6. What conclusions would you draw from the FrancoGerman war as to (a) its cost to each of the belligerents; (b) the absolute loss of capital?

7. Consider some of the characteristic marks disclosed in the depressions of trade which have occurred in Great Britain and elsewhere during recent years.

8. Discuss the utility of statistics and of statistical knowledge.

JURISPRUDENCE.

The Board of Examiners.

1. What criticisms have been made upon the Patriarchal Theory of Sir Henry Maine? Explain the terms Tanistry, Levirate, Totemkin.

2. How and in what departments have early religious institutions and ideas affected the development of civil institutions?

3. What deductions have been drawn from the contents and arrangement of early systems of law?

4. Under what philosophical and political ideas has International Law been developed in Europe?

EXAMINATION FOR THE DEGREE OF
DOCTOR OF LAWS.

THE PRINCIPLES OF LEGISLATION.

The Board of Examiners.

1. Why does Equity precede legislation in legal history?

2. Distinguish between Sanction and Redress, explaining the tendency of modern legislation in this respect.

3. Distinguish the province of private ethics from the province of legislation.

4. "When we come to consider pains and pleasures under the character of punishments and rewards, attached to certain rules of conduct, we may distinguish four (4) sanctions." BENTHAM.

What are these sanctions?

5. Give a definition of that class of legislation which in a parliamentary sense constitutes a "Private Bill."

6. State in general terms the steps necessary to be taken before a "Private Bill" can be brought into either House of Parliament.

7. Compare the borrowing powers conferred on municipalities by the Victorian Local Government Act 1890, with those conferred by the English Local Government Act 1888.

8. Describe fully the "manner of making" By-laws, as prescribed in Part VII. of the Local Government Act 1890.

JURISPRUDENCE.

The Board of Examiners.

1. From what different standpoints has it been proposed to classify law? Discuss the theoretic value and practical convenience of the application of these principles.

2. Give the history and derivation of the word feudum, showing the light which this and similar expres

sions cast upon early conceptions of property in general.

3. Discuss the Methods of Jurisprudence in relation

to

(a) The circumstances which called each into existence as a method of study.

(b)

The part which each has played in the development of jurisprudence.

(c) The proper functions served by each.

4. What explanations are given of the various modes of inheritance ab intestato which have been observed in various countries.

ROMAN LAW.

The Board of Examiners.

Quote, wherever you can, the text of the Roman Law in support of your statements.

1. In England-" At the present day the doctrine of Consideration plays a part in the law relating to two great juristic institutions, Contracts and Conveyances."

Discuss at length the applicability of the above proposition to Roman Law at any period.

2. Trace the origin and development of the Law of Insolvency.

3. Discuss Negligence as an element of liability.

4. Savigny says " According to this rule, Possession may be even acquired through a criminal act." Comment on the above passage.

5. Discuss the transmissibility of rights of actions to the successors of the parties.

EXAMINATION FOR THE DEGREE OF
DOCTOR OF MEDICINE.

LOGIC.

The Board of Examiners.

1. Explain the principle, and consider the value, of the Joint Method of Agreement and Difference.

2. What logical method, or methods, would you apply in testing the localization of a sensory centre in the human brain?

3. Mention different ways in which natural uniformities are said to be explained. Can the limits of such explanation be specified?

4. Give various meanings which have been attached to the word Analogy. In what way is it used by Mill; and what value does he assign to analogical argument?

5. To what extent does Induction depend on Conception and Description?

Consider the

6. What, according to Mill, is the distinction between a natural class and a kind? validity of his doctrine of kinds.