COLLEGE OF LAW
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Elvis ]. Stahr, ]r., William R. Bagby, ]ohn L. Davis, ]esse ]. Dukeminier, ]r.,
Richard D. Gilliam, ]r., VVillburt D. Ham, F. Selby Hurst, Rufus Lisle,
Alfred B. McEwen, W. L. Matthews, ]r., Roy Moreland, Paul Oberst,
Frank Hall Randall, VVilliam Lewis Roberts, Calvert T. Roszell, jg
Dorothy Salmon, and Frederick W. Whiteside, ]r.
(All courses are lecture and recitation unless otherwise noted.)
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First Yeur Subjects
ORIENTATION FOR LAW STUDY. (No credit) I, II Staff
Lectures by faculty on various basic topics. Required of all new students.
101a,b CONTRACTS I-II. (3, 2) I, II Ham ll
Patterson and Gohle’s Cases (3rd ed.).
Formation of contracts, offer, acceptance, consideration. Statute of Frauds, parol
evidence rule, contracts tor benefit of third persons, assignments, performance of
contracts, express and implied conditions, impossibility of performance, discharge
and illegal contracts. ll
102a, b TORTS I-II. (8, 2) I, II Oberst and Gilliam
Thurston, Seavey and Keeton’s Cases.
Intentional torts and defenses, negligence, causation, duties of occupants of land
and manufacturers and vendors of chattels, contributory negligence, strict liability, 1,
deceit, defamation, malicious prosecution, interference with advantageous relations.
103 PROPERTY I-II. (4) I, II Matthews
Casner and Leach’s Cases. 1
Basic course in property: possession, gifts, bona fide purchasers of personalty. Es-
tates, uses, easements, and rights incident to ownership.
106a,b PLEADING I-II. (2, 2) I, II McEwen
Clark, Cases on Modern Pleading.
Keigwin, Cases on Common Law Pleading.
Pleading I: Common law forms, theory of the case, composition of pleadings, demur—
rer, aider, duplicity, traverses, pleas, motions.
Pleading II: Code and Federal Rule pleading. Claims, answers, objection and cor- 1
rection of pleadings, parties and joinders of actions.
107a CRIMINAL LANV. (2) II Moreland
Hall and Glucek’s Cases on Criminal Law and Its Enforcement.
]uri:diction; the criminal act, complete and incomplete; criminal intent, actual and
constructive; duress and mistake of fact, of law; justification; parties in crime; 1
crimes against the person and crimes against property.
107b CRIMINAL PROCEDURE. (2) II Moreland
Hall and Glueck’s Cases on Criminal Lew and Its Enforcement. 1
Arrest, preliminary examination, bail, methods of prosecution, the grand jury, indict-
ment and information, arraignment and pleas. nolle proscqui and motions to quash,
trial and verdict, motions after trial.
120 TRIAL PROCEDURE. (3) II Lisle
Hays’ Cases on Civil Procedure.
Venue, service of summons, provisional remedies, discovery and pretrial practice,
summary judgment, trials, verdict, judgment and appeals, including final judgment
rule, and appeal practice; res iudicuta; correction of judgments; extraordinary J
remedies.
144 LEGAL BIBLIOGRAPHY. (1) I, II Salmon
Price and Bitner, Effective Legal Research. _
Practical problems in the use of statutes, reports, digests, encyclopedias, annotated ·
cases, citation books, periodicals, reference tables, and indices.
185 LEGAL METHOD. (2) I Matthews and Dukeminier ·
Dowling, Patterson and Powell, Materials for Legal Method (2nd ed.). ‘
An introductory course for first year Law students, covering the sources and forms
of American law, legal reasoning in judicial precedents, how to solve a. legal problem,
and legal writing.