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Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review May 1904

Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

Administrator--Appointment of, on Disappearance of Person; Agency--collection of Notes--Possession of the Instrument--Apparent Authority; Appeal--Right to Appeal After Satisfaction of Judgment; Attorney and Client--divorce Cases--contingent Fees--Prevention of Reconciliation; Attorneys--disbarment--Attacking Honesty of Judge; Bankruptcy--city Taxes--Priority; Carriers--Death by Wrongful Act--Stipulations Avoiding Liability for Negligence Toward free Passenger--Validity and Effect; Carriers--signed Ticket not the Contract; Constitutional Law--Class Legislation--Use of Flag for Advertising Purposes; Constitutional Law--Jurisdiction of Equity to Try Title to Office--Injunction; Contract--Validity--Conditions Attached to Goods--Purchase by Retail Trader from Wholesale Trader with Notice; corporations--forfeiture of Charter--Mandamus; Corporations--Garnishment of Stockholder for Unpaid Subscription; Criminal Law--Self-Defense; Deeds--Delivery--Testamentary Disposition; Ejectment--Description--Verdict--Judgment; Ejectment--Equitable Title in Plaintiff; Evidence--Admissions--Abandoned Pleadings; …


Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review Apr 1904

Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

Acknowledgment--Who may Take--Stockholder; Action for Death of a Child-- Contributory Negligence; Adverse Possession--Computation of Time--Litigation in Land Office; Bankruptcy--Homestead--Jurisdiction of bankruptcy Court; Chattel Mortgages--Unidentified Number Among a Greater Number of Like Articles--Validity; Constitutional Law--Possession of Game fish in Closed Season; Constitutional Law--Special Act--Sunday Law; Contracts--Impossibility of Performance--Implied Condition; Contracts--Violation of Penal Statute--Transaction Void; corporations--Dissolution--Rights of Minority Stockholders; Corporations--Insolvency--Preferences to Officers; Equity--Jurisdiction--Partition--Oil Leases; Judgments--Absence of Jurisdiction--Injunction--Restraining Execution; Master and Servant--False Imprisonment--Duty of Merchant to Customers; Master and Servant--Fellow Servants--Assumed risks--Injuries to Servant While off Duty; Minor's enlistment in the Navy--Validity--Desertion--Arrest--habeas Corpus; Real Property--Rule in Shelley's Case--Wills; Specific Performance--Parol Contract--Part Performance; Suretyship--county …


Note And Comment, Michigan Law Review Apr 1904

Note And Comment, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

A National Incorporation Law; The Northern Securities Case; Controversies Between States; Liability of Members of Congress for Bribery; Exempting of Lawyers from Service of Civil Process While Attending Court; Law Governing the Validity of a Note Executed and Delivered in One State, But Payable in Another


Note And Comment, Michigan Law Review Mar 1904

Note And Comment, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

Is Commerce Between a State and a Territory Interstate Comerce?; Right of Court to Instruct upon the Failure of Defendant to Testify in a Criminal Action; The Last of the Kentucky Bank Cases, and the Relations Between the State and Federal Courts; The Last of the Kentucky Bank Cases--Federal Tax Judgementss in STate Courts; Power of the Court to Order a Physical Examination in Personal Injury Cases; The Porto Rican is not an Allien; Mimicry as Infringement of Musical Composition;


Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review Jan 1904

Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

Action to Quiet Title--Venue--change of Venue; Agency--Secret Commission--recovery of both Secret and Stipulated Commission; Attorney and Client--Attorney's Lien--Fund in Court; Bankruptcy--Discharge--New Promise; Bankruptcy--Exemptions--discharge; Bankruptcy--Judgment in Bastardy--Discharge; Banks and Banking--Trust funds--Misappropriation--Subrogation; Contracts--Agreement for Advertising in Street Cars--Breach While Executory--Measure of Damages; Contracts--Agreement to Build with Materials Furnished by Owner--Destruction by Vis Major; Conveyance of Pretended Title--Maintenance--Adverse Claimant--Real Party in Interest; Corporations--Fiduciary Relation Existing Between Directors and Stockholders; Corporations--Fiduciary Relation Existing Between Stockholders and Directors; Courts--Limited Jurisdiction--Effect of Counterclaim; Criminal Law--Burden of Proof--Reasonable Doubt--Insanity--Contradictory and Inconsistent Instructions; Criminal law--Evidence--competency of Wife--Manner of Showing Incompetency--Suppression of Evidence; Damages--Exemplary Damages Where Actual Damage Purely …


