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The Old Common Law And The New Trusts, Ditlew M. Frederiksen Dec 1904

The Old Common Law And The New Trusts, Ditlew M. Frederiksen

Michigan Law Review

T HE Civil Code of Porto Rico, our latest Roman American code, gives interesting proof of the fact that the two systems of law, the Roman and the English, which control most of the nations of the civilized world and their dependencies, are, in their essence, but slightly different enunciations of the same principles of natural justice. The parent of the Civil Code of Porto Rico1 is the Spanish Civil Code,2 in force in Spain since May I, 1889, and extended to Cuba, Porto Rico, and the Philippines on July 31, 1889. The Spanish Civil-Code is the result of the …


Doctrine Of Waiver, Colin P. Campbell Nov 1904

Doctrine Of Waiver, Colin P. Campbell

Michigan Law Review

There is probably no doctrine of our law so much neglected in scientific discussion, and in legal text-books, as this principle which forms the theme of our essay. The reason for this is difficult to assign, for in point of importance this doctrine takes first rank; and while its boundaries are somewhat confused with the lines of demarcation between the law of contracts and the doctrine of equitable estoppel, it is in reality based upon a body of well established principles. Although much confusion among the cases in which this doctrine has been applied must be conceded, this disorder may …