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University of Michigan Law School

1929

English law

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The Fifteenth Century-The Dark Age In Legal History, Joseph F. Francis Apr 1929

The Fifteenth Century-The Dark Age In Legal History, Joseph F. Francis

Michigan Law Review

Everywhere during the last few decades there has been a revolution in the thinking of educated men. I refer to the revolution in logical method and thought that had its impetus first in the non-Euclidian mathematicians. was then carried on by the logicians and philosophers and finally culminated in the startling conclusions announced by Einstein. This revolution has been an attack on absolutism and on the metaphysical nonentities that pervade all man's learning. The attack is not new, it is only new in vigor, in scope, and in promise.


The Scope Of Judicial Review, Edson R. Sunderland Feb 1929

The Scope Of Judicial Review, Edson R. Sunderland

Michigan Law Review

There was nothing known to the common law which was, or could properly be called, a true appeal from one court to another, and this was so in England until the judicature act of 1873. There were, however, certain imperfect and restricted methods by which some sort of redress could be had for an unjust decision.


Forestalling, Regrating And Engrossing, Wendell Herbruck Feb 1929

Forestalling, Regrating And Engrossing, Wendell Herbruck

Michigan Law Review

The earliest attempts in English Law to regulate trade are to be found in the enactments against forestalling, regrating and engrossing and in them, it has been asserted, is the basis of our modern legislation against monopolies and combinations in restraint of trade. Aside, however, from the mention that is occasionally made of these crimes in connection with the history of the laws of trade, the words as a part of legal terminology are almost obsolete, although the word "forestalling" is used to define a crime punishable under the laws of Ohio and doubtless is to be found in other …