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The Public Service Of The Future Lawyer, John C. Park Dec 1909

The Public Service Of The Future Lawyer, John C. Park

Michigan Law Review

The lawyer has two characters. He is a private personage, and as such cares for his family, contributes to the local improvement and philanthropies and conducts the common business affairs of his clients. He is also a public functionary and as such his usefulness is not confined to appearance in court and the conduct of litigation. From him must be had the counsel necessary in public movements, his brain must plan and his hand write the rules necessary to make right and wrong govern modem conditions. His must be the thought which shall stir the people to action. In him …


Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review Nov 1909

Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

Bankruptcy--Trustee's Right to Enforce Stockholder's Statutory Liability; Bills and Notes--Failure of Consideration--When Maker is Estopped From Pleading It; Bills and Notes--Instrument Payable After Death--Whether Valid Obligation or of a Testamentary Character; Carriers--Interstate and Intrastate Commerce; Carriers--Regulations Relative to Shipment of Live Stock; Constitutional Law--Equal Protection of Laws--Foreign Corporations--Statute Forfeiting Right to Do Business; Constitutional law--Police Power--Personal Liberty--Photographing Persons Charged With Crime; Contempt--Murder of Prisoner Pending His Appeal; Counties--Action by Taxpayer--Compensation of Attorney; Criminal Law--What Constitutes a Disorderly House; Damages--Allowance of Attorney's Fees--rule in Hadley v. Baxendale Applied; Eminent Domain--Taking or Damaging Property--Noise and Smoke From Operation of Railroad; Equity--Illegal Contract--Duty …


Note And Comment, Ferris D. Stone, Dan B. Symmons, J. Earl Ogle Jr. Jun 1909

Note And Comment, Ferris D. Stone, Dan B. Symmons, J. Earl Ogle Jr.

Michigan Law Review

The Execution of the Insured for Crime as a Defense to the Insurer, the Policy Being Silent as to This Contingency; The Power of a Corporation to Hold and Vote Stock of Another Corporation; Effect of an Agreement Not to Compromise Without consent of Attorney Upon Contract for Contingent Fees; The Pennsylvania Supreme Court and The Pennsylvania Railroad Company


Note And Comment, Arthur Clarke, Floyd Olds, J. Earl Ogle Jr., James H. Brewster Feb 1909

Note And Comment, Arthur Clarke, Floyd Olds, J. Earl Ogle Jr., James H. Brewster

Michigan Law Review

Termination of the Liability as Common Carrier; Is a Vendee Seeking Specific Performance Entitled to Compensation for the Inchoate Dower Right of the Vendor's Wife?; An Executor's Right to an Allowance out of the Estate for Counsel Fees for Services Rendered Before Letters Testamentary Issue; The Kansas "Manhattan Cocktail Case" and Some Others Concerning Judicial Notice;