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 addressed to the court in general term, and shall be referred by the clerk to the committee on examination. Each application 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. Before examination a fee of $10 shall be paid to the chairman or secretary of the committee on examination. In case of failure, a fee of $5 shall be required for each additional examination. 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, while a nonresident of the District of Columbia, 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 attor neys 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 Supreme 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 December, 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. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA DECISIONS. 1801 to 1909. There are two series of Reports in the District of Columbia, viz.: District of Columbia Reports, 21 vols. (1801-1893). District of Columbia Appeal Cases, 31 vols. (18931909). The first series cover the decisions of the United States Circuit Court of the District of Columbia and the Supreme Court of that District down to 1893 With vol. 21, the reports of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia were discontinued. the appellate jurisdiction theretofore exercised by that court being transferred to a new court, styled the "Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia," whose decisions are reported under the caption, "Appeal Cases, District of Columbia," cited "App. D. C." There are 31 vols. of this series to date, vol. 1 joining on to vol. 21 D. C. Rep. Age-Character. Florida. The applicant for admission to the bar in this state must be 21 years of age and of good moral character. Preliminary Study. All applicants for admission to the bar must have studied the following named law books or their equivalents: Blackstone's Commentaries, or Andrews on American Law combined with Holmes' Lectures on Common Law; Broom's Legal Maxims, or W. T. Hughes on Procedure; Bispham's Principles of Equity; Eaton on Equity; Story's, Van Zile's, or Fletcher's Equity Pleading and Practice; Shipman on Equity Pleading; Stephen, Gould, Shipman, or McKelvey on Common-Law Pleading; Morawetz, Clark, or Cook on Corporations; Moore or Hutchinson on Carriers; Bishop's, May's, or Clark's Criminal Law, or Hughes' Criminal Law and Procedure; Weeks on Attorneys at Law or Sharswood's Legal Ethics; Daniel on Negotiable Instruments, or Eaton & Gilbert on Commercial Paper, or Bigelow on the Law of Bills, Notes and Checks; Norton on Bills and Notes, Cooley's Constitutional Limitations; Clark or Bishop on Contracts; Thayer's Preliminary Treatise on Evidence, or Greenleaf on Evidence (vol. 1), or Reynolds on Evidence; McKelvey on Evidence; Schouler's Domestic Relations; Tiffany on Domestic Relations; Schouler on Executors and Administrators, or Woerner's American Law of Administration; Croswell on Executors and Administrators; Maupin on Marketable Titles to Real Estate (2d Ed.); Cooley or Pollock on Torts; Hale on Torts; Schouler, Underhill, or Rood on Wills; Gardner on Wills; The Constitutions of the United States and of Florida; Florida Decisions upon the Constitution of Florida; General Statutes of Florida; Rules of Practice of the Circuit and Supreme Courts of Florida. Examination-Regulations-Scope-Fee. If applicant's qualifications as to age and good moral character are sufficient, he shall enter upon an examination, based on the course of study above prescribed, before the Supreme Court. Examinations are in writing, but may be supplemented by oral questions. A minimum average of 75 per cent. on both written and oral questions is required in order to entitle applicant to admission. In case of success, the candidate shall pay to the clerk a fee of $5 for a certificate of admission. Miscellaneous. Examinations are held in the Supreme Court rooms on the first three days of every semiannual term of the court. Applications must be filed with the clerk at least ten days before the beginning of the term at which he intends to apply for admission, and must contain statements regarding the applicant's age, place of residence, the length of time he has studied law, and the law books he has read, together with the names of three reputable citizens of the community in which applicant lives, who are not related to him by blood or marriage. Power to admit to practice is vested solely in the Supreme Court. Source of Rules. Laws 1907, p. 136; Sup. Ct. Rules, June, 1907. FLORIDA DECISIONS. 1846 to 1909. A complete set of Florida Reports (down to 1909) consists of 55 vols. All decisions in Florida, vols. 23 to 55, and many other decisions not yet published in the State Reports, are reported in full in the Southern Reporter, 48 vols. The set also contains all decisions for the last 22 years of Alabama, Louisiana, and Mississippi. 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