Error to the circuit court of 5665. The Fostoria Stave & Barrel Co. v. 5677. Allen Castor et al. v. Farmers' Bank of The Western Assurance Co of Toronto. Error Loudonville, O. to the circuit court of Seneca county. McCauley Ashland county. & Weller for plaintiff; Doyle & Lewis and ƒ. | tiff. F. Brown for defendant. 5666. The Fostoria Stave & Barrel Co. v. The Trans-Atlantic I ire Ins. Co. Error to the circuit court of Seneca county McCauley & Weller for plaintiff; Doyle & Lewis and J. F. Brown for defendant. 5667. The Fostoria Stave & Barrel Co. v. The Germania Fire Ins. Co. of New York. Error to the circuit court of Seneca county. McCauley & Weller for plaintiff; Doyle & Lewis and J. F. Brown for defendant. 5668. John Lindt v. Mary P. S. Frazer. Error to the circuit court of Cuyahoga county. George A. Groot for plaintiff. 5678. Sarah J. Ream et al. v. Charles J. Wolls. Error to the circuit cour: of Franklin county. E. L. DeWitt, for plaintiff. Richards & Sullivan, for defendant. Evening Law College. BE EARNING WHILE LEARNING. Baldwin University Law School 5669. John Lindt v. William P. Caley. Error to the circuit court of Cuyahoga county. Geo. Will open in Case Library Building, Cleveland, A. Groot for plaintiff. 5670. In the matter of the assignment of William H. Sloan. Error to the circuit court of Hamilton county. A. M. Warner for plaintiff; William R. Collins for defendant. 5671. Lucian Lindsey, Admr., v. The Ohio Pipe Co. Error to the circuit court of Franklin county. E. E. Corwin and M. B. Earnhart, for plaintiff. Harrison, Olds & Henderson, for defendant. 5672. Edward Snyder et al., Exrs., v. Henry D. Snyder. Error to the circuit court of Holmes county. McClun & Smyser and George W. Sharp, for plaintiffs. Reed & Hanna, for defendant. 5673. The Elyria Gas & Water Co., a taxpayer, etc., v. The City of Elyria. Error to the circuit court of Lorain county. E. G Johnson, for plaintiff. Lee Strouh, for defendant. 5674. The C., H. V. & T. Ry. Co. v. Annie E. Jones, Admx. Error to the circuit court of Franklin county. C. O. Hunter, for plaintiff. M. B. Earnhart, for defendant. September 22nd, 1897. Evening Sessions from 7:00 till 9:00 O'clock. TUITION, $50.00 PER YEAR. Three years course as thorough as in `any' law college. Degree of LL.B. Conferred. Members of Faculty: -Dr. M. F. Warner, President; Hon. C. S Bentley, Dean, late Judge of the 6th District Ohio Circuit Court; Hon. H J. Caldwell, Judge of the 8th District Ohio Circuit Court; Hon. A. W. Lamson, Judge of Court of Common Pleas, Cuyahoga County, Ohio; Hon. E. J. Blandin, late Judge of Court of Common Pleas, Cuyahoga County, Ohio; Arthur E. Rowley. Ph B., and Wils Vickery, LL.B. For full information and catalogue, call 5675., American Express Co. v. Aultman, WILLIS VICKERY, SECY., 5676. Edward Quigley v. Michael H. Mur- 709 The Cuyahoga phy. Error to the circuit court of Lucas connty. Hurd, Brumback & Thatcher, for plaintiff. Parks & Van Campen, for defendant. Cleveland, Ohio. 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Lawrence Maxwell, of Cincinnati, before the Ohio State Bar Association, Putin Bay, July 21, 1897.] One of the purposes of the Association, declared in its constitution, is "to en Decisions can be had at 82.50 per volume, if bound in Courage thorough, liberal legal educa full sheep, or $2.25 per volume in half sheep. Bound volumes of Vol. 1, OHIO LEGAL NEWS (Toledo Legal News) will be furnished at $2.00 per volume. Bound copies of Vols. 1, 2 or 3 of Ohio Decisions, or of the LEGAL NEWS will be sent in exchange for the advance sheets, at $1.00 per volume in full sheep or 75 cents in half sheep. tion." Other objects are indeed declared, as if they were of prime importance. We propose to advance the Science of jurisprudence, to promote reform in the law, to facilitate the administration of justice and to uphold integrity, honor and courtesy in the profession. But if we shall succeed in organizing a thoroughly and liberally educated bar, all the rest follows, and our other reforms are accomplished at one blow. With such a bar the science of jurisprudence advances itself, the administration of justice cannot be otherwise than efficient, and honor, integrity and courtesy in the profession are matters of course. It has seemed to me therefore, that one of the most important, if not the most important, and far-reaching purpose of the Association is, after all, that which iners, and of taking precautions against commits it to the encouragement of a false certificates of study on the part of high standard of legal education. applicants. It was pointed out, that When the Association was organized under a somewhat similar system in New there was indeed great need of its helpful York, candidates were required to file a influence in this direction. The road to certificate, not ex post facto, as with us, the bar in this state was then through but contemporaneously with the comthe district courts. There was no uni- mencement of their period of study of form standard, and in most counties, no law, that the board of law examiners in standard at all. Practically every ap that state was composed of three memplicant was admitted. No precaution was bers only, each appointed for three years, taken to exclude any, no matter how in- with the inducement to service implied adequately prepared for the responsible in a substantial salary ($2,000 per an duties of a lawyer. We had forfeited num.) You have heard the report of our right to be called a learned profes- your committee. It is not my purpose sion. Much has been accomplished in to trespass on the details of the ground. the meantime, largely through the in- I am content to leave the subject to such fluence of this Association, but there re-regulations as the wisdom and experience mains much more to be done. No one of the supreme court, enlightened by the can deny the importance of the subject. The bench comes from the bar, and the administration of justice is just what the bench and bar together make it. An educated bar is, therefore, the root of the whole matter. sugges.ions of the bar, may provide. We are bound to assume that the court will see to it that the statute is faithfully executed, and that all proper and responsible precautions will be taken to prevent admission to the examination of any who have not devoted to the study of law the full period of three years required by the statute. But while the prescription of a fixed period of study is an important step towards securing proper legal education, it does not insure it. And as much depends