Judge Neitzel's First Lecture Today

Judge Walter Neitzel, of Strassburg, Germany, will deliver the first of a series of 15 lectures on "The Principles of German Civil Law" this afternoon at 2 o'clock. These lectures will be given in the North Lecture Room of Austin Hall on Monday and Tuesday afternoons. Today's discourse, the subject of which is "Federal and States' Powers under the German Constitution," will be open to the public.

The first four lectures are introductory, and deal with the following subjects: 1--Federal and states' powers under the German constitution; 2--The courts and the judges; 3--Private and public law: their different branches (civil, commercial and constitutional law, procedure and the like) and the principal statutes relative thereto; 4--Outline of civil procedure.

The fifth lecture considers the German and the Roman law as the two sources of the modern civil law of Germany.

The last ten lectures are devoted to the German civil code: 6--Fundamental principles; 7--Select topics and cases; 8--Law of persons; 9--Juristic acts and their validity; 10--Contracts; 11--Torts; 12--Law of real and personal property; 13--Registration of land (Torrens system; 14--Domestic relations; 15--Inheritance law.