THE UNIVERSITY SENATE.
[Press Special Wire.] Dunedin, March 17. The committee appointed to consider the question of degrees in law recommended the adoption of the following regulations amending the regulation specifying the terms to he kept and examinations to be passed for obtaining the degrees of Bachelor and Doctor of Laws 1. Candidates for the degree of Bachelor of Laws shall subsequently to their matriculation complete a term of not less than four years. Carried. 2. Candidates for the degree of Bachelor of Law shall pass three University examinations, one at the end of their second year, the subjects of which shall be—(l) Latin language and literature, (2) English language and literature, (3) Jurisprudence and constitutional history. The second examination at the end of their third year, the subjects of which shall be —(1) -Roman law, (2) English law; on (a) personal rights, (b) rights of property, (c), rights in private relations. The third examination, at the end of their fourth year, the subjects of which shall be —(1) international law, (2) English law ; on (a) public rights, (£) wrongs, civil and criminal. Carried. 3. The first examination prescribed in section 2 shall be the same as for the B.A. degree. Carried. 4. Candidates for the degree of Bachelor of Laws, who shall have attained the degree of B.A. or M.A., either after examination or ad eundem, may proceed to the degree of Bachelor of Laws by passing an examination in jurisprudence and constitutional history, and by passing the second and third examinations prescribed in section 2, provided tuat any such graduate in arts may at his option take the second and third examination together; and provided further that any such graduate in arts who shall produce satisfactory evidence of having already in his arts course passed the examination in jurisprudence or in constitutional history of the Univertity of New Zealand, or of any University recognised thereby, shall be excused by the Chancellor from examination in one or both of those subjects. Carried. Section 5 was struck out, and sections 6 and 7 allowed to stand with simply the alteration to sections 5 and 8.
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Globe, Volume XX, Issue 1584, 18 March 1879, Page 3
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