On admission to the degree of M.A., every candidate pays a fee of £12 to the University Chest.

The creation of Masters of Arts, or the completion of the degrees of those who have been admitted during the year, takes place at the Magna Comitia on the last Tuesday but one in the month of June.

At the creation of Masters of Arts in every year, the names of the Inceptors are arranged in order of seniority, according to their seniority as Bachelors at inauguration.

The candidates who have incepted during the year are not required to be present at the ceremony of creation, as formerly under the Elizabethan Statutes; the Senior Proctor reads over their names in the Senate House, and pronounces them to be actually Masters of Arts.

Any person, after March 25, 1859, having taken the degree of Master of Arts, or any degree qualifying him for voting in the Senate, but not having obtained the right of voting from his name not having been kept on the boards of his college, may have his name placed upon the Register of Members of the Senate, and obtain the right of voting, by paying to the Vice-Chancellor a sum of money equal to the sum of all the payments (six shillings yearly) which he would have made to the University if his name had continued on the boards of his college to March, 25, 1859, together with the sum of all the payments which he would have made to the University if his name had been placed on the register immediately after March 25, 1859, and continued on it up to the time of his application.

The sums of money, so received by the Vice-Chancellor, are to be applied by him to the same purposes as the several payments would have been applied, if the names of the applicants for admission to the register had continued on the boards of their respective colleges and on the register. All persons admitted to the degree of Master of Arts, but who have not yet completed their degrees by creation, may be created without personal attendance at the Magna Comitia of any year, on application being made to the Registrary for that purpose.

It is also ordered, that the Register of Voters be revised and promulgated by the Vice-Chancellor, so as to give publicity to it, as soon as conveniently may be after the Magna Comitia in every year; and at the time of such promulgation, the ViceChancellor shall fix some convenient time and place for publicly hearing objections to the register, which any member may make on the ground of any person being improperly placed on, or omitted from it; when, if such objection shall appear to the Vice-Chancellor to be well founded, he shall correct the register accordingly, and shall thereupon sign and promulgate it, as the correct list of persons who have the right of voting in the Senate.

All persons whose names are enrolled on the register are required to pay to the University in every year the sum of twelve shillings, including the sum of six shillings, payable, as heretofore, for the support of the University Library: such annual sums of twelve shillings to be paid to the Vice-Chancellor by four equal quarterly payments on the usual quarter days.

Any graduate who had removed his name from the College boards may have it restored. The arrears of College payments during the time the name has been off the boards are not required to be paid; but on re-entering the name on the boards there is an annual payment, different at different colleges, which, with the University annual payment, a member of the Senate may compound for, and be exempted from all future payments for life.

EXAMINATIONS AND DEGREES IN LAW.

All students, candidates for the ordinary degree of Bachelor of Law, as their first degree, must have passed the ordinary Previous Examination; and candidates for Honours in Law must also have passed the examination in "the Additional Mathematical Subjects" of the Previous Examination.

Every candidate for the degree of Bachelor of Law, not being previously a Bachelor of Arts, is required to attend the lectures of the Regius Professor of Law during two terms at least, or the lectures of the Regius Professor of Law during

one term, and the lectures of the Downing Professor of Law during one term, at some time after three terms' residence.

On March 3, 1859, it was ordered, by Grace of the Senate, that the fixed subjects for students who are candidates for honours* should be,-Hallam's Constitutional History of England; Wheaton's Elements of International Law; and some modern edition of Blackstone's Commentaries.

That, in addition to these fixed subjects, there be others selected by the Board of Legal Studies, of which one or more books of the Digest, portions of the Institutes of Gaius and Justinian, and portions of Quintilian De Institutione Oratoria, or some Oration of Cicero, involving points of law, shall always form a part; public notice of which shall be issued in the Lent Term of the year next preceding the examination. That the fixed subjects of examination of students, not candidates for honours,† shall be Justinian's Institutes, Books

* The following are the subjects selected for candidates for honours in the examination for the degree of B.L., 1863:

1. Roman Law.-(For translation)-Gaii Comm. Justiniani Institut. Digest, Lib. II. De Vindicatione. Cicero de Legibus.

(The paper of questions will be set principally from the Roman Law of Obligations and Actions.)

2. English Law.-Blackstone's Comm., Vols. III. and IV., on Private and Public Wrongs. Joshua Williams's Law of Real Property. Broom's Com. mentaries on the Common Law, Book II., On Contracts.

