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Supreme Court Reverses Itself On Quest Of Party Walls--Right Of The Assignee Covenantor To Sue, Anne Slifkin Dec 1927

Supreme Court Reverses Itself On Quest Of Party Walls--Right Of The Assignee Covenantor To Sue, Anne Slifkin

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.


Real Property--Bill To Remove Cloud When Remedy At Law Is Adequate, Clara Dwight Whitten Dec 1927

Real Property--Bill To Remove Cloud When Remedy At Law Is Adequate, Clara Dwight Whitten

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.


Compensation To Landowners For Property Lying Within Limits Of Ancient Turnpikes, Upon Change In Traveled Way, Robert T. Donley Dec 1927

Compensation To Landowners For Property Lying Within Limits Of Ancient Turnpikes, Upon Change In Traveled Way, Robert T. Donley

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.


Future Interests--A Fee Limited Upon A Fee By The Deed--Heir Construed As Heir Of The Body, Howard Caplan Dec 1927

Future Interests--A Fee Limited Upon A Fee By The Deed--Heir Construed As Heir Of The Body, Howard Caplan

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.


Mortgages-Sale Under Trust Deed Mortgage For Inadequate Price-Effect Nov 1927

Mortgages-Sale Under Trust Deed Mortgage For Inadequate Price-Effect

Michigan Law Review

The defendant, administrator of the estate of the mortgagee, bought the mortgaged property at the foreclosure sale for one thousand dollars. He bought for himself and not for the estate. He sold the property to a third party for three thousand five hundred dollars. The plaintiff mortgagor brought this suit to compel the defendant to account for the two thousand five hundred dollar difference between the price he paid for the property, and the amount he received for it, allowing a credit for the amount still due on the plaintiff's note-two thousand dollars. Held, where, as in this case, …


Constitutionality Of Municipal Zoning And Segregation Ordinances, George D. Hott Jun 1927

Constitutionality Of Municipal Zoning And Segregation Ordinances, George D. Hott

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.


Changes In Washington Land Title Record Law, F. C. Hackman Jun 1927

Changes In Washington Land Title Record Law, F. C. Hackman

Washington Law Review

Among the many laws enacted by the recent Legislature, which were approved by the Governor, and took effect at 12 o'clock midnight June 8, is one which governs the filing of land title instruments for recordation and repealing the existing statute, Section 10596 of Remington's Compiled Statutes. The title and the sections of this act material to this discussion are set forth below.


A Re-Interpretation Of Gee V. Pritchard Jun 1927

A Re-Interpretation Of Gee V. Pritchard

Michigan Law Review

It has been said that the office and jurisdiction of equity unless enlarged by express statute are limited to the protection of rights of property. This doctrine, often repeated, has been so severely criticized and so strained in its application that one is inclined to doubt that it has appreciable vigor at the present time. Yet to borrow the phrase in which a learned writer disposed of another of equity's hoary errors, "though we may observe that the rule is dying, it is unfortunately not yet a corpse; and the difficulty is that no lawyer knows when it will be …


Methods Of Making Gifts For Charitable Or Public Uses, J. W. Simonton Jun 1927

Methods Of Making Gifts For Charitable Or Public Uses, J. W. Simonton

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.


Federal Liens, Charles C. White Apr 1927

Federal Liens, Charles C. White

West Virginia Law Review

It is the purpose of this paper to discuss the various liens, arising under United States laws or statutes, that may affect the title to real estate. Since the writer discussed the subject of bankruptcy at the 1922 meeting of this association no discusison of that subject is included in this paper.


Intoxicating Liquors-Rights Of Innocent Owner Under Statutory Forfeiture Of Automobile Apr 1927

Intoxicating Liquors-Rights Of Innocent Owner Under Statutory Forfeiture Of Automobile

Michigan Law Review

One Harve Townsend pleaded guilty to the charge of transporting intoxicating liquor in an automobile. A statute in South Dakota provided that in such cases the automobile or other vehicle used for such transportation should be forfeited, and, "unless good cause is shown to the contrary by the owner," it should be sold by the sheriff of the county and the funds paid to the county treasurer after the deduction of all expenses. The appellant had a valid chattel mortgage on said automobile, and claimed that it had a prior right to the proceeds of the sale of said automobile …


Recent Important Decisions Apr 1927

Recent Important Decisions

Michigan Law Review

A collection of recent important court decisions.


Landlord And Tenant--Tenancy At Will Of The Lessee, J. V. S. Apr 1927

Landlord And Tenant--Tenancy At Will Of The Lessee, J. V. S.

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.


The Supreme Court And Zoning Legislation, J. H. Toelle Apr 1927

The Supreme Court And Zoning Legislation, J. H. Toelle

Indiana Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Park's Cases On Mortgages, Robert C. Brown Apr 1927

Park's Cases On Mortgages, Robert C. Brown

Indiana Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Cases On Mortgages, By James Lewis Parks (1926), Crawford M. Bishop Feb 1927

Cases On Mortgages, By James Lewis Parks (1926), Crawford M. Bishop

Washington Law Review

No abstract provided.


Mechanic's Liens On Mortgaged Automobiles, Vert C. Fraser Jan 1927

Mechanic's Liens On Mortgaged Automobiles, Vert C. Fraser

Kentucky Law Journal

No abstract provided.


The Right Of A Finder Depends Upon The Locus In Quo, W. Lewis Roberts Jan 1927

The Right Of A Finder Depends Upon The Locus In Quo, W. Lewis Roberts

Kentucky Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Kentucky Rule As To Tacking Interests In Adverse Possession, H. H. Grooms Jan 1927

Kentucky Rule As To Tacking Interests In Adverse Possession, H. H. Grooms

Kentucky Law Journal

No abstract provided.


The Rights Of Finders Of Lost Property, Roy Mitchell Moreland Jan 1927

The Rights Of Finders Of Lost Property, Roy Mitchell Moreland

Kentucky Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Mechanic's Liens On Mortgaged Automobiles, Richard C. Stoll Jan 1927

Mechanic's Liens On Mortgaged Automobiles, Richard C. Stoll

Kentucky Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Does The Place Where A Lost Article Is Found Determine The Rights Of The Finder?, Roy Mitchell Moreland Jan 1927

Does The Place Where A Lost Article Is Found Determine The Rights Of The Finder?, Roy Mitchell Moreland

Kentucky Law Journal

No abstract provided.