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Some Unscheduled Liabilities Of Trust Companies, Henry M. Bates
Some Unscheduled Liabilities Of Trust Companies, Henry M. Bates
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"The modern trust company, with its varied and highly developed functions, is a characteristic product of our present complex civilization... The trust company, as some one has said, has become the corporation's corporation, a sort of super-corporation.... The question then naturally arises, is there any law peculiar to trust companies?"
A Surety's Claim Against His Bankrupt Principal Under The Present Law, Evans Holbrook
A Surety's Claim Against His Bankrupt Principal Under The Present Law, Evans Holbrook
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"The peculiar three-sided relationship of principal, surety and creditor gives rise to many vexatious questions of law, and one of the most interesting is that of the relationship between surety and principal in the case of the latter's bankruptcy."
The Lien Or Equitable Theory Of The Mortgage--Some Generalizations, Edgar N. Durfee
The Lien Or Equitable Theory Of The Mortgage--Some Generalizations, Edgar N. Durfee
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The question is--What is the nature of the rights of a real property mortgagee in those jurisdictions which adopt the lien or equitable theory3 of the mortgage? In one sense this question calls for a full statement of the law of mortgages but that, of course, is not the sense in which the writer puts it. He means by it to put a broader and more scientific question--a question, be it at once confessed, of jurisprudence--yet a question which has an important bearing on, if it is not in fact conclusive of, several specific problems in the law, which will …
Is A Bank Check An Assignment Pro Tanto Of The Fund Or Deposit?, Ralph W. Aigler
Is A Bank Check An Assignment Pro Tanto Of The Fund Or Deposit?, Ralph W. Aigler
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Before the Negotiable Instruments Law there was a clear conflict of authority as to whether a check for a portion of the account to the credit of the drawer was an assignment pro tanto of the fund.