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Banks And Banking - Preferred Claims Of Savings Depositors - Set-Offs Jun 1932

Banks And Banking - Preferred Claims Of Savings Depositors - Set-Offs

Michigan Law Review

Members of the Michigan bar who have had to deal with perplexing receivership problems, growing out of the many recent bank failures, should welcome the case of Reichert v. Farmers & Workingmens Savings Bank, 257 Mich. 500, decided April 4, 1932. It involves twelve important questions in banking law, certified from the Jackson circuit court. The answers of the supreme court to these questions should serve to settle the law for the benefit of receivers and their counsel for years to come.


Presumptions - Constitutional Validity Of Statute Establishing Proof Of Reputation As Prima Facie Evidence Of Commission Of Crime Feb 1932

Presumptions - Constitutional Validity Of Statute Establishing Proof Of Reputation As Prima Facie Evidence Of Commission Of Crime

Michigan Law Review

The rise and sway of the gangster as a menace to American social and economic security has led, of late, to the employment of unique means of combating lawlessness. Faced by a tremendous increase in the difficulties lying in the path of those seeking the conviction of professional criminals for major crimes, the police and prosecutors often turn towards a means of fighting crime originally devised to make life uncomfortable for petty off enders. The enforcement of the pistol laws and the vagrancy statutes against millionaire gangsters, and repeated arrests on suspicion, have been resorted to as a means of …