COURT RULES. COURT OF CHANCERY OF NEW JERSEY. The following was promulgated as rule 222 | interested, may except to the allowance of on November 25, 1905: Rule 222. RECEIVERS OF PARTNERSHIP. Receivers appointed or directed to wind up the affairs of a partnership or pay its debts, shall give notice of their appointment, and notice to creditors to present their claims. These notices shall be similar (mutatis mutandis) to the notices required to be given by assignees under the general assignment act, and shall be published and mailed in the same manner. The court may, by special order, make other or different directions as to the notices to be given or the time or manner of their publication. At the expiration of three months from the time of appointment, the receiver shall file a list of the claims presented and proved. The receiver or any creditor or other person the whole or any part of any claim presented, of which exception notice shall be given to the claimant, and thereupon order shall be taken for adjudication upon the claim. The court may, by special order, make other or different directions as to the time or manner of presenting the list of claims. This rule shall not apply to receivers directed to continue a partnership business, unless by special order. On the same day the Chancellor altered rule 4 by adding, at the end of the first paragraph, the following: "And except, further, that the Tuesdays whereon the regular term of the court is opened, shall not be motion days at the Chancery Chambers at Newark." SUPREME COURT OF RHODE ISLAND. Rules of Practice. school in the country and the office of an attorney and counsellor, six months of which time of study, at least, shall in all cases have been in the office of an attorney and counsellor in this state; On the seventeenth day of July, A. D. | sellor at law, or two years in some law 1905, the following rules were adopted by the Supreme Court of the state of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, in session at Providence, to regulate the practice in actions and proceedings in said court, all other rules theretofore existing being rescinded: ATTORNEYS AND COUNSELLORS. 1. Any person desiring to be admitted to the bar may file his petition in the clerk's office setting forth: First. That he is a citizen of the United States, or has filed his declaration of intention to become a citizen; that he resides in this state; that he is over twenty-one years of age; and that he intends, if admitted, to practice law in this state. Or that, not having received a classical education, he has studied law three years in the office of an attorney and counsellor at law, or three years in some law school in the country and the office of an attorney and counsellor, six months of which time of study, at least, shall have been in the office of an attorney and counsellor in this state; Or that, having been admitted to the bar in some one of the United States, he has practiced law therein for more than three years and has studied law in the office of an attorney and counsellor in this state for the term of six months; Secondly.-Either that he has received a Or that, having been admitted to the bar classical education and has studied law two in some one of the United States, he has years in the office of an attorney and coun-practiced law for more than ten years. Such petition shall be endorsed by an at-, termine shall be allowed and paid to the torney and counsellor of this court, who members of the board by the clerk of the shall certify that the petitioner is of good court, from the fees received by him, under moral character and, in his opinion, a suit- the provisions of rule 1. able person for admission to the bar. Upon filing such petition the petitioner shall pay to the clerk a fee of ten dollars: Provided, that in case an applicant is unsuccessful in his first application he shall be required to pay, upon the filing of any subsequent petition, the sum of five dollars only. 2. Any person entering the office of an attorney and counsellor in this state as a student of law shall file forthwith, with the clerk, a certificate from such attorney that the student has begun a course of study in his office; and the term of study of such student for the purpose of these rules shall be computed from the time of the filing of such certificate in the clerk's office. 6. Every person who is admitted as an attorney and counsellor shall take in open court the following engagement: that I will demean myself as an attorney "I, do solemnly swear (or affirm) and counsellor of this court, and of all other courts before which I may practice as an attorney and counsellor, uprightly and according to law, and that I will support the Constitution and laws of this state, and the Constitution of the United States." 7. Members of the bar of other states not residing in this state will be permitted on motion to conduct or argue any case on trial in the courts of this state as heretofore, but no nonresident can be recognized as an attorney in any case for the purposes of endorsing writs, filing answers or pleas, or issuing or receiving notices or agreements. 3. Unless otherwise specially ordered, all petitions for admission to the bar shall be referred to a board of bar examiners of five members, appointed by the court. The mem8. Complaints against members of the bar bers of the present board shall hold office for for unprofessional conduct shall be made in the term of five years from the date of their writing and shall set forth specifically the several appointments; and hereafter one facts upon which the charge is based. Such member shall be appointed annually on the complaints when filed with the clerk will third day of March for the term of five years. be referred for examination and report thereThe court may remove any examiner at its on to a standing committee of five members pleasure and fill any vacancy in said board. of the bar appointed by the court. The mem4. The board of bar examiners shall in- bers of the present committee shall hold vestigate and verify the allegations in the office until the expiration of their respective petitions referred to them, shall ascertain terms of appointment, and vacancies as they the character, qualifications, and attain- occur hereafter will be filled by appointments of the several petitioners, and, unless ments for the term of three years. otherwise specially ordered, shall subject The members of this committee will be the petitioners to examination as to their excused from attendance in court when necknowledge of law, and shall report to the essary to fulfill engagements previously court upon each petition, with such recom-made to attend meetings of this committee. mendation as they shall think proper. If the board report that the petitioner is qualified and recommend his admission, then, unless the court otherwise order, he shall be admitted as an attorney and counsellor at law of this court, and as such shall be entitled to practice law in all the courts of this state. 