NEW JERSEY DECISIONS. 1790-1909. Complete sets of New Jersey Reports (down to 1909) consist of: New Jersey Law, 74 vols., 1790-1909. New Jersey Equity, 71 vols., 1830-1909. The Atlantic Reporter, 71 vols., contains all decisions of New Jersey subsequent to 47 Law and 40 Equity. It also contains all decisions for the last 24 years of Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Maryland, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and Vermont. 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. The Atlantic Reporter includes upward of 2,500 decisions that have not been and will not be published in the State Reports.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. New Mexico. 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 territory, 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 under oath, stating the time and place of his birth, and his place 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. An average valuation of 50 per cent. on all the questions propounded is necessary to entitle the candidate to admission. 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 actively engaged in the practice of his profession for three years next preceding his application, he shall be licensed here without examination. Miscellaneous. Examinations shall be held on the first day of each regular term of the Supreme Court and at such other times as the court may from time to time designate. The district courts shall have power to issue to any proper 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. Attorneys who have been admitted to practice while bona fide residents of this territory shall not be precluded from practicing in any of the courts of the territory by reason of their subsequent removal from the territory. Source of Rules. Sup. Ct. Rules in force November 1, 1903. NEW MEXICO DECISIONS. 1852 to 1909. A complete set of New Mexico Reports (down to 1909) consists of 12 vols. All decisions subsequent to vol. 2 are reported in the Pacific Reporter, 97 vols. The set also contains all de cisions for the last 26 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. New York. Citizenship-Age-Character. The applicant for admission to practice shall prove to the board of examiners that he is a citizen of the United States, has been an actual resident of this state for 6 months immediately preceding his application, and is 21 years of age, and shall offer to the Supreme Court evidence of good moral character, which last must be shown by the affidavits of two reputable persons of the town or city in which he resides, one of whom must be a practicing attorney of the Supreme Court. He shall also show that he has not been examined and refused admission to practice within 3 months immediately preceding. General Education. Those applicants who are not graduates of colleges of good standing, or attorneys admitted in other states, before entering upon the clerkship or attendance at a law school as prescribed below, shall undergo an examination under the authority of the State University in English, three years; Mathematics, two years; Latin, two years; Science, one year; History, two years; or in their substantial 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 |