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Alienability Of Future Interests In Tennessee, Ernest C. Matthews, Iii
Alienability Of Future Interests In Tennessee, Ernest C. Matthews, Iii
Vanderbilt Law Review
One of the most technical problems in the field of property law is the manner in which future interests in realty and personalty may be alienated. The term, future interest, is used here to mean a presently existing interest which is deprived of possession but which looks forward to possession in the future. The term is a misnomer. Such an interest is "future" only in the sense that it looks toward becoming possessory in the future. Just as future interests is a law of words, so the alienability of future interests is, in the absence of statute, a law of …
State Constitutions, State Courts And First Amendment Freedoms, Monrad G. Paulsen
State Constitutions, State Courts And First Amendment Freedoms, Monrad G. Paulsen
Vanderbilt Law Review
We have recently been reminded that one of the current and recurrent quandaries of the Supreme Court of the United States arises from the American constitutional system's counterpart of the philosophical problem of the One and the Many. When an individual's freedom is involved, the question is whether and to what degree state legislators, public officials and judicial officers shall be called upon to enforce standards of respect for personal liberties defined by the Federal Constitution and the United States Supreme Court; or, put another way, how far the first eight amendments of the Federal Constitution are incorporated into the …