upon the place and method of study as on the time. Three years of study under certain conditions, may not signify as much as two years under others. And under any conditions the preliminary training and general education of the student is a factor of the greatest consequence. The only test to which the court or its committee of examiners can subject the applicant is a public examination; but that at the best, is an imperfect test, which may be passed by men who are far from being thoroughly and liberally educated. Up to this time in Ohio, we have secured two things, in the cause of legal education. In the first place, the positive requirement imposed by an act of the legislature that every applicant for admission to the bar shall have studied law regularly and attentively during the period of three years, previous to his application, and on top of that, a provision which directs the supreme court to subject the applicant to the test of an examination, section 558-560, Revised Statutes. In other words, admission to the bar in Ohio is placed where it should be, under the absolute control of the supreme judicial tribunal of the state, subject to the condition, which even that court can not dispense with, that the applicant shall have studied law for three years. The statute contemplates, and the necessities of the case obviously require that the court shall administer its Speaking on this point, the Lord Chief trust through a committee of examiners. Justice of England, in an address deThe character of that committee is of the livered at the opening of the course of highest importance, for the standard, the Inns of Court, in 1895, complained after all, will be practically whatever that it was quite possible for a man of the administration of the committee ordinary capacity, without any prolonged makes it. At the last meeting of the Association a resolution was passed suggesting to the court the expediency of securing greater permanency in the committee of exam study, or real knowledge of the law, to pass their examinations and to gain admission to the English bar, provided he had the guidance of a skillful crammer for a comparatively short time. And that is a common experience. Ability sort is required; the choice being limited to pass an examination does not neces- to the tuition of a practicing attorney sarily imply thorough education. and that of a law school. But between these two, what room is is there for selection? The tuition of a practicing attorney is a myth There is no such thing. While, therefore, we may congratulate ourselves on a progress which has secured as a condition for admission to the bar, in place of nothing at all, a statutory requirement of three years' And if the requirement of the statute professional study, to be followed is to be complied with at all, the tuition by a public examination under the which it enjoins must be sought in a supervision of the supreme court, we law school. It can be found nowhere are still called upon to relax no efforts if else. The old system of office apprenwe expect to realize our aspirations for a ticeship is not to be invoked. It was an thoroughly and liberally educated bar. incident of the dark age of the law, of We must stand on guard to see that the the period of professional lethargy which statute is faithfully and liberally exe- enforced no standard for admission to cuted, and above all, we must stimulate the bar, and wholly ignored the position and cultivate in the profession an ever of the law as a learned profession. If growing sentiment in favor of real edu- the law is really a science, it must be cation of the best and highest kind. treated as a science and employ the Without such a sentiment, general and means and methods of instruction recogwide spread, statutes and rules will not nized as efficient in every other departaccomplish their purpose. It is with ment of learning. The argument to that view that I propose to avail myself support the systematic training of a law of the time allotted to me to-day to present to the Association some considerations affecting the functions of the University Law School as an instrumentality for legal education in this state. school as the only adequate and proper preparation for the practice of law, is the same argument that recognizes the necessity of schools of medicine, schools of technology, schools of theology, schools generally. In Our statute provides that an applicant for admission to the bar, must have In all the countries of continental Eustudied law regularly and attentively rope, the University law school is the during the period of three years. This only avenue to the bar. No other prepclearly means that he must have devoted aration is recognized; and this means the period of three years, wholly and ex- that every lawyer in these countries clusively to the study of law. Desultory must first have the general preparation study, as an incident of some other occu- of a classical education, followed by a pation, is obviously not a compliance course of professional study in the Uniwith the statute. We are not called versity, which in no country covers a upon to consider the wisdom or expedi- shorter period than three years. ency of requiring a three years' course those countries the bar is, indeed, a of study. That question has been set- learned profession and the law a science. tled by the legislature, and we are able In England, where barristers constito start with the premise involved in tute a separate class from attorneys and their positive mandate, that the full per solicitors, the requirements for admission iod of three years shall be devoted wholly to the two branches of the profession, and exclusively to the study of law, by are different. The admission of attorevery one who aspires to assume the re-neys and solicitors, is placed by act of sponsibilities of the profession in this parliament, under the control of the sostate. The time of study is definitely ciety of attorneys and solicitors, now fixed; the only conditions left open are known as the Incorporated Law Society. the place and method of study. On that Its regulations require the candidate, besubject, the statute gives. the option of fore entering upon the study of law, to tuition from a practicing attorney, or submit to a preliminary examination regular attendance at a law school. It about the equivalent of that for graduawill be observed that isolated study is tion from an American high school. The not recognized, but "tuition" of some applicant then enters the office of an at |