IIT Chicago Kent College of Law - Transcript Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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E t . The course is divided, as are the under graduate courses, into two sem- esters. The class meets three evenings a week, Monday, Wed11esday and Friday and in the early part of the course each students chooses the particular branch of law which he wishes to investigate in detail and which is to be the subject of a theses prepared by him. Monday nights during the current yearvwere set aside for a discussion of the topics upon which theses were being prepared. That portion of the various theses which had been completed was discussed and suggestions and criticisms were offered by the members of the class. VVednesday evening, during the first semester, was devoted to the study of the evolution and development of the law. Dean Burke generally opened the class with a lecture which was supplemented by reports prepared by individual members of the class. During the second semester real property law was reviewed, with particular attention to matters of probate practice and the draft- ing of pleadings relating thereto. Friday evenings of the hrst semester were devoted to a study of the Illinois Practice Act and the preparation of common law pleadings. The second semester was given over to the preparation of pleadings in equity. The Dean's course in the evolution and development of the law related to a consideration of different systems of jurisprudence obtaining in many of the now extinct civilizations. First was taken up the laws of Mesopotamia, prin- cipally the code of Hammurabi-the criminal, domestic relations, property and commercial features being the points stressed. After that, other systems were examined and compared, including the Mosaic, Punic and Egyptian, together with their influences and relationships on and to later systems of law. The law obtaining in the very early Greek city states, of which Athens and Sparta were taken for examples, occupied considerable attention. Something was reported upon concerning the lives of 'semi-mythical personages like Lycurgus, Draco and Solon. The poetry of Homer was inquired into as a source of ancient Greek law. Considerable time was devoted to Roman Law. Rome's historical de- velopment was carefully traced in so far as it related to the legal aspects of the subject in hand. Then the whole subject of Roman law was divided into two parts, the law as it existed before and as it was during and after the time of Justinian. In treating of the time prior to justinian, the Tweleve Tables were discussed and some attention was given to government and procedure, domestic relations and property and commerce. For a treatment of the time during and after the regin of justinian, mention was made of the monumental work of that great compiler together with some discussion as to the influence of the Roman law on the common law. From Roman law, attention of the class was directed to the law of Rome's conquerors. Here were encountered the sources of the Salic and Visigothic Laws and the origin and rise of the feudal system peculiar to Nordic peoples, and there were also the stories of the hardy Northmen, the Icelandic Sagas. After a consideration of the laws that have come down to us of the'Northmen, the class was prepared to undertake a study of the laws of the Saxons in England before the Norman Conquest. From that beginning, the evolution, history and development of English law was traced carefully thru the reigns of the various English sovereigns, noting here and there the changes of each period, the influence of law writers and the structural growth of the unwritten constitution of England. Considerable time 59 C219E6f WJ ff 'H

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IEYRON ll. SERVIES ROBERT H. KLETT SAMUEL SIMON ROBERT K. HILL 7305! Graduate Class ' VVENDELL H. SHANNER Received degree of L. L. M. February, 1926. Thesis-Municipal Law. ROBERT K. HILL Candidate for degree of L. L. M. June, 1926. Thesis-Insurance Law. ROBERT H. LKLETT Candidate for degree of L. L. M. June, 1926. Thesis-Trust Companies. BYRON B. Seiwnzs Candidate for degree of L. L. M. june, 1926. Thesis-Legal Aspects of the New York Standard Fire Insurance Policy. SAMUEL SIMON Candidate for degree of L. L. M. June, 1926. Thesis-The Interstate Com- merce Act. EUGENE V. TAYLOR Candidate for degree of L. L. M. February 1927. T hesis-Patents. HE post graduate course has as its object to delve more in detail into various branch of law, than is possible in the undergraduate courses. to present a historical aspect of law and to increase the students ability of analyzing facts and circumstances which lead up to a law suit, together with the preparation and presentinent of a case from the standpoint of pleading. 53 1926 g

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Y t 1 TPAINTSTCDHJT 7 was spent on the origin and development of Chancery practice. From the study of English law, the class proceeded one step further and took up American Colonial law prior to the Revolution, then the law thereafterg the latter particularly in relation to the Constitution, codes and great American decisions. Some autobiographical reports were made upon eminent American jurists such as jay, Kent, Story and Marshall. The foregoing is apparently a formidable array of intellectual activity for only three evenings a week. However, in actuality such formidableness dis- appeared. Any unusual work such as this bear fruition in personal satisfaction, a larger grasp of the theory and philosophy of law and a better perspective of the held, wherein we have chosen the labor of our lives. The members of the post graduate class wish to extend to Mr. jackson, Mr. Smith and Dean Burke their thanks for contributing so much to the class' enjoyment of this year's instructive and interesting program. L 'envoy Farewell ye halls, ye classrooms dearly loved Ye quaint homely stairways, fare ye well, For henceforth shall we know your ways no more, But leave and take but memories to tell. Dear tranquil scenes of many joyful days And hours of hasty study for the nite, Spurred on by feverish tho'ts of Pickett's ways, Forewarned that we'd be called on to recite. Farewell ye many portraits on the walls Ye Thompson chairs and noisy squeeking doorg Gft though our hearts may crave that we return VV e leave you now behind forever more. Fellow classmates, ye go in unknown ways, Let not ambition mock your useful toil, The path of glory leads but to the grave, To heed, you but enslave your soul. Strive ye for useful duty to command, The Lures of gain and lucre to despiseg Scatter virtue o'er a smiling land, And read your history in a nation's eyes. Shun heraldry, the boast of pomp or power, Heap not the shrine of luxury and pride, Lest, to quench the blushes of ingenious shame The struggling pangs of concious truth you hide. Seek happiness in only useful ways, In quaint joys and knowledge oft obscure. Let not Grandeur make you fail to heed, The short and simple annals of the poor. Then in your ways there'll be little, as you know, To do with wealth and least of all with fame, But yet, there'll come unsought and with you grow And make for you, that priceless gem-a name. -L. C. TNTILLER-, 'Z6. 60 1926 y .J cf by VX! f?