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'Oir smuainig rib féin air an té úd do fulaing a faṁuil sin do cáint do cur 'na azuid féin 6 peacacuib, d'eagla dul a dtuirse 1a nanbaiñe dib añ bur niñtiñib.

Níor fearabar fós go fuil, ag caċúzab a naguid an peacuid Agus a né gur déarmuid sib an foirċeadal lábras rib aṁuil né cloin, a mic, ná bioo neaṁsuim agad a smaċd an Tizearna, ná téid a nanbfaiñe an tan ċronuiżeas sé tú :

'Oir smaċduize an Tizeanna an té zráduigeas sé, & sgiursuid sé gaċ mac ré ngabañ sé.

Dá bfuilnge sib smaċdużað, atá Dia d’a foráileað féin oruib amuil air cloiñ; óir cia he an mac naċ smaċduiżeañ an táċair ? Acd dá raib sib gan an smaċdużad, roiñtear ris na huilidið, go deimin as clañ basdaird sib, & ní maca.

Do bádar fós ar náitreaċa colluidte azuiñ na luċd smaċduigte, agus do beirmís urruim [dóib]: a né naċ ró mó ná sin do beuram úṁlaċd d'Aċair na spiorad, & biam beo?

'Ois do bádarsan d'ar smaċdużaidne beazán laeże do réir a dtola féin; aċd cum [ar] leasa éision, ioñus go nglacfamaois a naoṁtaċdsan.

Acd ní cormuil smaċdużad air bi¿ ré feað na nuaire sin do Bei¿ sólásaċ, aċd dólásaċ: gidead do beir sé ’na diaiz sin torað suaiṁneać na fíreuntaċda do'n druing ċleaċdas é.

EXAMINATION IN FEUDAL AND ENGLISH LAW.

MR. RICHEY.

(Students not competing for a Prize are not required to answer the questions Nos. 11 to 18, inclusive.)

1. What evils was the Statute "De donis conditionalibus" designed to obviate? what are its leading enactments? and what was its practical result?

2. What evils was the Statute "Quia emptores" designed to obviate? What are its leading enactments?

3. What are estates by Statute Merchant, Statute Staple, and Elegit? When were they introduced, and what change in the legal nature of estates in land was indicated by their introduction?

4. What is an estate in dower? what is an estate by the curtesy? State the points of resemblance and difference between the two estates?

5. Define and distinguish the legal estate and equitable rights of a lessee under a lease for lives renewable for ever. Explain the doctrines of general and special occupancy, and the nature of an estate in quasi fee tail.

6. Explain the nature and origin of Uses. By what sanction were uses enforced? What Statutes, and what rights of feudal lords were eluded by

the introduction of uses? State what were the points of resemblance and difference between a legal estate in fee, and a use of the fee-simple in land. 7. Define and distinguish "joint-tenancy," tenancy in common," and "co-parcenery."

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8. Explain the nature of the following modes of conveyance, viz., feofment, grant, release, bargain and sale, and covenant to stand seised; and to what cases are they severally applicable?

9. Define what are words of "purchase" and of "limitation." State the rule known as that in Shelley's Case.

10. Explain the origin and result of the rule that an estate of freehold can not be created in futuro.

11. Lord St. Leonard states, "The operation of the Statute (of Uses), in setting aside the rules of law, is twofold:

(a). In the transfer of a mere legal estate by a secret deed; (b) in the creation of estates not allowed by the Common Law."

Explain and illustrate this statement.

12. Explain the legal theory of "powers operating under the Statute of Uses." Illustrate this theory by the application of the rule against perpetuities to estates created by the exercise of a power (Spencer v. Marlborough, Bro. P. C. 592).

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13. Define and illustrate "springing,' 'shifting," and "future or contingent" uses. Define what is a "resulting" use.

Distinguish the two following limitations and their results:

(a) A conveys lands to trustees and their heirs to the use of A for 99 years, if he should so long live; remainder to the trustees for 25 years; remainder to the right heirs of the body of A. (Adams v. Savage, 2 Lord Raymond, 855).

(b) A conveys lands to trustees and their heirs to the use of the trustees for 70 years, if A should so long live, and after his death to the use of the trustees for 3000 years, and after the death of A, and the determination of the term of 3000 years, to the use of B for life, with remainders over. (Penhay v. Hurrell, 2 Vern. 370).

Illustrate this

14. Explain the rule that a use cannot arise out of a use. by stating the facts and results of the leading case on this point, Tyrrell's case, Dyer, 155a. Distinguish the application of this rule to conveyances which operate by transmutation of possession, and those which do not so operate.

15. Explain the result of the limitation of lands to the use of A for life, remainder to the heirs of the body of B. (Mandeville's Case).

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16. How far had the princples of feudalism been introduced into English before A. D. 1066? Explain the Anglo-Saxon terms "bocland," folkland," and "loenland."

17. State the theory of the development of the feudal system from the Teutonic comitatus.

18. Explain the difference between an English settlement carried out by a series of estates in fee tail, and a Scotch tailzie?

