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Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Petition, filed in the Supreme Judicial Court on December 26, 1914, for permission to be examined for admission to the bar as an attorney at law in this Commonwealth. By an order of court the petition was referred to the board of bar examiners to report thereon to the court.
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Petition, filed in the Supreme Judicial Court on December 26, 1914, for permission to be examined for admission to the bar as an attorney at law in this Commonwealth. By an order of court the petition was referred to the board of bar examiners to report thereon to the court. The board reported that under the provisions of Rule 7 of the board of bar examiners in regard to general education the applicant was not yet eligible to take a bar examination, and that the provisions of Rule 7 were not in conflict with St. 1914, c. 670, and were still in force as to the question of eligibility. The case…
1Opinion of the CourtRugg, C. J.
This is a petition for examination for admission to the bar. The facts are these: The petitioner has completed three and two thirds years’ work at a high school in Fall River, without having graduated, has spent three years in the study of law at a law school and has graduated with the degree of LL.B., has taken and failed- to pass examinations for admission to the bar in June and again in December, 1913, and now desires to take the examination for a third time. He has complied with all the preliminary requirements except that part of Rule 7 of the “Rules of Board of Bar Examiners” relative…
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