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Personal Property And Sales -- 1956 Tennessee Survey, J. Allen Smith
Personal Property And Sales -- 1956 Tennessee Survey, J. Allen Smith
Vanderbilt Law Review
The Right to Possession: In Shirley v. State' the Supreme Court of Tennessee held that a county court clerk could not be required to return money illegally gained by participation in a gambling game, which money had been confiscated by the sheriff and turned into court. Despite a theoretical difficulty arising from the absence in Tennessee of a statute authorizing forfeiture of gambling funds, the decision invoked the equitable principle that courts will not assist persons violating the law. For its result, the court relied in considerable measure on the New York case of Hofferman v. Simmons, which involved a …
Personal Property--Delivery Of Gifts In Kentucky, J. Leland Brewster
Personal Property--Delivery Of Gifts In Kentucky, J. Leland Brewster
Kentucky Law Journal
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