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Vanderbilt Law Review

Administrative Law--Judicial Review of SEC Decisions--No-Action Letter Under Commission's Proxy Rules Procedures Has Sufficient Finality and Formality to be Reviewable

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Creditors' Rights--Section 77 Railroad Reorganization--Federal Priority Under Section 191 Denied; Interline Balance Claims Granted Priority Under Equitable Six-Months Rule

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Criminal Procedure --Breach of the Peace--State Peace Bond Statute Establishes Criminal Proceedings and Must Satisfy Requirements of Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses

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Criminal Procedure--Presumption of Innocence--Cautionary Instruction to Jury that Presumption of Innocence is Not Intended To Aid the Guilty To Escape is Not Misleading or Erroneous

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Landlord and Tenant Law--Warranty of Habitability Implied by Law …

Internationally Uniform Probate Law--A Method For Improving Administration Of Multinational Estates, John G. Webb, Iii

Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law

The need to coordinate succession laws of different nations was recognized as early as 1893 at the first Hague Conference where attempts were begun to coordinate the laws of succession on death through multilateral conventions. Notwithstanding so early an effort, however, the administration of multinational estates has remained plagued by diversity of national laws governing succession on death. The resulting confusion and inefficiency of administration has often frustrated the testamentary intentions of decedents of many nationalities. While no viable uniformity has been attained among nations, the need for consistency increases. Half a million United States civilian citizens live abroad, and …