to the bar without keeping any terms, and may be called to the bar upon passing the public examination required by these rules, without keeping any terms; provided that such solicitor has given at least twelve months' notice in writing to each of the four Inns of Court, and to the Incorporated Law Society, of his intention to seek call to the bar, and produce a certificate signed by two members of the council of the Incorporated Law Society that he is a fit and proper person to be called to the bar.

15. A student coming under the last preceding rule may be exempted by the Masters of the Bench of the Ion to which he seeks admission from passing the examination preliminary to admission.

CALLING TO THE BAR.

16. Every student shall have attained the age of twenty-one years before being called to the bar.

17. Every student, except such as come under rule 14, shall have kept twelve terms before being called to the bar, unless any term or terms shall have been dispensed with under special circumstances by the Benchers of his Inn.

18. No student shall be called to the bar, unless such student shall, to the satisfaction of the Council of Legal Education, have passed a public examination for the purpose of ascertaining his fitness to be called to the bar, and have obtained from the council a certificate of having passed such examination.

19. No student shall be called to the bar until his name and description shall have been screened in the hall, Benchers' room, and treasurer's or steward's office, of the Inn of which he is a student, fourteen days in term before such call.

20. The name and description of every such student shall be sent to the other Inns, and shall also be screened for the same space of time in their respective halls, Benchers' rooms, and treasurers' or stewards' offices.

21. No call to the bar shall take place except during a term; and such call shall be made on the same day by each of the Inns-namely, on the 16th day of each term, unless such day shall happen to be Saturday or Sunday, and in such case on the Monday after.

CERTIFICATES TO PRACTISE under the Bar.

22. No student shall be allowed to take out a certificate to practise under the bar without the special permission of the Masters of the Bench of the Inn of Court of which he is a student, to be given by order of such masters, and no such permission shall be granted to any student unless he shall be qualified to be called to the bar, and the regulations, as to screening names in the halls, Benchers' rooms, and treasurers' or stewards' offices, applicable to students desirous of being called to the bar, shall be applicable to students desirous of practising under the bar. Such permission shall be granted for one year only from the date thereof, but may be renewed annually.

COUNCIL OF LEGAL EDUCATION.

23. The Council of Legal Education shall consist of twenty Benchers, five to be nominated by each Inn of Court, of whom four shall be a quorum. The members of the council shall remain in office for two years, and each Inn shall have power to fill up any vacancy that may occur in the number of its nominees during that period. To this council shall be intrusted the power and duty of superintending the education and examination of students, and of arranging and settling the details of the several measures which may be deemed necessary to be adopted for those purposes, or in rela tion thereto, and such other matters as are herein in that behalf mentioned.

THE COMMITTEE OF EDUCATION AND EXAMINATION. 24. A permanent committee of eight members shall be appointed by the council, to be called the Committee of Education and Examination, of whom three shall be a quorum. Two members of such committee, to be selected by the committee, shall go out of office at the end of two years from the 11th Jan., 1875, and two members, to be selected in like manner, shall go out at the end of every succeeding two years. No member going out shall be re-eligible until he has been at least one year out of office.

25. The committee shall, subject to the control of the council, superintend and direct the education and examination of students, and all matters of detail in respect to such education and examination.

SUBJECTS FOR INSTRUCTION.

26. Students shall be provided with the means of education in the general principles of law, and in the law as practically administered in this country, and for the purpose of such education, systematic instruction shall be given in the following subjects, viz.: Jurisprudence, International Law-Public and Private; Roman Civil Law, Constitutional Law and Legal History, Common Law, Equity, the Law of Real and Personal Property, and Criminal Law.

MODE OF INSTRUCTION.

27. The year shall be divided into three educational terms, the first to commence on the 11th Jan, and to end on the 30th March, the second to commence on the 15th April and to end on the 31st July, subject to a deduction of the days intervening between the end of Easter and the beginning of Trinity Term, and the third to commence on 1st Nov. and to end on the 22nd Dec.

28. Instruction shall be given by means of lectures, but the attendance of students at such lectures shall not be compulsory.

29. The council shall, subject to any alteration which may hereafter be deemed necessary, appoint professors to lecture on the following subject:-i. Jurisprudence, to include the subjects numbered i., ii., and iii. in clause 42 of these regulations. ii. Common Law, to include the subjects numbered iv. and vii., in clause 42 of these regulations, and in the Law of Evidence; iii. Equity; iv. The Law of Real and Personal Property.

30. It shall not be compulsory on the professors to give instruction to private classes; but any professor who may do so shall be at liberty to receive, in addition to his salary, fees from the students who attend his classes. Attendance of students at such classes shall not be compulsory.

31. The professors shall be appointed annually and hold office at the pleasure of the council, and shall be capable of re-appointment at the end of the year, but, as a general rule, shall not be continued in office for a period exceeding three years.

