COURT RULES. COURT OF APPEALS OF MARYLAND.1 Regulating Admissions to the Bar. FIRST. The petitioner shall file with his petition a All applications for admission to the bar certificate from the member of the bar in shall be made by petition to the court of ap-whose office he studied, or if the petitioner peals. The petition shall be under oath, and shall state: (a) The full name, age, residence, and place of birth of the applicant. (b) If the petitioner shall apply for admission as a member of the bar of another state or of the courts of the United States pursuant to section 6 of chapter 139 of the act of 1898, the petitioner shall state that he is now an actual resident of this state, and shall further name the state in which and the court by which the petitioner was admitted to the bar, and shall also state that the petitioner has, for at least five years before filing his said petition, been engaged as a practitioner or teacher of the law or a judge in such state. The petitioner shall file with his petition a copy of his license to practice, duly certified, or a copy of the record of the court in which he was so admitted, certified as required by law for the authentication of the records of courts of other states when offered as evi dence in the courts of this state. The petitioner shall also file a certificate of a judge of the state in which he was so ad mitted or a certificate from two members of the bar of this state certifying how long they have known the applicant, and that he is not a person of bad or dissolute habits, but of good moral character, and that he has never, so far as known to the person or persons certifying, been guilty of any criminal or disgraceful conduct, and that he is, at the time of such certificate, a member of the bar in good standing, and that he has been actively engaged as practitioner or teacher of the law or judge in such state for at least five years before the filing of his said petition. (c) If the petitioner shall not apply for admission as a member of the bar of another state, the petition shall further state: That the petitioner has studied law in the office of a member of the bar of this state or in a law school of the United States for at least two years, and that while so studying the law he diligently pursued the course of study prescribed in rule 5. studied in a law school, a certificate from the president, dean or any instructor of such school, certifying that the petitioner has pur sued under his direction for at least two years the course of study prescribed in rule 5, and that the petitioner is not a person of bad or dissolute habits but of good moral character, and that he has never, so far as known to the person certifying, been guilty of any criminal or disgraceful conduct. The certificates hereinbefore provided for shall be prima facie evidence of the facts stated in them. The petition shall be filed at least ten days before the day fixed for an examination by the state board of law examiners. SECOND. All applicants for admission to the bar, including members of the bar of other states, shall pay a fee of twenty-five dollars, at the time of filing their petition. No petition will be considered or referred to the state board of law examiners until said fee is paid to the treasurer of the said board. THIRD. All applications for admission to the bar, except applications from members of the bar of other states, shall be referred to the state board of law examiners, who shall examine the applicants as to their qualifications to practice law. FOURTH. The board of law examiners shall meet twice annually, once in the month of June, and once in the month of November, at such place in the state of Maryland as said board may determine, for the purpose of conducting such examination. Thirty days' public notice of the time and place of meeting shall be given. The said board shall hold such other meetings for the purpose of conducting examinations at such time and place and on such no 1 Adopted in pursuance of the Act of 1898, c. 139.- tice as may be directed by the court of appeals from time to time by special orders. FIFTH. All examinations shall be in writing. All applicants shall be examined by said board on each of the following subjects: (1) Elementary law; (2) contracts; (3) torts; (4) wills and the administration of estates; (5) corporations; (6) evidence; (7) equity; (8) real property; (9) personal property; (10) criminal law; (11) domestic relations; (12) pleading and practice at law and in equity (at common law and in Maryland); (13) constitutional law; (14) international law; (15) legal ethics. The board may, at its election, in addition to the written examination, examine orally any or all of the applicants. The state board of law examiners may prescribe rules for the conduct of examinations, provided that the applicants shall be allowed at least six hours in which to prepare the answers in the written examination. SIXTH. The state board of law examiners shall, as soon as practicable after such examination, report to the court of appeals all their proceedings in connection with such examination. They shall file with their report a copy of the questions asked and all the