DELAWARE DECISIONS.

1814 to 1907.

A complete set of Delaware Reports (down to 1907) consists of:

Harrington, 5 vols.

Houston, 9 vols.

Marvel, 2 vols.

Pennewill, 4 vols.

Delaware Chancery, 7 vols.

Houston's Criminal, 1 vol.

Delaware Reports are partly out of print, and are scarce and expensive. The Atlantic Reporter, 65 vols., contains all decisions in Houston, vols. 7 to 9, Marvel, 2 vols., Pennewill, 4 vols., Delaware Chancery, vols. 6 and 7, and also all decisions for the past 22 years from Connecticut, Maine, Maryland, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and Vermont. Tables of cross-citations make the cases perfectly available, however cited. We will furnish full information and price on request.

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District of Columbia.

Character.

No applicant shall be admitted to examination for admission to the Supreme Court until he shall have offered proof of good moral character.

Term of Study.

Satisfactory proof shall also be presented that the candidate has studied law under the direction of a competent attorney for at least three years, provided that diligent study in a law school shall, to the extent thereof, be computed as a part thereof, and an academic year in such school shall be considered a year within the meaning of the rule.

Examination-Regulations-Scope-Fee.

Applications shall be made in writing to the court, and shall contain the name, age, and residence of the candidate, the time and place of preliminary study, and duration of the same, and the law books he has read. A fee of $5 shall accompany each application, which fee shall entitle the candidate to a second examination, if he fails in the first; but, if the board favors admission, the oath is administered and license given.

Admission of Attorneys from Other Jurisdictions.

The petition of one admitted to the bar in the Supreme Court of the United States, or of a state or territory, shall state the name of the court granting such license, the time of admission, and when and where and for what period he studied law. If now a bona fide resident of the District of Columbia, one admitted in another jurisdiction may be admitted here without examination, in the discretion of the court, if proof of good morals is given and a like courtesy is extended in that jurisdiction to attorneys of this District.

Miscellaneous.

To entitle a candidate to admission to the Court of Appeals, he shall offer satisfactory proof of former admission to the Su

preme Court of the United States, or to the highest court of one of the United States, or to the Supreme Court of this District, and also proof of good standing in that court, and shall pay to the clerk issuing the license a fee of $5.

Examinations are held in June and November, and applications should be addressed to the court in general term, care of the clerk of the court.

Source of Rules.

Rules Sup. Ct. Oct. 31, 1899; Rules Ct. of App.

Age-Character.

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Before admission to practice will be granted in this state, the applicant shall offer satisfactory evidence to the judge of the circuit court to whom he applies that he is 21 years of age and of good moral character.

Examination-Regulations-Scope-Fee.

If the foregoing general qualifications are sufficient, the candidate shall enter upon an examination of legal qualifications before the judge of the circuit court and at least two members of the bar, to be selected by said judge, and shall receive from them, if his examination has been favorable, a certificate and license to practice in the circuit and inferior courts of the state. Such examination shall be held in open court, at some regular or special term of said court. This certificate shall be recorded by the clerk of the court at the expense of the candidate. The prescribed oath shall follow.

Admission of Attorneys from Other Jurisdictions.

Attorneys admitted to practice in one of the Circuit Courts of the United States, or in a Supreme Court of one of the United States, shall be admitted to practice in the circuit courts of this state upon tendering the license or certificate of his admission to practice in said courts.

Admission on Diploma.

Any graduate of the law department of the John B. Stetson University, who has taken the full prescribed course therein of not less than two years, may be admitted to practice in all the courts of this state without examination, upon the production of a diploma issued by the board of trustees of said university, and satisfactory evidence that he is 21 years of age and of good moral character. Prescribed oath shall be taken.

Admission to Practice in the Supreme Court.

Any attorney producing satisfactory evidence of having been admitted to practice in some circuit court of this state, or in one of the Circuit Courts of the United States, or in the Supreme Court of one of the United States, and that he sustains a fair private and professional character, may be admitted to practice in the Supreme Court upon taking the prescribed oath.

Source of Rules.

Gen. St. 1906, §§ 1348-1350; Rules Sup. Ct. adopted March 2, 1905.

FLORIDA DECISIONS.

1846 to 1907.

A complete set of Florida Reports (down to 1907) consists of 50 vols. All decisions in Florida, vols. 23 to 50, and many other decisions not yet published in the State Reports, are reported in full in the Southern Reporter, 43 vols. The set also contains all decisions for the last 20 years of Alabama, Louisiana, and Mississippi. Tables of cross-citations make the cases perfectly available, however cited. Write us for price and detailed information.

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