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The Present Status Of "Illusory" Trusts-The Doctrine On Newman V. Dore Brought Down To Date, Edward A. Smith
The Present Status Of "Illusory" Trusts-The Doctrine On Newman V. Dore Brought Down To Date, Edward A. Smith
Michigan Law Review
It has long been the policy of the law to provide for a widow by setting aside some portion of her deceased husband's estate for her future support. Such a policy, it has been said, dates back to the laws of Hammurabi and later evidences of it may. be found in the Justinian Code of the Roman Law, and in English law from the earliest times; its final manifestation being in the well-known common law dower. It is not with dower, however, that we are here concerned, for that institution is sufficiently well understood to require no discussion in this …
Damages - Effect Of Defendant's Tender Of Specific Restitution Upon Plaintiff's Action To Recover The Value Of Property, William H. Kinsey
Damages - Effect Of Defendant's Tender Of Specific Restitution Upon Plaintiff's Action To Recover The Value Of Property, William H. Kinsey
Michigan Law Review
A person who has appropriated the land or chattels of another may prefer to return the subject matter rather than be held liable for its money equivalent in a law suit brought by the rightful owner. Whether the appropriator will improve his position by tendering specific restitution presents an interesting question. Because of the numerous remedies at the owner's disposal, it is impossible to formulate a single, concise answer.
Slander Of Title - Nature Of The Action - Statute Of Limitations, Herbert R. Whiting
Slander Of Title - Nature Of The Action - Statute Of Limitations, Herbert R. Whiting
Michigan Law Review
Plaintiff brought an action to recover damages occasioned by certain letters, alleged to be false and malicious, written by the defendant of and concerning the title to plaintiff's property. Since the letters were written more than one year prior to the commencement of the action, defendant argued that the action was barred by a clause in the local statute of limitations providing that "actions for libel and slander shall be commenced within one year after the cause of action shall have accrued." On the other hand the plaintiff asserted that the case came under the statute's two-year limitation of actions …
Bankruptcy - Debts Not Affected By A Discharge - Goods Purchased When Insolvent With No Intent To Pay, William C. Wetherbee Jr.
Bankruptcy - Debts Not Affected By A Discharge - Goods Purchased When Insolvent With No Intent To Pay, William C. Wetherbee Jr.
Michigan Law Review
Respondent was suing the debtor in a municipal court of Georgia for goods purchased on account. When the debtor was ajudicated a bankrupt, the respondent changed his action from contract to tort by alleging that the bankrupt had purchased the goods when insolvent with no intent to pay for them. A judgment was obtained by respondent and the bankrupt subsequently received a discharge in bankruptcy. The bankrupt now asks that the respondent be enjoined from further proceeding to enforce this judgment by garnishment or in any other manner. Respondent claims that the judgment was not discharged since it was a …
Insurance - Insurable Interest - Occupant Or Possessor Of Realty, Raymond H. Rapaport
Insurance - Insurable Interest - Occupant Or Possessor Of Realty, Raymond H. Rapaport
Michigan Law Review
Plaintiff sued upon an insurance policy, issued to her by the defendant, covering a building in which she was conducting a merchandising business. The building was owned in fee by the plaintiff's father-in-law, who had told the plaintiff that she might occupy it so long as she wished, and that he intended to deed it to her and her children. Held, plaintiff had an insurable interest in the building. Liverpool & London & Globe Ins. Co. v. Bolling, (Va. 1940) 10 S. E. (2d) 518.
Corporations - Parent's Liability For Subsidiary's Obligations, Michigan Law Review
Corporations - Parent's Liability For Subsidiary's Obligations, Michigan Law Review
Michigan Law Review
A parent corporation owned all the stock of a subsidiary which it had organized to hold real estate, its own business being mercantile. The directors and officers of both corporations were identical. The subsidiary sublet premises for ninety-nine years, in turn leasing them to the parent for ten years. Improvements were made in accordance with the subsidiary's contract, and "leasehold trust certificates" were issued by an assignee of the underlying lease. The parent quit the premises before the expiration of its lease, but paid the rent for the whole period. The subsidiary then defaulted on the ninety-nine year lease, having …
The Vendee's Lien- On Land And Chattels
The Vendee's Lien- On Land And Chattels
Michigan Law Review
The vendee's lien is now firmly established as an equitable device to insure full restitution to the purchaser of land on his rescission for the vendor's fraud or default. It first appeared in a dictum in an early English case where it was suggested as a possible analogy to the implied vendor's lien for the purchase money. But it was 1855 before the question was presented squarely to an English court of record, and 1860 when the House of Lords definitely approved it. Long before this, however, courts of equity in the United States had begun to μse this device …
Mortgages-Given Without Consideration But Intended As Gift
Mortgages-Given Without Consideration But Intended As Gift
Michigan Law Review
Statements that no mortgage is good unless there is consideration therefor are common; but that such statements are entirely true is very doubtful. Jones, in his book, Mortgages, makes such a statement, and then in the same section tells us that a mortgage intended as a gift will be enforced against all but prior creditors of the mortgagor. Wiltsie, in his book, Mortgage Foreclosures, states that want of consideration is a good defense, with some exceptions which are not clearly indicated. And Tiffany, in his work on Real Property, suggests that although a mortgage without consideration might be valid as …
Estates-Tenancy By Entireties--Ability Of Judgment Creditor To Reach Tenant's Interest
Estates-Tenancy By Entireties--Ability Of Judgment Creditor To Reach Tenant's Interest
Michigan Law Review
Shortly after the plaintiff's judgment had been docketted and a fruitless attempt made to have it satisfied, the defendant and his wife became devisees of some land, holding it as tenants by entireties. Knowing his wife to be in poor health and fearing he might survive her, the defendant persuaded her to join in a conveyance to their granddaughter for only a nominal consideration. Both women were unaware of the defendant's real motive, but the defendant himself understood the effect of what he was doing and was anxious to place the land beyond the plaintiff's reach. Held, that the …
Property-Meander Lines As Boundaries
Property-Meander Lines As Boundaries
Michigan Law Review
In a recent decision the supreme court of Michigan has considered anew, and with refreshing insight, the significance of a meander line as a boundary. The case arose on a bill to foreclose a land contract to which the defendant filed a cross-bill alleging fraud in the sale. The property which abutted on Lake Michigan was represented by plaintiff's agent as extending to a point about one hundred feet from the shore of the lake. The meander line was two hundred seventy-seven feet from the water's edge. On the theory that the plaintiff had no interest in the strip between …