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  • This amendment bill introduces a uniform, undergraduate, four-year legal qualification, to be named a baccalaureus legum degree, in the stead of the present LLB and B Proc degrees, which will enable a person to enter any branch of the legal profession.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1997

  • Middle Temple, who was at Corpus Christi College at Oxford, and who was made a _baccalaureus_ there on February 23, 1592.

    Shakspere and Montaigne Jacob Feis

  • He matriculated at Leipzig in 1456, received the degree of baccalaureus in 1457, and of magister in 1460.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913

  • He studied at the University of Vienna where he is mentioned as baccalaureus in the faculty of Arts in 1385.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip 1840-1916 1913

  • He had early resolved that the boy should follow his own honourable profession, and Peter Blood, being quick to learn and oddly greedy of knowledge, had satisfied his parent by receiving at the age of twenty the degree of baccalaureus medicinae at Trinity College, Dublin.

    Captain Blood Rafael Sabatini 1912

  • The gentle boy who, with innocent reverence, makes his visit of courtesy to the foreign teacher, bringing for gift a cluster of iris-flowers or odorous spray of plum-blossoms, -- the boy who does whatever he is told, and charms by an earnestness, a trustfulness, a grace of manner rarely met with among Western lads of the same age, -- is destined to undergo the strangest of transformations long before becoming a baccalaureus.

    Japan: an Attempt at Interpretation Lafcadio Hearn 1877

  • Hic iacct magifter Jo H AN N Es DE LA Pole, filius domini Michae lis DE LA Pole, quondam comitis Suffblcie baccalaureus vtriufque iuris, cano - nicus in ecclefia catbedrali £bor. ac in ecclelia collegiata de Beverley, qui ob.

    Antient funeral monuments, of Great-Britain, Ireland, and the islands adjacent 1767

  • _baccalaureus_ first appears at the university of Paris in the 13th century in the system of degrees established under the auspices of Pope Gregory

    Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" Various

  • Artium baccalaureus (bachelor of arts), anno Domini (in the year of our

    Higher Lessons in English A work on english grammar and composition Brainerd Kellogg

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