32. To secure systematic instruction, the scheme of the lectures to be given by each professor shall be submitted to, and approved by, the Committee of Education and Examination, at such times and in such manner as the committee shall direct.

33. The council may, from time to time, make arrangements for the delivery of occasional lectures or courses of lectures on any legal subject by any of the professors appointed under these regulations, or by any other persons.

34. Students, in addition to availing themselves of the means of instruction provided by these regulations, are recommended to attend in the chambers of a barrister or pleader for the purpose of studying the practice of the law; but such attendance shall not be compulsory.

35. Each professor shall receive a salary to be fixed by the council not exceeding one thousand guineas a year.

36. The council shall be at liberty to expend sums not exceeding five hundred pounds a year in prizes to

be given to those students who have attended the lectures and passed the best examinations on the subjects thereof, and also from time to time to appoint (in addition to the boards of examiners herein before and hereinafter mentioned) examiners to conduct such examinations at an expenditure not exceeding one hundred pounds per annum.

PAYMENTS BY STUDENTS.

37. Each student shall pay on admission a sum of five guineas, which shall entitle him to attend the lectures of all the professors so long as he shall be a student; and each student shall be entitled to attend the private class (if any) of each professor on payment of the fee fixed by such professor.

THE EXAMINERS.

38- The council shall appoint so many examiners, not exceeding six, and so many assistant examiners as may from time to time be necessary, who shall hold office during the pleasure of the council. No examiner shall hold office for more than three years consecutively, nor shall he, after he has held office for that period, be re-eligible until he has been at least one year out of office. 39. In every year after the second, two of the examiners, to be selected by the council shall retire.

40. Each examiner shall receive a salary of one hundred and twenty guineas a year, and each assistant examiner a fee not exceeding twenty guineas for each examination.

41. No member of the council, and no person who is, or within two years has been a professor appointed by the council, shall be eligible as an examiner.

THE EXAMINATIONS FOR STUDENTSHIPS AND CALL TO

THE BAR.

42. The subjects for examination shall be the following:-i. Jurisprudence, including International Law, Public and Private; ii. The Roman Civil Law; iii. Constitutional Law and Legal History; iv. Common Law; v. Equity; vi. The Law of Real and Personal Property; vii. Criminal Law.

43. No student shall receive from the council the certificate of fitness for call to the bar required by the four Inns of Court unless he shall have passed a satisfactory examination in the following subjects, viz., first, Roman Civil Law; secondly, The Law of Real and Personal Property; thirdly, Common Law; and fourthly, Equity.

44. No student, except such as come under rule 14, shall be examined for call to the bar antil he shall have kept nine terms; but students shall have the option of passing the examination in Roman Civil Law, required by rule 43, at any time after having kept four terms.

45. The council may accept 'as an equivalent for the examination in any of the subjects mentioned in rule 43, other than Common Law and Equity: i. A degree granted by any University within the British dominions, for which the qualifying examination was in law; ii. A certificate that any student has passed any such examination, though he may not have taken the degree for which such examination qualifies him; and iii. The testamur of the public examiners for the degree of Civil Law at Oxford that the student has passed the necessary examination for the degree of Bachelor of Civil Law. Provided the council is satisfied that the studeut, before he obtained his degree, or obtained such certificate or testamur, passed a sufficient examination in such subject or subjects.

46. There shall be four examinations in every year, one of which shall be held in sufficient time before each term to enable the requisite certificates to be granted by the council before the first day of such term. The days of examination shall be fixed by the committee, and at two of such examinations, viz., at those to be held next before Hilary and Trinity Terms, there shall be an examination for studentships.

47. As an encouragement to students to study jurisprudence and Roman civil law, twelve studentships of one hundred guineas each shall be established, aud

divided equally into two classes; one class of such studentships to continue for two years, and to be open for competition to any student as to whom not more than four terms shall have elapsed since he kept his first term; and another class to continue for one year ouly, and to be open for competition to any student, not then already entitled to a studentship, as to whom not less than four and more than eight terms shall have elapsed since he kept his first term; two of each class of such studentships to be awarded by the council on the recommendation of the committee after every examination before Hilary and Trinity Terms respectively, to the two students of each set of competitors who shall have passed the best examination in both jurisprudence and Roman civil law. But the committee shall not be obliged to recommend any studentship to be awarded if the result of the examination be such as, in their opinion, not to justify such recommendation. Where auy candidates appear to be equal or nearly equal in merit, the council may, if they think fit, divide the studentship between them equally or in such proportions as they consider just. Where in any year a studentship in either class is not awarded by reason of the candidates not appearing to deserve it, the council may, if they think fit, appropriate it or a portion of it for that year to the other class, or may offer it for competition in some other subject.

48. Each Inn of Court shall bear the expense of the studentships awarded to its own students.

49. The examiners shall submit their examination papers to the committee for approval at such time as the committee shall direct; and the number of marks to be attributed to each paper shall also be submitted to the committee for their approval.

