_Degree of B.C.L._ (Vol. vii., p. 38.).--On Feb. 25, 1851, a statute was
passed at Oxford, by Convocation, which requires that the candidate for the
degree of B.C.L. should have passed his examination for the degree of B.A.,
and attended one course of lectures with the Regius Professor of Civil Law.
In the case of particular colleges, twenty terms must have been kept: by
members of other colleges, twenty-four terms must have been completed. The
examination is upon the four books, or any part of them, of the _Institutes
of Justinian_, or works which serve to illustrate them in the science of
civil law, of which six months' notice is previously given by the Regius
Professor.
At Cambridge, a B.A. of four years' standing can be admitted LL.B. The
candidate must have passed the previous examination; attended the lectures
of the professor for three terms; be examined; and after four years'
standing, and residence of three terms, keep his act.