replies. The report shall also state the conclusions of said board as to the qualifications of all applicants and shall recommend, in the case of each person examined, that he be or be not admitted to the bar. SEVENTH. The names and places of residence of all persons recommended by said board for admission to the bar shall be published once a week for three successive weeks in two daily newspapers published in the city of Baltimore before the day fixed for the ratification of the report of the state board of law examiners. If no exceptions are filed to the report of the board of law examiners within thirty days after their report is filed, the recommendations contained in their report shall be adopted, the action of the board ratified, and the applicants admitted or rejected as recommended by the board. If exceptions to the report of the board shall be filed, such exceptions shall be heard and decided by the court. In case an exception shall be filed to the recommendation of the board that any applicant shall be not admitted to the bar, and the exception relates to the qualification of the applicant to practice law, no new examination will be held, but the exception heard and determined on an examination of the applicant's answers to the questions asked him. If the exception relates to the moral character of the applicant, the exceptant and the applicant shall have the right to produce evidence in support of or against their exception before the court or before an examiner appointed for the purpose of taking testimony. EIGHTH. When it shall be determined by the court of appeals that an applicant is qualified to practice law and is of good moral character, an order will be passed directing that he be admitted to the bar on taking the oath required of a member of the bar by the Maryland Code of Public General Laws, article 10, section 10. NINTH. The members of the board of law examiners shall be entitled to the sum of ten dollars per day for every day actually spent in the discharge of their duties, and all their traveling and other expenses, provided the fees and expenses of said board shall not exceed the sum paid by applicants as fees. Ordered by the court of appeals of Maryland this second day of June, A. D. 1898, that the foregoing rules relating to the application for admission to the bar, be and the same are hereby adopted, subject to such alteration, amendment or revision, as may hereafter from time to time be made if deemed expedient. JAS. MCSHERRY. WM. SHEPARD BRYAN. SUPREME COURT OF RHODE ISLAND. Order of the Court. RELATING TO COLLECTION OF AL- (January 18, 1898.) refer the question of issuing summary pro- Hereafter, the process for collection of allowances made in petitions for divorce will be by execution against goods, chattels and, It is ordered that the expense of sumreal estate, which may be issued by the moning witnesses to attend before the comclerk, at any time before the hearing on the mittee appointed by the court to hear charpetition, upon affidavit of nonpayment, forges against attorneys, summoned on behalf the amount due: Provided, however, that in cases of great urgency and need the justice hearing the motion for an allowance may of the complainants, be borne by the complainants, and that the complainants be reimbursed by the state if the complaints are substantiated. Amendment of the Rules. RELATING TO COMPLAINTS AGAINST (July 16, 1898.) Complaints against members of the bar for unprofessional conduct shall be made in writing that shall set forth specifically the facts upon which the charge is based. Such complaints, when filed, will be referred to a standing committee of five members of the bar for investigation and report thereon. The court will appoint two members to serve one year, two members to serve two years and one member to serve three years, and will fill any vacancies at the expiration of such term of service, or whenever arising otherwise. The members of this committee will be excused from attendance in court when necessary to fulfill engagements previously made to attend meetings of the committee. CASES REPORTED. 520 931 Page Abbott v. Concord & M. R. R. (N. H.)..... 912 Adams, Supreme Council American Legion of Honor v. (N. H.).... 380 Addicks, City of Wilmington v. (Del. Ch.) 781 Etna Life Ins. Co. v. Smith (N. H.). 531 Etna Mut. Fire Ins. Co., Davis v. (N. H.) 521 Etna Mut. Life Ins. Co. v. Clough (N. H.) Aiello v. Montecaloo (R. I.)... Alie v. Nadeau (Me). 891 Bank Com'rs v. New Hampshire Trust Co. (N. H.) 130 Allen v. Aylesworth (N. J. Ch.). 178 Barker, Mound v. (Vt.). 346 Allen v. Bidwell (N. H.)... 295 Barnes v. Black (Pa.). 550 Allen v. Gerard (R. I.). 592 Barney's Will, In re (Vt.). 75 Allen v. Leach (Del. Ch.).... 800 Barron, Bunker v. (Me.). 372 Allen v. Stewart (Del. Ch.).. 786 Bartine, Kempton v. (N. J. Ch.).. 461 Allentown & B. Rapid-Transit Co., Old Bartlett v. La Rochelle (N. H.).. 302 Colony Trust Co. v. (Pa.).. 319 American Talcum Co., Strauss v. (N. J. Err. & App.).... Barton v. West Jersey Title & Guaranty Co. (N. J. Sup.).... 871 631 Amey v. Granite State Fire Ins. Co. (N. H.) Bass, First Presbyterian Soc. of Antrim v. (N. H.) .... 485 601 Batterson, In re (Conn.) 546 |