5. The board of bar examiners shall determine the time and place of all examinations for admission to the bar, and shall notify the clerk of the time and place so fixed at least twenty days before the time for each examination; and said clerk shall publish in some one or more of the daily newspapers printed in the city of Providence, for the space of ten days before the time so fixed, a notice of such time and place and a list of the names and residences of the several applicants whose petitions shall have been referred to said board for action at the coming examination. Said board may make rules for their organization, conduct, and government, subject to the approval of the court. FILING AND ENTERING PETITIONS, THEREON. trials in which notice is necessary shall be 9. Notice on petitions for trials or new by citation issued by the clerk as of course, when the petition is filed, returnable at a time requested by the petitioner, not less than ten nor more than twenty days after the issue thereof, unless some other special notice shall be ordered by the court. Such citation shall be served at least ten days before the return-day, and the cause shall be placed by the clerk on the calendar of the court for hearing by the court on the returnday, of the citation, except that in vacation the citation shall be returnable on the first day on which the court will be in session, if said day shall not occur within twenty days from the date of citation. Cases in which the Supreme Court and superior court have original concurrent jurisdiction shall not be filed or received by the clerk of the Supreme Court without leave of Such compensation as the court shall de- the court. Such matters may be called up in open court, without previous filing, upon affidavits are admissible said counter affithe question whether the court will entertain davits shall be filed at least three days bejurisdiction. fore the day of trial, unless otherwise allowed by the court. The clerk is authorized to place other proceedings, original or appellate, in which the statute does not provide for notice upon the calendar of the court when requested by the moving party, upon the question of the notice to be given adverse parties of the pendency of proceedings. Every appeal, petition, complaint, or other application in writing to the court shall have the name of the attorney presenting the same endorsed thereon; and every paper filed in any case, excepting notes, deeds, or other documentary evidence, shall also have endorsed thereon the name and number of the case and a brief designation of the character of the paper. The only proof of the time of filing any paper shall be the file-mark of the clerk. DOCKETING. 10. All cases shall be docketed and numbered consecutively in the classes to which they respectively belong, except that the court may order a new series of numbers when it is deemed to be desirable. The classes will include the following: (1) Constitutional Questions. (2) Miscellaneous Petitions and Appeals. Petitions for extraordinary and prerogative writs and processes, and all appeals except appeals in equity, shall be docketed under "Miscellaneous Petitions and Appeals." Bills of exceptions, petitions for trials and new trials, actions in which agreed statements of fact have been filed, motions in arrest of judgment, and all questions certified from lower courts in actions or criminal proceedings shall be docketed under "Bills of Exceptions, etc." Proceedings in equity originally entered in the Supreme Court, appeals in equity, causes in equity certified to Supreme Court, and cases stated for opinions shall be docketed under "Equity." ASSIGNMENT OF CASES. 11. Assignments of cases for hearing may be made by agreement of parties for Monday, Wednesday, and Friday of each week during the session, except that cases will not be assigned for hearing on legal holidays, nor on Good Friday, Commencement Day at Brown University, and the two days before and the two days after Christmas Day. AFFIDAVITS. 12. In all petitions for new trials in which affidavits are admissible, the petitioner shall file his affidavits at least five days before the day set for hearing; and in case counter BILLS OF EXCEPTIONS, ETC. 13. Every petition for allowance of a bill of exceptions or for determining the correctness of a transcript of testimony in this court shall be verified by affidavit accompanying the petition, setting forth in full the rulings upon which the exceptions are based or the grounds of objection and all facts material thereto, and the petitioner shall within twenty-four hours after the filing of his petition deliver to the adverse party or his attorney of record a copy of the same and the affidavits annexed thereto. The adverse party may file counter affidavits within ten days after receiving the copies aforesaid, and the court may grant further time to the petitioner to reply in its discretion; and thereafter the petition shall stand for assignment and hearing on motion of either party. If the papers in the case shall not have of the petition, the court will order the same been transmitted to this court upon the filing transmitted when the exceptions are allowed. ARGUMENTS AND BRIEFS. 14. Forty-eight hours, at least, before the day for which any case is assigned for trial, each party shall file with the clerk of the court, for the opposite party, each of the justices, and the reporter, a printed or typewritten brief, signed by the counsel presenting it, which shall contain (1) a brief and concise statement of the case, (2) the specific questions raised, duly numbered, and (3) the points made, together with the authorities relied on in support thereof. In cases where it may be necessary for the court to go into an examination of record evidence, each party shall briefly specify in his brief the leading facts which he deems established by the evidence, with a reference to the pages where the evidence of such facts may be found. In case the briefs are typewritten, they shall be on good paper and distinctly legible. No tissue-paper briefs will be received. The size of the paper shall be eight inches by ten, with not less than one inch margin on each side. The size of type to be used in printing briefs shall be that used in the text of Rhode Island Reports, as near as may be. For the purpose of preservation and convenience of reference they shall be bound on the left side of the front page and not at the top. A party in default shall not be heard, except by leave of court. AGREEMENTS. 15. All agreements of parties or attorneys touching the business of the court shall be |