and Commons"? What was its date, and what was its effect upon the two estates of the Commons and the Lords?

6. By what different modes can peerages be created or conferred? What is the present state of the

law as to Life Peerages?

7. What are the three cases in which a dissolution of Parliament is proper?

8. Explain the distinction between a sovereign Legislature and a non-sovereign Legislative body? Of which class is the Parliament of this Colony?

9. State the relations between the Legislative Council and the Legislative Assembly of this Colony as regulated by the Constitution Act in matters of public finance.

10. What is the provision of the Constitution Act of the Colony as to the Assembling of Parliament, Prorogation, and Dissolution?

11. Give the substance of the law which regulates the sitting in Parliament of Officers of the Crown in the Colony.

12. Give the substance of the Crown Remedies and Liabilities Statute.

INTERNATIONAL LAW.

The Board of Examiners.

1. Discuss any three of the following cases, stating in each case the rules of law applicable thereto :

(a) The Maine Boundary question.

(b) The case of Martin Koszta.

(c) The Huascar.

(d) The Swineherd.

(e) The Shenandoah.

(f) The Silesian Loan.

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2. Where a community is endeavouring to separate itself from the State to which it belongs, state the circumstances in which nations other than the parent State are justified in according (a) Recognition as a belligerent. (b) Recognition as a State.

Illustrate your remarks by reference to the conduct of Great Britain during the Civil War in the United States.

3. How far, in your opinion, is Devastation permissible as a means of offence or defence?

4. What were the principles of Maritime Law in time of War laid down by the Declaration of Paris in 1856? How far, if at all, were they declaratory of the previously existing law?

5. What is the doctrine of the Courts of Great

Britain with regard to provisions being treated as contraband? How and in what circumstances would this be modified by the exercise of the right of Pre-emption?

6. In an action on a Bill of Exchange the defendant relies on the plea that he is the Consul of a friendly nation resident in Victoria. Would this be a good defence? Give the reasons for your

answer.

7. Discuss and illustrate the difference between Civil Domicil and what, in time of war, is known as Commercial or Belligerent Domicil.

8. When will the legitimation of a child by the subsequent marriage of the parents be recognised in Victoria?

9. In what circumstances may a person recover damages in Victoria for a tort committed outside the jurisdiction?

10. State the rules for ascertaining by what law the obligation arising from a foreign contract is governed.

11. A foreigner domiciled abroad, having married in Victoria a woman domiciled therein, after residing with her for some time, deserts her, returns to his domicil abroad, and continues to reside there. Has the Supreme Court in Victoria jurisdiction to entertain a petition by the wife for dissolution of the marriage? Give the reasons for your answer.

12. When a person domiciled in England dies intestate, leaving personal property in England and Victoria, state fully the duties of the principal and the ancillary administrator.

THE LAW OF PROPERTY.

The Board of Examiners.

1. Explain the meaning of the following terms:— (a) Tenement,

(b) Hereditament,

(c) Chose in possession,

(d) Chose in action.

2. When was the Statute of Uses passed, and what abuses was it intended to remedy?

3. Explain and illustrate the doctrine that there cannot be a use upon a use.

4. State and explain the rule in Shelley's case.

5. What is a remainder, and what is the difference between a vested and a contingent remainder?

6. What is the difference between a condition of re-entry and a conditional limitation?

7. What is a mortgage of land? Explain the difference between the interpretation put on such an instrument at Common Law and that adopted by the Court of Chancery.

8. What is a fixture? State fully the rights of a tenant for years in respect of fixtures erected by him during his term.

9. What is a lien? Explain the difference between a special and a general lien.

10. State shortly the provisions of The Merchant Shipping Act 1854 with respect to the mortgage of ships.

11. What effect had the marriage of a woman on her choses in action and choses in possession respectively under the Common Law, and what effect has such a marriage on similar property under the provisions of The Married Women's Property Act 1884 ?

12. What is an executor de son tort; and what, according to Mr. Williams, is the chief difference between an executor de son tort and an ordinary executor?

THE LAW OF OBLIGATIONS.

The Board of Examiners.

1. State and illustrate the rule laid down in Watkins v. Rymill, 10 Q. B. D. 178, to determine the liability of a person by the acceptance of an offer containing upon its face a complete contract, but including by general reference other special terms not specifically stated in the document, but capable of being ascertained by the acceptor.