TAYLOR'S LAW SCHOOL, 1822.
THE Subscriber having lately, at the request of some of his old friends and pupils, undertaken the professional tuition of an additional number of Students, to whose improvement his constant residence at home enables him to pay more attention than heretofore, is encouraged to believe that his mode of instruction may be rendered more extensively useful by being made public.
He is desirous of affording to the youth of the country an opportunity of acquiring a scientific knowledge of their own Laws without the inconvenience and expense of seeking it in other States, and of assisting them in a course of studies which even to those who are not destined to the profession, is of great importance in the ordinary affairs of social life, and seem necessary to the completion of an education adapted to the duties imposed by our free institutions.
In addition to his present plan of weekly examinations, after a certain line of study, he proposes to commence in the last week in March, a Course of Lectures on the Common and Statute Law of the State as it now exists, incorporating into the text of the Common Law the modifications introduced by our acts of the Legislature, and referring the Student to the elementary books for the history and changes of British jurisprudence. This course, when completed, is intended to exhibit a systematic, though compendious view of our own law, so that there may be some one Work from which at least a general knowledge of it may be gathered. But the solid advantages offered to the Student, are frequent examinations and conversations on legal and literary topics, an extensive Law Library, the practice of drawing pleadings and discussing law questions; on all which subjects rules will be exhibited in the office, and a more distinct notice hereinafter given.
Board may be obtained within a few hundred yards of the office at $108 per annum, and more distant from it at $132; but at the latter house none but law students will be received.
Feb. 14, 1822. John Louis Taylor.
—Raleigh Register, February 15, 1822.
THE next Session of this Institution begins on Monday next, and the Examinations and Lectures will be resumed on the following Friday. It is recommended to Students of more than six months standing to furnish themselves with a set of Blackstone's Commentaries, for the purpose of making such annotations, indicative of the alteration of the Law as may be suggested in lecturing or in conversation on legal topics, and will be permanently useful to them.
3l8t July, 1822. John Louis Taylor.
—Raleigh Register, August 2, 1822.
(Source: North Carolina Schools and Academies, 1790-1840, By Charles L. Coon 1914)
