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 269 such aid as they could get from willing bench with myself. At this time Mr. Irving or unwilling masters in whose offices they had not been called to the bar, and therefore might chance to be. There were no regu took fuller notes than I did; a perusal of lar instructors of the law; every student those notes reminds me with what attention was expected to look out for himself, and we listened to those lectures, which rather fight his way through the ordeal of an ex bore the character of critical examination amination before the Benchers of the Law of decided cases and the principles which Society as best he could. should govern, than the deliverances of textIn some places more attention was given writers on any subject

presented. Mr. Blake to instructing the stu was a fearless dissector of decided cases, and dents than in others. never failed to illus In Toronto, the seat trate a proposition by of the courts, there the highest principles were not wanting bar of philosophic truth. risters who gave to Mr. Irving's note-book their students instruc is a standing proof of tion in the science and the ability and indus principles of the law, try of Mr. Blake as a and sometimes in its lecturer, and of the practice also. excellence of the lec I can well recollect turers themselves. I when about the year turn now again to the 1853 the late John students in their char Hillyard Cameron, and acter of candidates for Sir Adam Wilson, Exadmission to a mem Chief-Justice, gave to bership of the Law So their pupils lessons in ciety,— in other words, law, the remembrance as candidates for the of which is cherished privilege of studying by their ex-students, law. We have referred many of whom have to the first and sec become distinguished ond curricula; we now members of the bar. CHARLES MOSS, Q. C come to the third cur I go back and re riculum, which was a member how in the. year 1848 (after I had been called to the still further advance in the requirements and bar) I attended the lectures of the late acquirements of students before being per mitted to enter the portals of the law. At Hon. William Hume Blake, then Profes sor of the Law in King's College, Toronto, a Convocation of Benchers held in Trinity afterward Chancellor of Upper Canada, — Term, 23 Vic. 31st August, 1859, it was re solved that the examinations for students-atlectures which I may say in point of mat law should be divided into three classes, to ter and manner of delivery were not sur passed by the lectures of a Story or a Kent. be called (1) the University Class, (2) the There are living witnesses who will bear out Senior Class, (3) The Junior Class; that can didates for' the University Class should be this assertion. I am indebted to the cour graduates of a university entitled to confer tesy of /Emilius Irving, Esq., Queen's Coun sel, for showing me his book of notes which degrees and established in some part of Her he took of those lectures while on the same Majesty's dominions, and should be examined