3. English History.-Hallam's Constitutional History, Vols.I., II., and III. 4. International Law.—(a) Blockade. Right of Search. Right of Asylum. Reference may be made to any English Treatise on International Law, to Tudor's Leading Cases in Mer. Law, and to the French Treatises of Hautefeuille and Ortolan.

(b) The Peace and Treaty of Ghent, December, 1814.

+ The subjects for students not candidates for honours in Law, 1862, are the following:

1. Roman Law.-(For translation.) Digest, Book I., Title 2. Ulpian's Fragments. Institutes of Justinian, Books I. and II., with Sandars' Notes and Commentary.

2. English Law.-Blackstone (Warren), Chapters III.-XV. and XLII to the end of the book.

3. English History.-Hallam's Constitutional History, from the commencement of the Reign of William III. to the end of the book.

N.B.-Candidates for the ordinary degree in law may substitute for Hallam's Constitutional History, the Principles of Jurisprudence, and Hindoo and Mahomedan Law, on giving a month's notice of such intention to the Regius Professor of Law.

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I., II., with Sandars' Annotations and Commentary; and the Second Title of the First Book of the Digest; De Origine Juris; Hallam's Constitutional History from the Time of the Revolution; and Warren's Blackstone.

The examiners are the Regius Professor of Law, and three other members of the Senate, nominated by the Board of Legal Studies, and elected by Grace of the Senate, before the division of Michaelmas Term every year; and if the Regius Professor of Law shall be prevented from examining in any year, a deputy to examine in his stead shall be nominated by the Vice-Chancellor, and elected by the Senate.

Every candidate for honours in the examination for the degree of Bachelor of Law is required, at some time after six terms' residence in the University, to keep an exercise in the follow manner :

The Regius Professor shall assign the day and hour when the exercise shall be kept, and preside over the exercise, or one of the examiners for the degree of LL.B., deputed by him.

The candidate shall read a Thesis, composed in English by himself, on some subject approved by the professor; the professor or examiner presiding, shall bring forward arguments or objections in English for the candidate to answer, and shall examine him in English, viva voce, as well on questions connected with his Thesis, as on other subjects in the faculty of a more general nature; the exercise being made to continue at least one hour.

Public notice of the exercise shall be given by fixing on the door of the University Schools, eight days at least before the assigned time, a written paper specifying the name and college of the candidate, the day and hour appointed for the exercise, and the subject of the Thesis. Copies of the notice shall be delivered also, at the same time, to the Vice-Chancellor and to the professor.

It is also ordered that no one shall be placed in the Honour Classes of the examination for the degree of Bachelor of Law who has not kept his exercise to the satisfaction of the professor; and that in determining the Honour Classes, credit

shall be given to every student for the manner in which he has kept his exercise.

The General Examination of candidates for the degree of Bachelor of Law commences on December 17, and is open to all students of law who have kept eight terms at least.

The names of those students who pass the examination with credit are placed according to merit in three Honour Classes, and the names of those who pass the examination to the satisfaction of the examiners, yet not so as to deserve honours, are placed alphabetically in a fourth class.

Every candidate for the degree of Bachelor of Law who is not a candidate for honours, shall be examined viva voce in the public schools of the University, in a public manner, by two, at least, of the examiners appointed to conduct the examination for the degree of Bachelor of Law present at the same time; the time of such examination being assigned by the professor, and public notice of it given eight days, at least, beforehand by a written paper fixed on the school door; and no candidate shall be admitted to his degree unless he pass the said examination to the satisfaction of the examiners.

No student shall have his name placed in any of the Honour Classes if more than ten terms have passed after his first term of residence, unless he has obtained permission to be a candidate for honours from the Syndicate appointed to examine into the cases of applicants for permission to become candidates for honours after they have degraded.

There is an additional examination for the ordinary degree of LL.B. in the Easter Term, which commences on the Tuesday before the end of the first two-thirds of the term. It is open to all law students who have kept eight terms at least, and the names of those who pass the examination are arranged alphabetically in one class.

It was ordered, by Grace of the Senate, on May 20, 1858, that students who have obtained honours in the Mathematical or Classical Tripos, and have thereby become entitled to the degree of Bachelor of Arts, or who, having passed the ordinary examination for the degree of B.A., have afterwards obtained honours in the Classical, or Moral Sciences, or