EXAMINATION FOR DEGREE OF BACHELOR IN

MEDICINE.

SURGERY.

DR. R. W. SMITH.

1. Contrast cynanche laryngea, pharyngea, and tonsillaris, as far as regards two symptoms, viz., dyspnea and dysphagia.

2. Enumerate the tumours met with in the parotid space. Distinguish the benign from the malignant. Nature of the tumour of most frequent occurrence in this space?

3. Mention the usual causes of catarrh of the bladder. What are the symptoms of the disease? Treatment of irritable bladder in children?

4. What bones are most frequently attacked by syphilitic nodes? Describe such a node. What is the peculiar character of the pain? Treatment?

5. Opinions entertained respecting the pathology of "Pott's Gangrene"?

MIDWIFERY.

PROFESSOR SINCLAIR.

1. Explain physiologically the function of menstruation; and detail minutely the changes which then take place in the ovary and the uterus.

2. Write a brief dissertation upon the use of tartar emetic in obstetric practice, and give the doses of that medicine you would prescribe upon every occasion when you would deem its administration advisable.

3. What are all the circumstances which would lead you to diagnose the existence of twins in utero prior to labour? and detail the treatment to be adopted in twin delivery.

4. What would lead you to suspect shoulder presentation prior to labour? How would digital examination prove its existence after labour had set in; and how would you treat such a case provided it was under your care from the very commencement of labour?

5. Describe a case for advanced carcinoma uteri, and give the treatment of such a case.

PHYSIOLOGICAL ANATOMY.

DR. M'DOWEL.

1. Trace to their distribution the named branches of the ophthalmic division of the fifth pair of nerves.

2. Describe the trachea, and mention the structures of which it is composed.

3. Enumerate the structures of which the skin is composed.

4. Describe the tubercula quadrigemina. State the relations and connexions of these bodies with surrounding parts.

5. Describe the arrangement of the mucous membrane of the stomach.

INSTITUTES OF MEDICINE.

PROFESSOR LAW.

1. What are the different renal affections comprehended under the general designation of Bright's disease?

2. What are the different sources through which pus may get into the circulation?

3. What are the negative proofs afforded by Pathology of the superior physiological importance of the red corpuscles of the blood?

4. What are the physical signs, constitutional symptoms, and post mortem appearances in a case of acute phthisis pulmonalis ?

5. What is Duchenne's definition of Locomotor Ataxy?

MEDICAL JURISPRUDENCE.

DR. TRAVERS.

1. Inspecting the recent dead body of an infant child, from what indications will you determine (a) its viability; (b) its maturity; (c) its life at birth; and (d) its survival after birth for three, four, or five days?

2. The death of an adult, of either sex, has been caused by a poison. The body is examined before putrescence has begun to appear, yet neither by anatomical research, nor by chemical process, can you obtain the required proof. What circumstances will adequately account for such d-ficiency of the medical evidence?

3. Explain why the absence of auscultatory signs is less conclusive as a negative, than is their presence as an affirmative, in a case of dubious or only suspected pregnancy?

4. Enumerate the characteristic signs of death by drowning; and explain why they are sometimes not observed.

5. What are the contaminations of water for domestic use, against which you should guard, and what precautions would you consequently direct to be adopted in reference to them?

EXAMINATION FOR DEGREE OF MASTER IN SURGERY.

DR. ADAMS.

1. State the symptoms of bursal tumours of the front of the wrist, formed within the bursa of the tendons of the flexor muscles of the fingers; the prognosis relative to them, and their treatment.

2. State the symptoms which will announce to you, that a patient undergoing a course of mercury is affected with mercurial erythema; in what order of Willan will you place the affection?

3. State the symptoms of the disease denominated organic stricture of the rectum. The diagnosis between this disease, and cancer of the rec

tum.

4. Give a description of a case of rickets. How the disease is to be treated constitutionally, and locally; and contrast this malady with Fragilitas, or mollities ossium.

5. State your opinion as to whether, in the disease termed "Ingrowing of the nail," the evulsion of the nail is always necessary; or whether you know or have read of any milder method of treatment having been found efficient.

DR. BUTCHER.

1. Describe a case of malignant polypus in the nose, trace it from earliest stage to its most advanced degree, and mention how a fleshy polypus may assume some of its characters.

2. Localize the different forms of syphilitic ulcers occurring in the throat and mouth; and give a minute description of each.

3. Describe the different operations for tying the external iliac artery, and the one most applicable for a large unguinal aneurism, extending above Poupart's ligament, and mention any serious consequences that may occur in the after management of such a case, and the treatment applicable; state, also, the anastomosing vessels that convey blood to the limb after the main channel is obstructed.

4. Describe the different kinds of ulcers of the leg, and foot, and the treatment applicable to each.

5. Enumerate the different injuries occurring, from accident, about the shoulder joint, and diagnose each minutely.

MR. WILSON.

1. Describe the appearance and position of arcus senilis; state its causes and pathology, and at what age it usually occurs.

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