Matter of Beggs
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal from order of the General Term of the Supreme Court in the first judicial department denying appellant’s motion to set aside the report on character of a committee appointed to examine appellant on application for admission to practice as attorney and counselor and to admit said appellant. The facts sufficiently appear in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtFolger, J.
The statute (chap. 486, Laws of 1871) makes it the duty of the judges of this court, or a majority of them, to establish rules and regulations in relation to the admission of persons applying to be admitted as attorneys, etc. This is all the original power which that law confers upon this court, or the members of it.
It further provides that every male citizen aged twenty-one years, applying to be admitted, shah be examined by the justices of the Supreme Court, or a committee appointed by it, at a General Term; and if he shall be found to have complied with the rules and regulations prescribed…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- In re the GraduatesNew York Court of Appeals · 1860
3Cited by4 opinions
- In Re DurantSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1907
- O'brien's PetitionSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1906
- Chin v. New York State Board of Law ExaminersNew York Supreme Court · 1983
- Davidson v. New York State Board of Law ExaminersNew York Supreme Court · 1976