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The Legal World An enormous task is before the com mission which is codifying the canon law of the Roman Catholic Church. The first portion to be completed deals with impediments to the marriage tie. The subjects covered by laws which are the
Georgia, which authorizes the large cities of the state to vote on the ques tion of abolishing justice courts.
accumulation of centuries include the
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entire administration of the church on its legal side, especially relating to cen tral administration.
result of conferences by committees of the New York County Lawyers’ Asso
It is gratifying to note that some progress is being made in raising funds for a new law school building for the University of Maine, to replace the
building destroyed by the Bangor fire. The Maine Law School Alumni Associa tion considered the matter at its June
meeting, at which the following ofl‘icers were elected: Frank D. Fenderson, Limerick, president; Freeland Jones,
Bangor, vice-president; Benjamin W. Blanchard, Bangor, treasurer; Neil V. McLean, Bangor; financial secretary;
George H. Worster, Bangor, correspond ing secretary; C. P. Conners and D. F.
New rules for admission to the bar in New York State became effective on The amended rules are the
ciation and the Association of the Bar,
with the Justices of the Appellate Divi sion and the Court of Appeals. Francis Lynde Stetson, President of the Bar Association, and John R. Dos Passos,
Chairman of the Committee on Admis sions of the County Lawyers’ Associa tion, gave much time to revising the rules. The amended rules lengthen from three to four years the time to be spent in apprenticeship, credit of one year being given to graduates of colleges and universities. It is expected this rule
will reduce the number of candidates for admission to the bar and raise the stand ard of those who are successful. Appli cants who are not graduates of colleges
Snow, Bangor, and J. P. Dudley, Houl
or universities must serve a clerkship
ton, executive committee.
for one year continuously before exami
That time-honored personage, the Jus
tice of the Peace, is extinct in many of our states, where minor courts have
been established which are administered by thoroughly competent judges occu
pying a dignified place in the judiciary system. In some parts of the South there are signs of dissatisfaction with the justice courts, and indications that the system is likely to be reformed. The Bar Association of Baltimore, for ex
ample, is supporting a bill for the estab lishment of a People's Court for minor civil actions, the bulk of the business
of the justice courts being thrown into the new central court. Moreover, the Atlanta Bar Association has drawn up an amendment to the constitution of
nation by the State Board of Bar Examiners or after a successful examina tion, before being admitted to practice. Graduates of colleges and universities
are privileged, under the amended rules, to serve their full apprenticeship either as clerks in a law ofiice, or as students in a law school, or half time in each.
Obituary Judge Martin E. GilL-Martin Ed
ward Gill of the District Court at San Juan, Porto Rico, who died in June, was born in Somerville, Mass, on Febru ary 13, 1870, and was graduated from Harvard in 1890, and from the Harvard
Law School in 1894, winning honors in all his studies. When the present Gov
