Candidates were received so easily that the examinations no longer deserved their name.

Bachelor's degrees and others were titles bought without study or trouble."-- Cf the "Memoires" of Brissot and the "Souvenirs of d'Audifret-Pasquier," both of them law students before 1789 .-- M.

Leo de Savigny, in his recent work, "Die franzoesischen Rechts facultaeten" (p.74 et seq.) refers to other authorities not less decisive.] [Footnote 6225: Reference is made to the synopsis of the Justitian code of civil and other Roman laws.

(SR.)] [Footnote 6226: Treaty of law written Roman jurists under Justitian in 533.

(SR.)] [Footnote 6227: Decree of March 19, 1807, articles 42, 45.] [Footnote 6228: The French Supreme Court.