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Downing Professor of the Laws of England in the Easter Term, 1889*

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Gentlemen:

With some reluctance I have given way to a wish that I have heard and have consented to say a few words about the course of study for the Second Part of the Law Tripos. Some of the reasons for my reluctance will become apparent hereafter; one of my reasons for yielding I will state at once. Along with other members of the Special Board for Law I took part in preparing what we know as the New Regulations. And certainly it did not seem to me then that we were proposing an impossible scheme; nor do I now regard the scheme either as impossible or as bad, but still I will frankly admit that, had I some years ago seen as clearly as I do now the circumstances in which students will be placed when they have first issued from the First Part of the Tripos, I should have wished to make some changes in the programme. The programme set before you is undoubtedly a heavy one and I may say at once that I do not think that you will do very well in the examination next year unless you set to work at once, and use what remains of this present term and a considerable part of the Long Vacation.

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The Cambridge Law Journal , Volume 24 , Issue 1 , April 1966 , pp. 54 - 74
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Copyright © Cambridge Law Journal and Contributors 1966

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1 Maitland notes in his manuscript Shelford, and Wolstenholme and Turner. The books in question are L. Shelford, Real Property Statutes, with notes, 8th ed. (1874) by T. H. Carson; E. P. Wolstenholme and R. O. Turner, Settled Land Act, 1882, with notes, 2nd ed. (1884), and Conveyancing Acts, etc., with notes, 4th ed. (1885).

2 At the end of his manuscript Maitland writes: “Other books—Dart; Lewin; Snell for a brief view of Equity; Littleton, first two books.” J. H. Dart wrote a well-known treatise on Vendors and Purchasers, 6th ed. (1888) by W. Barber, R. B. Haldane and W. R. Sheldon, T. Lewin, Law of Trusts and Trustees, 8th ed. (1885) by F. A. Lewin. E. H. T. Snell, Principles of Equity, 8th ed. (1887) and 9th ed. (1889) by A. Brown. When he wrote “first two books by Littleton” he may have meant “chapters.”