Note And Comment, Michigan Law Review Nov 1903

Note And Comment, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

The Law School-Changes in the Faculty--Readjustment of Courses of Study; Sir Frederick Pollock's Visit to Michigan; The Second Lecture--The Scales of Justice; The Development of Criminal Law; The Law of Reason; Corporations--railroads--Stockholding Corporations--Combinations in Restraint of Trade and Commerce--consolidation of Parallel and Competing Lines; Constitutional law--Classification--Limit of Judicial Construction;


Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review May 1903

Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

Agency--Action by Undisclosed Principal; Agency--Authority to Sell Land--Notice of Revocation by Record; Agency--Good Faith--Commissions; Bankruptcy--Intent of Insolvent; Carriers--Damages for Loss of Market--Carriage of Goods Destined for Enegies--Seizure of Ships; Constitutional Law--Cigarettes--Original Package; Constitutional Law--Municipal Corporations--Validity of Ordinance Requiring Union Label; Constitutional Law--Vested Rights--Alimony; Contract--Rescission as Affecting Rights of a Stranger to the Consideration; Contract--Public Policy--Agreement to ASsist Attorney to Secure Clients; Courts--contempt--Publication of Evidence in Newspapers; Criminal law--burglary--Sufficient Breaking; Criminal Law--Embezzlement; Damages--Exemplary--Parol License--Revocable--Trespass; Damages--Reversing Judgment for Defendant in Order to Give Plaintiff Nominal Damages; Deeds--Grantees--Constructions; Deeds--Reservation--Construction--Extent of Property; Deeds--Reservation--effectin Equity--Implied Trust; Fraudulent Conveyance--Who are Creditors--claimant in Tort Action; Highways--Street Car …


Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review Mar 1903

Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

Administrator--Debt Due From Him to the Estate--Effect of Administrator's Insolvency; Agency--Action by Undisclosed Principal--Abstractoer's Liability; Agency--Liability for Acting Without Authority; Agency--duty to Exercise Good Faith--Commissions; Bankruptcy--Preferences; Banks and Banking--Subagent--Collection; Conflict of Laws--Married Women--Note made in One State but Payable in Another, and Action Brought in the Third; Constitutional Law--bill of lading--Conclusive Evidence; Constitutional law--Eminent Domain--Right to Compensation Before Entry; Constitutional Law--Legislative Control of Municipal Contracts--Eight Hour Law; Constitutional Law--Privileges and Innumities of citizens--Statute Authorizing Personal Judgment on Constructive Service; Corporations--Notice to Corporators; Court--disturbance--Power to Prevent; Criminal Law--Commencement of Term of Imprisonment; Criminal Law--Depriving of Necessary Sustenance--Medicine; Deeds--Covenants that Run witht …


Note And Comment, Michigan Law Review Mar 1903

Note And Comment, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

Elections--vote of Idiot or Insane Person--Ascertaining How He Voted; "Meander Lines"--When They Should be Taken as boundaries, Rather Than the Water Line; Larcenty--Animals Ferae Nature--fish in Net; Constitutional Law--Compelling One to be a Witness Against Himself by compelling Him to Exhibit His Person for the Purpose of Procuring Evidence Against Him; Attachment Judgments--Allias Executions--Abandonment;


Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review Mar 1903

Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

Administrator--Debt Due From Him to the Estate--Effect of Administrator's Insolvency; Agency--Action by Undisclosed Principal--Abstractoer's Liability; Agency--Liability for Acting Without Authority; Agency--duty to Exercise Good Faith--Commissions; Bankruptcy--Preferences; Banks and Banking--Subagent--Collection; Conflict of Laws--Married Women--Note made in One State but Payable in Another, and Action Brought in the Third; Constitutional Law--bill of lading--Conclusive Evidence; Constitutional law--Eminent Domain--Right to Compensation Before Entry; Constitutional Law--Legislative Control of Municipal Contracts--Eight Hour Law; Constitutional Law--Privileges and Innumities of citizens--Statute Authorizing Personal Judgment on Constructive Service; Corporations--Notice to Corporators; Court--disturbance--Power to Prevent; Criminal Law--Commencement of Term of Imprisonment; Criminal Law--Depriving of Necessary Sustenance--Medicine; Deeds--Covenants that Run witht …


Note And Comment, Michigan Law Review Mar 1903

Note And Comment, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

Elections--vote of Idiot or Insane Person--Ascertaining How He Voted; "Meander Lines"--When They Should be Taken as boundaries, Rather Than the Water Line; Larcenty--Animals Ferae Nature--fish in Net; Constitutional Law--Compelling One to be a Witness Against Himself by compelling Him to Exhibit His Person for the Purpose of Procuring Evidence Against Him; Attachment Judgments--Allias Executions--Abandonment;


Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review Feb 1903

Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

Administrators--deduction of Debts--Statute of Limitations; Agency--Authority to Indorse Negotiable Paper; Agency--Notice--Adverse Interest; Carriers--United States Mail--Liability of Railroad Company for Negligent Loss of Registered Letter; Corporation--Capital Stock--Contracts to Repurchase; Criminal law--Contempt of Court--Concerted Action to Influence Trial; Damages--Sale of Realty--Breach of Vendor's Contract; Equity--Mistake of Law--Recovery of Money Paid for Improvements on Another's Land; Landlort and Tenant--Insolvent Corporation--Accruing Rent; Limitation of Actions--Mortgages; malicious Prosecution--Abuse of Process--Sending Claim to Anothe rState for Collection to Avoid Local Exemptions; Malicious Prosecution--Cevil Cases; Malicious Prosecution--Probable Cause; Marriage--Common Law--present Consent; master and Servant--Assumption of Risk--Neglect of Statutory; Master and Servant--Assumption of Risk--Neglectof Statutory Duty; Municipal Corporations--Local …


Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review Dec 1902

Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

Agency--Liability of Pincipal for Unknown Deceit of Agent; Action--Splitting Causes of--Injury to Person and Property; Attorney and Client--Jurisdiction of Equity over; Banks and Banking--Cashier--Notice; Carriers--Limiting Liability--Effect of Limitation in Case of Delivery After Notice to Stop in Transit; Carriers--Tort--Ejection of Passenger for Failure to Produce Ticket; Confict of Laws--Bona Vacatia--Rigth of Succession--"Mobilia Sequuntur Personam"; Conflict of Laws--Italian marriage--Deceased Husband's Brother; Conflict of Law--Equal Protection--Refusing Barbar's License to an Alien; Constitutional Law--Equal Protection--Requiring Examination of Graduate of Medical School of other States; Constitutional Law--Insurance Companies---Equal Protection of the Laws; Constitutional Law--Vested Right of Defense--Deprivation of Property Rights; Contract--Performance--Legal Holiday; Contract--Public Policy--Sale …


Note And Comment, Floyd R. Mechem Nov 1902

Note And Comment, Floyd R. Mechem

Michigan Law Review

The Law School; Trade-Mark -- Invented Word -- Words Expressing Character or Quality; State Quarantine Laws as Affecting Inter-State or Foreign Commerce; Druggist - Liability for Negligence; Constitutional Law -- Inter-State Commerce -- Charging More for Shorter Than for Longer Haul; Malicious Prosecution of Purely Civil Action Without Arrest of Person or Seizure of Property; is it Fraud for a Plaintiff to Conceal Defenses to his own Action?; Wills--Withnesses Signing Before Testator, Effect; Impeachment of Witness--Privileged Communication; Evidence--Dying Declaration; Partnership by Estoppel in Tort Cases; Color Distinctions--Separations of Passengers upon Street Cars; Mortgage of Furture Offspring of Animals owned by …