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these the study of the Civil Law, from which the provisions of the Code of Louisiana are mainly borrowed. The lectures and course of studies are comprehensive. The Faculty aim to pre pare the student for admission to the bar, not only in this State, but also in any of the Common-Law States of the Union. The school is not designed or limited to educate one for the practice of the law in Louisiana only. It invites to its lectures all who wish to fit themselves for the practice of the law, no matter where they now reside or in what State they may intend to follow this noble calling. The study of the two great systems of law, side by side, is to the student of any

intellectual grasp a long step in the science of Comparative Jurisprudence. The jurisprudence arising from the con flict of the laws of different States and nations, in their actual application to moddern commerce and intercourse, is here prac tically taught by cases daily arising in the business of private persons. The Library of the State has been suita bly arranged over the lecture-room in the University building devoted to the Depart ment of Law, corner of Tulane Avenue and University Place. This library consists of nearly thirty thousand volumes, and includes a highly valuable collection of foreign and American legal works and of Law Reports.

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THE LIBRARY.