SCHOOL OF HISTORY, POLITICAL ECONOMY, AND JURISPRUDENCE. HISTORY. The Board of Examiners. 1. Discuss the theory of the medieval Empire. 2. Trace the development of the Empire as an international power. 3. Trace the causes of the long retention of the Imperial throne by Austria. 4. What were the general causes of the decline of chivalry? What special causes have been supposed to apply to France? 5. Shew that the Code of St. Louis strikingly illus trates the dissimilitude of the French and the English systems of government. 6. The period from about the middle of the eleventh to that of the twelfth century, is marked by three great events in Italian history. What are they? 7. Trace the origin of the temporal dominion of the Popes. 8. Consider the revival of learning in medieval Italy. 9. Trace the rise and the decline of the Caliphate. POLITICAL ECONOMY. The Board of Examiners. 1. Does the increase of capital in a country produce or tend to produce a general decline of (a) prices, (b) profits, (c) wages, in that country? 2. What are the leading causes which enable one country to undersell another? 3. (a) Why are wages high in new countries? (b) What is Mill's "only case in which, on mere principles of political economy, protecting duties can be defensible"? Is it valid? 4. What is Mill's distinction between home trade and international trade in respect to the transferability of capital and labour, and the equalization of wages and profit? Can the distinction, in your opinion, be maintained? 5. Give a brief comparison of the distribution and value of gold and silver at the present time, and in the sixteenth century. 6. What conclusions would you draw from the FrancoGerman war as to (a) its cost to each of the belligerents; (b) the absolute loss of capital? 7. Consider some of the characteristic marks disclosed in the depressions of trade which have occurred in Great Britain and elsewhere during recent years. 8. Discuss the utility of statistics and of statistical knowledge. JURISPRUDENCE. The Board of Examiners. 1. What criticisms have been made upon the Patriarchal Theory of Sir Henry Maine? Explain the terms Tanistry, Levirate, Totemkin. 2. How and in what departments have early religious institutions and ideas affected the development of civil institutions? 3. What deductions have been drawn from the contents and arrangement of early systems of law? 4. Under what philosophical and political ideas has International Law been developed in Europe? EXAMINATION FOR THE DEGREE OF THE PRINCIPLES OF LEGISLATION. The Board of Examiners. 1. Why does Equity precede legislation in legal history? 2. Distinguish between Sanction and Redress, explaining the tendency of modern legislation in this respect. 3. Distinguish the province of private ethics from the province of legislation. 4. "When we come to consider pains and pleasures under the character of punishments and rewards, attached to certain rules of conduct, we may distinguish four (4) sanctions." BENTHAM. What are these sanctions? 5. Give a definition of that class of legislation which in a parliamentary sense constitutes a "Private Bill." 6. State in general terms the steps necessary to be taken before a "Private Bill" can be brought into either House of Parliament. 7. Compare the borrowing powers conferred on municipalities by the Victorian Local Government Act 1890, with those conferred by the English Local Government Act 1888. 8. Describe fully the "manner of making" By-laws, as prescribed in Part VII. of the Local Government Act 1890. JURISPRUDENCE. The Board of Examiners. 1. From what different standpoints has it been proposed to classify law? Discuss the theoretic value and practical convenience of the application of these principles. 2. Give the history and derivation of the word feudum, showing the light which this and similar expres sions cast upon early conceptions of property in general. 3. Discuss the Methods of Jurisprudence in relation to (a) The circumstances which called each into existence as a method of study. (b) The part which each has played in the development of jurisprudence. (c) The proper functions served by each. |