which with reasonable diligence he could not have discovered before the pronouncing of the said judgment, which said evidence proves that the said judgment is erroneous in fact and law on the merits. Is this plea a good defence to plaintiff's claim? Give the reasons for your

answer.

12. A person whose domicil of origin was Victorian goes to reside in France with the intention of residing there permanently. Shortly afterwards, on war being declared between France and Britain, he expresses his intention of going to England to live, and forwards his goods to London accordingly, but dies before he can leave France. His goods are captured in transitu by a British cruiser. In an English court

(a) What would be held to be his domicil for testamentary purposes?

(b) Are his goods liable to forfeiture as enemy's goods?

Give the reasons for your answers.

JURISPRUDENCE.

The Board of Examiners.

1. What principles, notions, and distinctions form the science of Jurisprudence as Austin conceived it?

2. Mill describes Jurisprudence as "the application of Logic to Law." Explain fully this statement.

3. Analyse and illustrate the meanings of the terms -Attempt, Convention, Justice, Liberty.

4. Give and comment upon Mill's criticism on Austin's definition of a legal right."

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5. Explain and illustrate Austin's statement that a sovereign government has no legal rights against its subjects.

6. Give an analysis of Austin's view of sovereignty, and show, following Sir H. S. Maine, that it is the result of abstraction.

7. Contrast the systems of Prætorian and English Equity.

8. Voluntas spectatur non exitus. Explain and illustrate the application of this maxim in law and the limitations thereto.

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9. Explain and illustrate this passage from Austin:Many a fact or event which is styled simply a contract is properly a complex event compounded of a conveyance and a contract, and imparting uno flatu a right in rem and in personam.”

10. "What the sovereign permits he commands." To what purposes has this maxim been applied in Jurisprudence, and to what extent, if any, is it true?

11. Can it be truly asserted of the system of the Analytical Jurists that "nothing but an accident prevented its coming into existence centuries before its actual birth"? Give your reasons.

12. Discuss the limitations which Sir H. S. Maine thinks "must be given to the system of the Analytical Jurists that it may possess practical value."

THE LAW OF WRONGS.

The Board of Examiners.

1. State shortly the provisions of the Statute of Wrongs under which an action can be sustained against a defendant who has, by negligence, caused the death of another person.

2. The plaintiffs occupied premises beneath the offices of the defendants, who were solicitors. One of the defendants had a room in the offices, and in it was a lavatory for his own use exclusively, and his orders to his clerks were that no clerk should come into his room after he had left. A clerk went into the room to wash his hands at the lavatory, after his employer had left, turned the water tap, and negligently left it so that water flowed from it into the plaintiffs' premises and damaged them. Discuss the position of the defendants.

3. A interested herself in obtaining subscriptions for the relief of the plaintiff, a lady in distressed circumstances. B, who was interested in the case, applied to the secretary of a charity organization society for information as to the plaintiff's character, and received an unfavourable report,

which, by leave of the secretary, she communicated to A. The subscriptions were thereupon withdrawn. The plaintiff then sued the secretary for libel. The society was formed for the purpose of investigating the cases of applicants for charitable relief. What must the plaintiff prove in order to successfully maintain the action?

4. In an action for libel, where the defendant relies upon the defence that the defamatory matter complained of is a "fair comment," what must he prove in order to succeed?

5. The defendant, a ship-owner, undertook to carry the plaintiff's sheep from a foreign port to England. On the voyage some of the sheep were washed overboard by reason of the defendant's neglect to take a precaution enjoined by an order of the Privy Council, which was made under the authority of the Contagious Diseases (Animals) Act, 1869 s. 75. Upon what grounds was it held that the plaintiff could not recover in the action?

6. Write a short report of the case of LANGRIDGE v. LEVY.

7. State the principle upon which a master is held to be liable for damages arising from the negligence. of his servant, when acting in the course of the servant's employment.

8. Explain what is meant by the term "privileged communication" in an action for defamation. Give two examples.

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9. Under what circumstances can a man ratify a tort committed by another person, so as to become personally liable for it?"

10. Define "bailment."

What two ingredients are

necessary in every bailment ?

11. Into what classes is "homicide" divided in the criminal law?

12. What is the test, when it is sought to defend a prisoner upon the ground of insanity?

THE LAW OF PROCEDURE.

The Board of Examiners.

1. Enumerate and briefly describe the several remedies without the aid of Courts of Justice— described by Blackstone as "extra-judicial or eccentric remedies.”

2. Explain and illustrate the maxim-Ubi jus ibi remedium.

3. Explain and illustrate the maxim-Nemo debet bis vexari pro unâ et eâdem causâ.

4. Describe the controlling jurisdiction (apart from the appellate jurisdiction) of the Supreme Court over the Inferior Courts of the colony.

5. Explain fully the Statutory Rules regulating the