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The Atlantic Reporter includes upward of 2,500 decisions that have not been and will not be published in the State Reports. Nearly 1,000 of the omitted decisions are from New Jersey. Regarding the value of these decisions as precedents, we quote from the report of the committee on reporting, and digesting to the American Bar Association, 1898: "In New Jersey the judges and reporters have excluded or omitted from the reports 667 cases which have been published in the first 33 vols. of the Atlantic Reporter. *

Some of

them are decisions which have proved to be the controlling authorities, and have become leading cases in some branch of law or practice." In view of this statement from such an impartial authority, can you afford to practice without all of these decisions? Write for price and full information.

WEST PUBLISHING Co., St. Paul, Minn.

Citizenship-Age-Character.

In applying for a license in this state, the petitioner shall be a citizen of the United States, or shall have declared his bona fide intention of becoming such, and shall be a resident of this state, 21 years of age, and of good moral character.

Term of Study.

Before attempting the examination the applicant shall certify to the court in his petition where and for how long he has studied law and the books he has read. If a law school graduate, the petition should so state; if not, he must offer the certificates of reputable attorneys that he has pursued his study of law for a period of two years.

Examination-Regulations-Scope-Fee.

The applicant shall file with the clerk of the supreme court a petition stating the time and place of his birth, and his piace of residence during the past five years, accompanied by the certificate of some reputable person vouching for his character. It shall contain, too, a statement of all the facts material to his preparatory work. The application shall be referred to the board of examiners, consisting of five members of the bar of said court, who shall in open court examine the applicants, partly in writing and partly by oral questions, upon the subjects of real and personal property, contracts, partnership, negotiable instruments, agency, principal and surety, executors and administrators, bailments, corporations, personal rights, domestic relations, the principles of constitutional law, wills, equity jurisprudence, pleading, practice, evidence, and criminal law. A fee of $5 shall be paid the clerk issuing the license.

Admission of Attorneys from Other Jurisdictions.

Any person admitted in another state shall offer evidence of such admission, the length of time he has been engaged in

active practice, and his standing in said court, when applying for admission in this state. If such applicant has been engaged in the practice of his profession for three years next preceding his application, he shall be licensed here without examination.

Miscellaneous.

The district courts shall have power to issue to any prop. er person who purposes applying for admission a temporary license, to expire on the first day of the term of the supreme court next after the issuance of such license.

Source of Rules.

Comp. Laws 1897, § 1040a; Sup. Ct. Rules, approved 1897.

NEW MEXICO DECISIONS.

1852 to 1904.

A complete set of New Mexico Reports (down to 1903) consists of II vols. All decisions subsequent to vol. 2 are reported in the Pacific Reporter. 74 vols. The set also contains all decisions for the last 21 years of California, Colorado, Idaho, Kansas, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming, and all of Arizona and Oklahoma. The tables of cross-citations furnished with the Pacific make it a simple matter to find the cases, even if cited by the State Report page and volume. The limited number of local decisions. increases the necessity of using decisions from other states as precedents. The Pacific Reporter, containing, as it does, the decisions of the neighboring states, is naturally the medium which furnishes the decisions desired. It is so generally used and cited in New Mexico that it may be regarded as indispensable. Write for price and complete information.

WEST PUBLISHING Co., St. Paul, Minn.

Citizenship-Age-Character.

The applicant for admission to practice shall, at least 15 days before the examination, prove to the board of examiners that he is a citizen of the United States, has been a resident of this state for 6 months, and is 21 years of age, and shall offer to the supreme court evidence of good moral character.

General Education.

Those applicants who are not graduates of colleges of good standing, or attorneys admitted in other states, shall undergo an examination under the authority of the State University in the subjects of English composition, advanced English, first-year Latin, arithmetic, algebra, geometry, United States and English history, civics, and economics, or in their equivalents.

Term of Study.

The candidate shall prove to the satisfaction of the board of examiners, which consists of three members of the bar, that he has pursued the study of law for three years, except that, if the student is a graduate of any college or university, the period of study may be two years, and except, also, that persons admitted in another state, who have practiced in that state for one year since their admission, shall be permitted to enter upon the examination after one year of study in this state. The period of this preliminary study may be spent in the office of a practicing attorney of this state after the age of 18 has been reached, or after such age by attending a law school of sufficient standing, or partly under one of these conditions and partly under the other; and the computation of the time so spent in the office of an attorney shall commence at the filing with the clerk of the court of appeals of such attorney's certificate announcing the clerkship.

Examination-Regulations-Scope-Fee.

The petition for examination shall be entitled in the department in which the candidate wishes to be admitted; but he may be examined in any department, whether a resident thereof or not. The test may be oral or written, or partly oral and partly written, and shall embrace questions on the subjects selected by the board. An examination fee of $10 shall accompany each application, and shall entitle the candidate to three examinations, and no more. If the board favors admission, it will so signify to the supreme court; but, if not, the rejected applicant shall not be allowed re-examination for three months.

Admission of Attorneys from Other Jurisdictions.

An attorney who has been admitted to practice in another state, and who has practiced therein for one year, shall offer, by his affidavit, proof of such admission and pursuit of his profession, and of the prescribed period of study for one year in this state, and shall then be permitted to undergo the examination of the board. One who has been admitted to practice in the highest court of law in another jurisdiction and has practiced his profession there for a period of three years shall be admitted here without examination, after furnishing satisfactory evidence of character and qualifications. An attorney residing in an adjoining state, upon compliance with above rule, may, without change of residence, be admitted upon proof that he intends to maintain an office in the

state.

Miscellaneous.

Examinations must be held in each department at least twice in each year-between the 10th of June and 20th of July, and at some time in January.

Race or sex shall offer no bar to admission in this state. Source of Rules.

Birdseye St. (2d Ed.) pp. 167, 168, §§ 2-6; Sup. Ct. Rules (26 N. E. iv.; 33 N. E. vi.-viii.; 48 N. E. vi.-viii.).

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