duration of Fellowships to seven full years after taking the De- gree of Master.
2. From this it follows that the students constitute a special society, although not in the strictly legal sense a corporation ; and that all students of the College, although not members of the College Corporation (unless they be Fellows or Scholars of the College), are members of the University, whether the Uni- versity be a corporation or not : for it is by no means essential to an University that it should be a corporate body, in the mo- dern legal sense. It is in any case a Society ; and the privilege of taking all Degrees, in all Arts and Faculties, which Elizabeth's Charter grants to all students of Trinity College, binds them to- gether, as belonging to that Society, and makes them ipso facto on their matriculation members of the University.[1]
3. Again, it is to be observed that the students of the Col- lege, who alone are concerned in the privilege granted, are em- powered to take all the old Degrees of Bachelor, Master, and
Doctor, in all the old Studies, Arts, and Faculties, subject only
- ↑ This is the true ancient notion of an University. The University of Paris never had a Charter, Regal or Papal, although it has been recog- nised by both Sovereigns and Popes, and has been granted many privileges under the name of an University. "Ni les Diplomes des rois, ni les Bulles des Papes, n'onterigé formelle- ment les écoles de Paris en corps de l'Université. Cette compagnie est formeé d'elle meme par l'Association de ses membres," &c. — Halmagrand, Origine de V Université, p. 66. Oxford and Cambridge were not incorporated by an Act of Parliament, until 13 Eliz. c. 29, twenty one years only be- fore the foundation of the University of Dublin. Their corporate title is "The Chancellor, Masters, and Scho- lars of the University of Cambridge [or Oxford]," which no doubt was taken from their old designations, showing that their matriculated students, or Scholars, were members of the cor- poration of the University, and there is therefore no difficulty in supposing all students to be members of the Uni- versity of Dublin, although it is not a corporation. The Charter 21 "Vict, has indeed incorporated, most uselessly, the Senate of the University, but not the University itself The style and title of this new Corporation is, "The Chancellor, Doctors, and Masters of the University of Dublin." No men- tion is made of the Scholars or "Stu- diosi;" and therefore not all members, but only the governing members of the University, are incorporated. It is
