Vermont. Citizenship-Age-Character. Citizenship, full age, and good moral character are necessary qualifications of one seeking admission to the bar of this state. General Education. The applicant's preliminary education, other than legal, shall be equivalent to that received in a high school, and shall be proved to the satisfaction of the board before the examination. Term of Study. The candidate shall have studied in the office of a practicing attorney of the Supreme Court within this state for three years preceding his application, except that in lieu thereof not more than two years of such time may have been spent in a reputable law school. In the discretion of the court one year of such study may have been pursued in the office of an attorney outside the state, but the last year shall have been within the state. Examination-Regulations-Scope. Each candidate shall file with the clerk of the Supreme Court a petition for admission, stating his age, residence, and the time, place, and circumstances of his term of study, and an affidavit of an attorney of the court stating that the petitioner has actually pursued his studies as required, and accompanied also by the certificates of three attorneys vouching for his character. The examination shall be partly in writing and partly oral, and shall include questions upon at least 12 of the subjects to be selected from those of Common-Law Pleading and Practice, Evidence, Domestic Relations, Personal Property, Contracts (including Sales, Bailments, and Negotiable Instru ments), Agency, Partnership, Corporations, Real Property (including Mortgages and Landlord and Tenant), Wills and Probate Law, Equity Jurisprudence, Pleading and Practice in Chancery, Torts, Criminal Law, the Important Provisions of Vermont Statute Law (especially those modifying the Common Law, and those relating to Practice, Conveyancing, and Probate), the Constitutions of this state and the United States, and Legal Ethics. If satisfactory to the board, it will so report to the Supreme Court, and a license shall be granted and the prescribed oath administered. Admission of Attorneys from Other Jurisdictions. An attorney admitted in another state shall be admitted in this upon proof of citizenship, age, good moral character, admission in such state, practice of his profession for one year, and residence in this state for six months next preceding his application. Miscellaneous. Examinations are held at Montpelier the fourth Tuesday in October. Applications must be filed with the clerk of the Supreme Court at least 10 days before this day. Source of Rules. Pub. St. 1906, §§ 1337, 1338; Sup. Ct. Rules. VERMONT DECISIONS. 1789 to 1909. A complete set of Vermont Reports (down to 1909) con sists of: N. Chipman, 1 vol. D. Chipman, 2 vols. Tyler, 2 vols. Brayton, 1 vol. Aikens, 2 vols. Vermont, 80 vols. We have reprinted the Vermont Reports, vols. 1 to 58 and 8 preliminaries, annotated them thoroughly, and bound them in 17 books. Vols. 59 to 65 Vermont are out of print and scarce. The only convenient method of obtaining the decisions in these volumes is through the Atlantic Reporter, 71 vols., which contains all Vermont decisions subsequent to vol. 57. The set also contains all decisions for the last 24 years of Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Maryland, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Rhode Island, including some 2,500 decisions which have been omitted from the State Reports. The tables of cross-citations furnished with the Atlantic make it a simple matter to find the cases, even if cited by the State Report page and volume. Write for price and detailed description. WEST PUBLISHING Co., St. Paul, Minn. Virginia. Citizenship-Age-Character. Residence within the state for the six months next preceding the date of application, the age of majority, and good moral character are qualifications required of each applicant for admission in this state. Examination-Regulations-Scope-Fee. Every person applying for a license to practice law must first have obtained from the circuit court of the county or the corporation court of the city wherein he resides a certificate that he is a person of good morals, 21 years of age, and has resided in this state the preceding six months. Application for such certificate shall be filed with the clerk of such circuit or corporation court ten days before the day on which the court. will be asked to grant the said certificate, and must be accompanied by the written recommendation of two members of the bar of his judicial circuit, who are practicing attorneys in this court, as to his good moral character. On or before the 1st day in November, if the applicant desires to be examined at Richmond, and on or before the 15th day of June, if the applicant desires to be examined at Wytheville, he shall file with the secretary of the court at that place such certificate of his circuit or corporation court, and also a certified copy of his application therefor and of the recommendations which accompanied the same, together with a fee of $2.50. The test of the candidate's legal qualifications shall be conducted in writing by three or more justices of the Supreme Court of Appeals upon the subjects of Real and Personal Property, Domestic Relations, Contracts, Agency, Partnership, Negotiable Instru ments, Insurance, Corporations, Wills and Personal Representatives, Torts, Equity Jurisprudence, Pleading and Practice at Law and in Equity, Evidence, Crimes and Criminal Procedure, Powers and Duties of the Corporation Commission, and the Code of Virginia. The prescribed oath shall be taken if this examination is passed satisfactorily. Admission of Attorneys from Other Jurisdictions. Any person authorized to practice in the courts of another state may be licensed in this state, without examination, upon furnishing a certificate from the court of last resort in such state or territory that he has practiced law therein for three or more years and is of good moral character. Such certificate much be signed by the Chief Justice of said court, whose signature must be attested by the clerk of said court, and under the seal thereof. In addition, he shall furnish a certificate from two practicing attorneys in such state or territory as to applicant's good moral character, which certificate shall be attested by the said clerk in like manner. Miscellaneous. Examinations will be held at Richmond on the first Friday after the second Tuesday in November, and at Wytheville on the third Wednesday after the first Tuesday in June. No other examinations will be held. Any person over 19 and under 21 years of age, who has studied law for a period of two years in a law school of this state, or in the office of a practicing attorney of this state, and who is otherwise qualified, may take the state bar examination; provided, that no certificate shall issue to such person until he shall have attained the age of 21 years, and provided, further, that in such case the application must state the exact date when the applicant will become 21 years of age. Source of Rules. Code 1904, §§ 3191-3193; Rules Sup. Ct. App. Sept. 1908. |