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Mortgage Drafting: Lessons From The Restatement Of Mortgages, Dale A. Whitman

Faculty Publications

The American Law Institute's adoption of the Restatement (Third) of Property: Mortgages may have significant impact on the negotiation and drafting of mortgages. Rather than merely reciting the prevailing case law, the Restatement proposes approaches the American Law Institute believes are desirable as a matter of sound policy. This Article highlights key areas in which the new Restatement may affect mortgage drafting and suggests useful techniques for mortgage drafters.

Tools For Inclusion: Americans With Disabilities Act (Ada) Title 1: Employment, Joe Marrone

Tools for Inclusion Series, Institute for Community Inclusion

Brief overview of the concepts and scope of the Americans with Disabilities Act, plus resource lists.

Tools For Inclusion: The Americans With Disabilities Act: General Overview, Karen Zimbrich

Tools for Inclusion Series, Institute for Community Inclusion

Brief overview of the concepts and scope of the Americans with Disabilities Act, plus resource lists.

Cclhp: Data As Microsoft Access File, Newton Key, Chris Waldrep, Michael Kroll, Mark Voss-Hubbard

Coles County Legal History

Table Cases Fields:

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Incident_Date

File_Date

Settlement_Date

Location

Case_Type

Dollar_Amount

Issue

Outcome

Ancillary_Catters

Memo

Transcribed

Additional_Info

Marked

Last_Modified

Table Parties

Record_Number

Case_Number

L_Name

F_Name

Sex

Occupation

Literate

Location

Additional_Info

Marked

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Queries

Cclhp: Case Types As Csv, Newton Key, Mark Voss-Hubbard, Michael Kroll, Chris Waldrep

Coles County Legal History

Single column, controlled vocabulary for case types

Cclhp: Cases As Csv, Newton Key, Mark Voss-Hubbard, Chris Waldrep, Michael Kroll

Coles County Legal History

Fields included: case_number Incident Date File Date Settlement Date Location Case Type Dollar Amount Issue Outcome Ancillary Matters Memo Transcribed Additional Information Marked Last Modified

Cclhp: Parties As Csv, Newton Key, Mark Voss-Hubbard, Michael Kroll, Chris Waldrep

Coles County Legal History

Fields included: Record Number case_number Actor (P D W or J) Last Name First Name Sex Occupation Literate Location Additional Information Marked Last Modified

Tadić, The Anonymous Witness And The Sources Of International Procedural Law, Natasha A. Affolder

Michigan Journal of International Law

This article explores the Trial Chamber's decision to allow the use of anonymous testimony as a protective measure in the wake of the final judgment in the Tadić trial. This initial decision, granting the prosecutor's request for protective measures including the withholding of four witnesses' identities from the accused, formed a precedent upon which later rulings for protective measures relied, both throughout the Tadić case and in subsequent cases before the International Tribunal.

Reforming The Law: The Payment Rule As A Paradigm , Dale A. Whitman

Faculty Publications

The concept of negotiability of promissory notes is solidly entrenched in American commercial law. It derives from the English common law notion that a negotiable instrument is a reification of the obligation it describes; the instrument is regarded as a tangible form of the obligation. This notion has multiple ramifications, but three stand out. The first is the holder in due course doctrine which asserts that, when a negotiable instrument is transferred by the correct process (negotiation, which requires delivery of the paper) to someone with the right qualities (good faith, lack of notice, and payment of value), the maker …