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State Utilities And The Supreme Court, 1922-1930, Thomas Reed Powell Jun 1931

State Utilities And The Supreme Court, 1922-1930, Thomas Reed Powell

Michigan Law Review

While enterprises that are "affected with a public interest" or "devoted to a public use" or that come within the class of strict public utilities may be compelled to do a number of things that strictly private enterprise may avoid, the power over utilities is not unlimited. Requirements deemed onerous may be contested as denials of due process of law. The constitutional issue thus raised under the Fourteenth Amendment entitles protestants to start injunction proceedings in federal courts and to seek appeals to the United States Supreme Court from unfavorable decisions of state courts. Often the complaint is not of …


Review: The Revival Of Natural Law Concepts, Fowler Vincent Harper May 1931

Review: The Revival Of Natural Law Concepts, Fowler Vincent Harper

Michigan Law Review

A Book Review of THE REVIVAL OF NATURAL LAW CONCEPTS By Charles Grove Haines.


Succession By Murderer-Applicability Of Constructive Trust Apr 1931

Succession By Murderer-Applicability Of Constructive Trust

Michigan Law Review

There do not seem to have been any decided cases in the early common law on the question whether a murderer could succeed to the title to property left by his victim, or derive any benefit from his crime. By the civil law the legal title passed to the criminal, and was afterwards confiscated by the state. What may be said to be the modem rule is not so definitely determined, The numerical majority of cases, beginning with the first case to be decided on the exact question in 1888, have held that he could not succeed. But the decisions …


Review: International Adjudications, Edwin D. Dickinson Apr 1931

Review: International Adjudications, Edwin D. Dickinson

Michigan Law Review

A Review of : INTERNATIONAL ADJUDICATIONS Edited by John Bassett Moore.


Review: Stephen J. Field: Craftsman Of Tbe Law., Everett S. Brown Apr 1931

Review: Stephen J. Field: Craftsman Of Tbe Law., Everett S. Brown

Michigan Law Review

A Review of: STEPHEN J. FIELD: CRAFTSMAN OF TBE LAW


Review: Annual Survey Of English Law 1929. London School Of Economics And Political Science (University Of London) Department Of Law., Everett S. Brown Mar 1931

Review: Annual Survey Of English Law 1929. London School Of Economics And Political Science (University Of London) Department Of Law., Everett S. Brown

Michigan Law Review

A Review of ANNUAL SURVEY OF ENGLISH LAW 1929. London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London) Department of Law.


Some Comments On The Reserved Power To Alter, Amend And Repeal Corporate Charters, Gustavus Ohlinger Feb 1931

Some Comments On The Reserved Power To Alter, Amend And Repeal Corporate Charters, Gustavus Ohlinger

Michigan Law Review

The old theories as to the nature, creation and powers of corporations which during the last hundred years have been obscured, but today are coming more and more to the fore in legal literature, in the adjudications of the courts, and in recent revisions of corporation acts suggest a re-examination of the power of state legislatures to alter, amend and repeal corporate charters under the reservations contained in many state constitutions and statutes, both as related to those theories and as they apply to recent and impending social and economic changes.


Legislative Principles, Carl H. Manson Jan 1931

Legislative Principles, Carl H. Manson

Michigan Law Review

A review of LEGISLATIVE PRINCIPLES By Robert Luce.