50. Previous to each examination the committee shall give such notice as they shall think fit of the books and branches of subjects in which students will be required to pass at such examination in order to be entitled to a certificate uuder rule 43.

51. The examination shall be partly in writing and partly viva voce.

52. One examiner at least shall be present during the whole time of the examination in writing.

53. The Board of Examiners shall, after each examination, report the result thereof to the committee, who shall submit to the council the names of those students (if any) who are in their opinion entitled to receive certificates under rule 43, or to obtain studentships.

54. At every call to the bar, those students who have obtained studentships shall take rank in seniority over all other students who shall be called on the same day.

55. All students shall be bound by such variations as may from time to time be made in these regulations.

COMMON FUND.

56. The four Inns of Court shall continue their annual contributions of £360 each towards constituting the common fund, to which shall be added the several fees for forms of admission and for attending lectures; and also the several sums of five guineas for each student, to be paid by the Inns of Court respectively, as additional contributions, pursuant to the report of the committee of the four Inns of Court, dated the 6th Dec., 1871; and any further money which may, from time to time, be required to enable the common fund to meet the charges on it in any year, shall be contributed by the four Inns of Court at the end of such year. rateably and in proportion to the number of students belonging to the four Inus respectively, who shall in that year have been called to the bar or have for the first time obtained permission to practise under the bar.

LAWYER: Do you swear positively, sir, that you know more than half this jury? Witness: Yes, sir; and now that I have taken a good look at 'em, I'll swear that I know more than all of 'em put together.-Puck.

SCHEDULES TO BILLS OF SALE.

Since the decision of Witt v. Banner (58 L. T. Rep. N. S. 34; 20 Q. B. Div. 114) it has been rather a moot question to what degree of particularity a schedule of property to comply with sect. 4 of the Bills of Sale Act, 1882, must extend. The clause enacts that every bill of sale shall have annexed thereto a schedule containing an inventory of the personal chattels comprised in the bill of sale, and such bill of sale shall have effect only in respect of the personal chattels specifically described in the 8th schedule, and shall be void, except as against the grautor, in respect of any personal chattels not so specifically described. According to the case cited it was held necessary, in the instance of a bill of sale granted by a picture dealer, that the pictures covered by the bill of sale should be so described as to indicate the individual pictures intended to be thereby transferred. In the case of Huggins v. Cooper, decided on Friday last week, a divisional court, constituted by Lord Justice Fry and Mr. Justice Mathew, held that words almost identical with those in Witt v. Banner, employed in the schedule to a bill of sale with refereuce to the furniture of a private residence, viz., "twelve oil paintings in gilt frames" in a certain room of the grantor's house, were amply sufficient to comply with the requirements of the last Bills of Sale Act. Now at length drafters of bills of sale have a firm footing to rely upon in drafting the schedule. It must be, according to Witt v. Banner, "an inventory," that is, such an inventory as is usually made for business purposes with regard to the particular subject-matter of the bill of sale, but it need not be a schedule in which the individual articles are described with such accuracy as to distinguish them from all other articles of their class. For instance, as pointed out by Mr. Justice Mathew, it is not necessary that articles of ordinary household furniture, including pictures not of intrinsic merit, should be described in a schedule to a bill of sale by descriptive words, or by any other definitions than those of such general description as would be used by a broker or dealer in making an inventory of like goods for the purposes of sale or probate. Carpenter v. Dean (W. N. 1889, p. 186), where "twentyone milch cows on a farm belonging to the grantor, a dairyman, was held an insufficient description in the schedule, was also cited in argument, but distinguished on the ground that there the stock was a fluctuating one, and therefore the description insufficient for the purpose of identification.-Law Times.

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The following stories are current about Judge Gary of Chicago: One day as I was sitting in a circle of jovial lawyers, one of them told me an anecdote illustrating the celebrated wit and humour of Judge Gary. The others followed suit, and the result was a series of similar stories on the judge. The first one said: "Once I was arguing a motion before Gary, and he drily remarked, 'I am in favour of both feasible suits and suitable fees.' On another similar occasion he asked me if I thought trover would lie for the conversion of a Jew." The next revived the story of the letter the judge wrote to the county board about the great chandelier in the criminal court room, which was very insecure. Gary told them that it was likely to fall at any time," and kill not only the lawyers but innocent citizens who may be sitting within the bar." Another related how he went up to the judge at side-bar one day, and asked him why he did not choke off a longwinded lawyer who was addressing the jury, and how the judge replied: "Because he is like the statute of limitations, the more he is interrupted the longer he runs." Another said that the judge was seen coming out of a bar-room lately about lunch-time, and said he had been to get a cocktail. "A cocktail," he added, "is like a scire facias to me; it revives my judgment.' The last mentioned the judge's judgment on an argument as to whether a bastardy proceeding was civil or criminal. He said: "It seems to me this case began in civilities and ended in criminality."

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