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3. The jurisdiction of the various courts of this state and of the United States;

4. The various sources of our municipal law;

5. The general principles of the common law relating to property and personal rights and obligations;

6. The general grounds of equity jurisdiction and principles of equity jurisprudence;

7. Rules and principles of pleadings and evidence;

8. Practice under the civil and criminal codes of Nevada; 9. Remedies in hypothetical cases;

10. The course and duration of the applicant's studies. 3. The examiners will not be expected to go very much at large into the details of these subjects, but only sufficiently so, fairly to test the extent of the applicant's knowledge and the accuracy of his understanding of those subjects. and books which he has studied.

4. When the examination is completed and reduced to writing, the examiners will return it to this court, accompanied by their certificate showing whether or not the applicant is of good moral character and has attained his majority, and is a bona fide resident of this State; such certificate shall also contain the facts that the applicant was examined in the presence of the committee; that he had no knowledge or intimation of the nature of any of the questions to be propounded to him before the same were asked by the committee, and that the answers to each and all the questions were taken down as given by the applicant without reference to any books or other outside aid.

5. The fee for license must in all cases be deposited with the clerk of the court before the application is made, to be returned to the applicant in case of rejection.

RULE II.

In all cases where an appeal has been perfected, and the statement settled (if there be one) thirty days before the commencement of a term, the transcript of the record shall be filed on or before the first day of such term.

RULE III.

1. If the transcript of the record be not filed within the me prescribed by Rule II., the appeal may be dismissed

on motion during the first week of the term, without notice. A cause so dismissed may be restored during the same term, upon good cause shown, on notice to the opposite party; and unless so restored the dismissal shall be final, and a bar to any other appeal from the same order or judgment.

2. On such motion, there shall be presented the certificate of the clerk below, under the seal of the court, certifying the amount or character of the judgment; the date of its rendition; the fact and date of the filing of the notice of appeal, together with the fact and date of service thereof on the adverse party, and the character of the evidence by which said service appears; the fact and date of the filing. the undertaking on appeal, and that the same is in due form; the fact and time of the settlement of the statement, if there be one; and also, that the appellant has received a duly certified transcript, or that he has not requested the clerk to certify to a correct transcript of the record; or, if he has made such request that he has not paid the fees therefor, if the same have been demanded.

RULE IV.

1. All transcripts of record in civil cases shall be printed on unruled white writing-paper ten inches long by seven inches wide, with a margin, on the outer edge, of not less than two inches wide. The printed page, exclusive of any marginal note or reference, shall be seven inches long and three and one half inches wide. The folios, embracing ten lines each, shall be numbered from the commencement to the end, and the numbering of the folio shall be printed on the left margin of the page. Small pica solid is the smallest letter and most compact mode of composition allowed.

2. Transcripts in criminal cases may be printed in like manner as prescribed for civil cases; or, if not printed, shall be written on one side only of transcript paper, sixteen inches long by ten and one half inches in width, with a margin of not less than one and one half inches wide, fastened or bound together on the left sides of the pages by ribbon or tape, so that the same may be secured, and every part conveniently read. The transcript, if written, shall be in a fair, legible hand, and each paper or order shall be separately inserted.

3. The pleadings, proceedings, and statement shall be chronologically arranged in the transcript, and each transcript shall be prefaced with an alphabetical index, specifying the folio of each separate paper, order, or proceeding, and of the testimony of each witness; and the transcript shall have at least one blank fly-sheet cover.

4. No record which fails to conform to these rules shall be received or filed by the clerk of the court.

RULE V.

The written transcript in civil causes, together with sufficient funds to pay for the printing of the same, may be transmitted to the clerk of this court. The clerk, upon the receipt thereof, shall file the same and cause the transcript to be printed, and to a printed copy shall annex his certificate that the said printed transcript is a full and correct copy of the transcript furnished to him by the party; and said certificate shall be prima facie evidence that the same is correct. The said printed copy so certified shall also be filed, and constitute the record of the cause in this court, subject to be corrected by reference to the written transcript on file.

RULE VI.

The expense of printing transcripts, on appeal in civil causes and pleadings, affidavits, briefs, or other papers constituting the record in original proceedings upon which the case is heard in this court, required by these rules to be printed, shall be allowed as costs, and taxed in bills of costs in the usual mode.

RULE VII.

For the purpose of correcting any error or defect in the transcript from the court below, either party may suggest the same, in writing, to this court, and upon good cause shown, obtain an order that the proper clerk certify to the whole or part of the record, as may be required, or may produce the same duly certified, without such order. If the attorney of the adverse party be absent, or the fact of the alleged error or defect be disputed, the suggestion, except when a certified copy is produced at the time, must be

accompanied by an affidavit showing the existence of the error or defect alleged.

RULE VIII.

Exceptions or objections to the transcript, statement, the undertaking on appeal, notice of appeal, or to its service or proof of service, or any technical exception or objection to the record affecting the right of the appellant to be heard on the points of error assigned, which might be cured on suggestion of diminution of the record, must be taken at the first term after the transcript is filed, and must be noted in the written or the printed points of the respondent, and filed at least one day before the argument, or they will not be regarded.

RULE IX.

Upon the death or other disability of a party pending an appeal, his representative shall be substituted in the suit by suggestion in writing to the court on the part of such representative, or any party on the record. Upon the entry of such suggestion, an order of substitution shall be made and the cause shall proceed as in other cases.

RULE X.

1. The calendar of each term shall consist only of those causes in which the transcript shall have been filed on or before the first day of the term, unless by written consent of the parties; provided, that all civil cases in which the appeal is perfected, and the statement settled, as provided in Rule II., and the transcript is not filed before the first day of the term, may be placed on the calendar, on motion of the respondent, upon the filing of the transcript.

2. When the transcript in a criminal cause is filed, after the calendar is made up, the cause may be placed thereon at any time, on motion of the defendant.

3. Causes shall be placed on the calendar in the order in which the transcripts are filed with the clerk.

RULE XI.

1. At least six days before the argument, the appellant shall furnish to the respondent a printed copy of his points

and authorities, and within two days thereafter the respondeut shall furnish to the appellant a written or printed copy of his points and authorities.

2. On or before the calling of the cause for argument each party shall file with the clerk his printed points and authorities, together with a brief statement of such of the facts as are necessary to explain the points made.

3. The oral argument may, in the discretion of the court, be limited to the printed points and authorities filed, and a failure by either party to file points and authorities under the provisions of this rule, shall be deemed a waiver by such party of the right to orally argue the cause.

4. No more than two counsel on a side will be heard upon the oral argument, except by special permission of the court, but each defendant who has appeared separately in the court below, may be heard through his own counsel.

5. At the argument, the court may order printed briefs to be filed by counsel for the respective parties within such time as may then be fixed.

6. In criminal cases it is left optional with counsel either to file written or printed points and authorities or briefs.

RULE XII.

In all cases where a paper or document is required by these rules to be printed, it shall be printed upon similar paper, and in the same style and form (except the numbering of the folios in the margin) as is prescribed for the printing of transcripts.

RULE XIII.

Besides the original, there shall be filed ten copies of the transcript, briefs, and points, and authorities, which copies shall be distributed by the clerk.

RULE XIV.

All opinions delivered by the court, after having been finally corrected, shall be recorded by the clerk.

RULE XV.

All motions for a rehearing shall be upon petition in writing, and presented within ten days after the final judg

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