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Property Law and Real Estate

University of Michigan Law School

1921

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The Suspension Of The Absolute Power Of Alienation, Oliver S. Rundell Jan 1921

The Suspension Of The Absolute Power Of Alienation, Oliver S. Rundell

Michigan Law Review

In his Nature and Sources of Law, John Chipman Gray says, "The Common Law has often been reproached with the lack of precision and certainty in its definitions, but, in truth, it is a great advantage of the Common Law, and of the mode of its development by judicial decision, that its definitions are never the matters resolved by the cases; they are never anything but dicta. If at the end of the sixteenth, or of the seventeenth, or even of the eighteenth century, there had been definitions binding by statute on the Courts; if the meaning of 'contract', and …


Book Reviews, Herman W. Oliphant, Ralph W. Aigler Jan 1921

Book Reviews, Herman W. Oliphant, Ralph W. Aigler

Michigan Law Review

The Law of Contracts. Samuel Williston, Weld Professor of Law in Harvard University. New York. Baker, Voorhis & Co., 192o. In four volumes. Vol. I, pp. xxiii, 1155, Vol. II, pp. xxi, 1157-2329