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nt son bill

. [get to the end of a simple clause.

. ‘ have adopted in this

“I certainly have set the example to: the “ House of drawing up such bills for the futureÿ ‘in an intelligible manner. Not being myself ‘ a lawyer, and ossessing, of course, no technical ‘ knowledge, I do confess, Sir, that, there is no: “ task which I contemplate with so much distaste, “ as the reading through an ordinary act of Parlia- “ment, In the first place, the long recapitula-. “ tions, the tedious re erences, the constant repe- “ titions, the providing or designating offences as “ punishments for the specific c2se of men, women “ and children, and for every degree and relation ‘“ in society, and the necessity of indicating these “ several personages and maîters by as many ap- “ propriate relations and designations, then the con- € fusion resulting from the ätiempt to describe, and ‘ constantly referring to many different deserip- ‘€ tions of property. Really, Sir, all these various ‘“ repetitions, recapitulations and references are so ‘ tedious and so perplexing, that I, for one, almost ‘ invariably find myself completely puzzled before The mode f bill, to obviate all this con-

} fusion and uncertainty (we see, then, that the : “’attempt at being absolutely distinct leads to

. “ grealer uncertainty

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instead of certainty) does.

‘seem to me, } speak with submission, much ‘ more eligible and precise, than the usual phra- “ seology, adopted in these acts, and might, I can-

:% not help thinking, be pursued with advantage in “bills which may be brought hereafter,”?

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Doyen et Professeur de Droit Publie, de Droit Romain, de Droit Contumier et de Droit Criminel, Maximilien Bibaud, Ecr., Docteur en Droit Civil et en Droit Canonique.

Professeur de Procédure Civile, J. A. A. Belle, Avocat.

Professeur d’Instrumentation, Maître L. O. Hétu,

N. P, Appariteur, Nazaire Bourgouin, Etudiant.

Les Cours de l'Ecole de Droit durent régulièrement deux années, bien que, pour de bonnes raisons, on puisse suppléer une année en l’étude du Doyen.

Les Professeurs de pralique donnent leurs cours en leurs études respectives dans les. mois de juin et juillet chaque année.