junior college

junior college
A school offering courses of instruction on the level of difficulty for the first two years above high school level, irrespective of the breadth or variety of the field of education covered. Nixon-Clay Commercial College v Woods (Tex Civ App) 176 SW2d 1015, error ref. Best understood as a college providing instruction equivalent to the first two years of an ordinary college, intended to provide a general education so far as the period of study and instruction permits, also to qualify graduates to transfer to other colleges and universities for further work. Pollitt v Lewis, 269 Ky 680, 108 SW2d 671, 113 ALR 691. Not a common school or a public school. An no: 113 ALR 711.

Ballentine's law dictionary. . 1998.

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