JURISPRUDENCE.

The Board of Examiners.

Candidates must not answer more than SEVEN of the following questions.

1. Consider historically the growth of Jurisprudence in England. To what extent has it been influenced by European thought?

2. What do you consider to be the proper place of Fictions in a legal system?

3. Consider the part played by "Legislation" in the development of law. Illustrate your answer by a reference to the Roman and English law.

4. At what stage of social development do you consider the terms Political Society and Law become fairly applicable to the society and its rules?

5. What are the principal classifications of property Have they any, and what, philosophical or practical value?

6. What theories are held as to the nature of the Gens?

7. Consider the legal position of women in ancient and modern societies. Account for the subjection of women in ancient societies.

8. What are the essential features of case or judiciary law? What are ratio decidendi and ratio legis?

What truth is there in the maxim Cessante ratione legis cessat lex?

9. What are the various uses of the term Negligentia in the Roman and Negligence in the English Law? Is the maxim "A man acts at his peril" the legal basis of wrong in general or of any particular wrong.

10. Compare the English and Roman Law in regard to Security for Debt.

11. What is an Imperfect Law? Consider the propriety of using this expression.

SCHOOL OF MODERN LANGUAGES AND LITERATURE.

ENGLISH.

FIRST PAPER.

The Board of Examiners.

1. What do we learn from Piers the Plowman about the condition of the labouring classes in England during the fourteenth century?

2. Put into modern English the following passages,
adding any notes which you
consider necessary:—

Shal na more Mede be maistre, as she is nouthe,
Ac loue and loweness and lewte togederes,
Thise shul be maistres on molde treuthe to saue.
And who-so trespasseth ayein treuthe or taketh
agein his wille,

Leute shal don hym lawe and no lyf elles.
Shal no seriaunt for here seruyse were a silke
howue,

Ne no pelure in his cloke, for pledyng atte

barre.

Mede of mys-doeres maketh many lordes,

And ouer lordes lawes reuleth the rewmes.

3. Explain and refer to the context the following passages:

(a) Now worth this Mede ymaried al to a mansed schrewe.

(b) In normandie was he noughte noyed for

sake.

my

(c) He bare a burdoun ybounde with a brode liste. (d) Grace hatte the gateward.

(e) Ketten here copes and courtpies hem made. Metelees and monelees on Maluerne hulles, Musing on this meteles.

(f)

4. Explain the following terms:-Iangelers, listres, louedayes, orientales, possessioneres, prouisoures, regrateres, ribanes, wastoures, wernardes.

5. Give a summary of Chaucer's description of the Frere.

6. (a) From what sources did Chaucer derive the Knight's Tale? (b) What alterations did he make in the story? (c) What other English writers have dealt with the same subject?

7. Why is the Second Nonnes Tale of peculiar interest?

8. Explain and refer to the context the following

passages:

(a) I smelle a loller in the wynde.

(b) Euery thing that any foul may in his ledene

seyn.

(c) This fruyt cometh of the bicched bones two. (d) What is Magnesia, good sir, I yow preye? (e) Yet he hadde a thombe of gold.

(f) The nexte houre of Mars folwynge this.

9. Give the meaning and derivation of the following words: Corniculere, daliaunce, derreyne, fetys, foryelde, heronsewes, lichewake, plages, vese,

wonger.

10. Give the modern names of the following places, and state in what connexion Chaucer mentions them-Bethulia, Galice, Gootlond, Lettowe, Marrok, Palatye, Pemond, Saluces, Sarray, Surrye.

11. Write a short note on Chaucer's versification.

12. (a) Give the definite and the indefinite forms of the adjective in Middle English. (b) What inflexions, not now in use, are found in the

Middle English verb? (c) Mention some prepositions, adverbs, and conjunctions whose present meaning differs from that which they had in Middle English, giving the older meaning.

ENGLISH.

SECOND PAPER.

The Board of Examiners.

1. Enumerate the different kinds of evidence available for settling the dates of Shakspeare's plays. Show how they serve to fix a date for King Lear.

2. Write brief characters of Benedick, Gloucester, Laertes, Menenius.

3. (a) Sketch and criticize the plot of Much Ado about Nothing. (b) Point out any historical errors in Coriolanus.

4. In what plays does Shakspeare employ ingratitude as a leading motive? Show how he deals with it.

5. From what sources did Shakspeare derive the story of Hamlet? Give the dates of the earlier editions of this play, and point out some of the principal variations between them.

6. Explain fully and refer to the context the following passages :

(a) He set up his bills here in Messina.