EXAMINATION CHRONICLE. VOL. I.-No. 12. DECEMBER, 1861. CONTENTS: Year's Subscription, 88. THE EXAMINATION QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.-For Michaelmas Term, 1861-Common Law ConveyancingEquity and Bankruptcy. [No. XIV. of Bankruptcy and the whole of Criminal Law will be given in next number. For the future all the Questions will be answered in a single number, which will be enlarged by eight pages, without any additional charge.] PAGE. 221-240 xliv LONDON: EXAMINATION CHRONICLE OFFICE, 10, OFFORD-ROAD, BARNSBURY, N. (WHERE ALL ORDERS AND COMMUNICATIONS MUST BE SENT.) Printed by TAYLOR and GREENING, Graystoke-place, Fetter-lane, London. NOTICES TO CORRESPONDENTS. Q. R. Y.-If you have Cruise's Digest, Jarman's or Davidson's Conveyancing, you would do well to read them. If not, then you should read Dart's Vendors, Coote's Mortgages, and Woodfall's Landlord and Tenant, these subjects being most likely to be useful to you in practice. We apprehend what you have read will suffice for the examination; if you think not, then read Hayes' Conveyancing and Burton's Compendium. IRENUS.-For Common Law you would find our Common Law Practice and Principles useful, or Smith's Action at Law and Broom's Commentaries on the Common Law; for Equity, Hunter's Suit in Equity and Smith's Manual; for Conveyancing, Williams' Real Property and his Personal Property, to be followed, if time, by Smith's Compendium; for Bankruptcy and Criminal Law you had better wait for some good works containing the recent alterations. C. N. We have commenced a notice of the principal enactments of the New Bankruptcy Act. We are aware that some articled clerks do not answer in bankruptcy; but we consider this very injudicious, and believe it is a principal cause of the many failures. We would, therefore, advise you to make acquaintance with the provisions of the new Act, as, by the time you go up, the examiners will expect you to be familiar with them. It is unfortunate that the Legislature did not frame an entirely new code instead of confining themselves to making additions. S. J. E. We are sorry we are obliged to postpone the publication of your Experiences and Answers until next number, when they will certainly appear, together with any continuation with which you may favour us. T. C.-It is impossible we can undertake to give instructions in the mode you mention. You should form a class in your own town, and if only four members, some good would arise, provided all were zealous and anxious to improve. You can have the First Book for 5s. 6d., free by post. LEX. We have not yet seen the portion lately issued of Jarman's Conveyancing, but will take an early opportunity of doing so, and will then notice it. There have been a few cases of decennial clerks applying for admission. As you have served the full five years you need not go up as a decennial clerk. You are better able to decide as to the best place for commencing practice. should think you would be more likely to succeed in your native town than by venturing into a place where you are altogether unknown. We MOOT POINTS. No. 40.-Heir-Divorce.-A gentleman has been twice married, and has had a son by each wife. He had been divorced from his first wife previous to the second marriage, and he remarried her on the death of the second wife, and they have now another son. In case the eldest son purchases landed property, and after attaining the age of twenty-one years dies intestate, on whom will this property devolve, supposing the father to be dead and the two brothers surviving? Would the second son as heir to the father, although only half-brother to the purchaser, exclude the third son, who is of the same blood as the eldest son -A Subsoriber. No. 41.-Statute of Limitations-Lease, non-payment of rent.-A lessee for a term of sixty years, at a rent exceeding £20, has not paid any rent to his lessor, nor to any other person for more than twenty years. His term will soon expire, and he wants to know :— 1, Whether he can he made liable to pay any arrears; 2, For any future rent during the currency of the lease; 3, For any rent, or for use and occupation after the expiration of the lease. The lessee has not given any acknowledgment of his lessor's title, and he contends that he has now a fee simple. Is he right ?—M. I. N. CORRESPONDENTS ON MOOT POINTS.-The following is the only addition to the previous lists, namely, Mr. G. R. Killmister, jun., West Bank, Macclesfield. We propose, in our next, to publish a consolidated list of correspondents. We shall, therefore, be glad to be furnished with any alterations to be made in addresses and with any additional names. 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