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Full-Text Articles in Law
Purchase Money Resulting Trusts In West Virginia, Donald F. Black
Purchase Money Resulting Trusts In West Virginia, Donald F. Black
West Virginia Law Review
No abstract provided.
Non-Assignment Provisions In Land Contracts, Edwin C. Goddard
Non-Assignment Provisions In Land Contracts, Edwin C. Goddard
Michigan Law Review
Many a sale of real estate is made to a purchaser who lacks the ready cash to pay the price. A deed of conveyance may be given with a mortgage back for the unpaid portion of the purchase price. But more and more in recent years the vendor has given a contract to convey conditioned upon the making of periodical payments of stipulated amounts, a deed to be given when the whole or a stated portion of the purchase price has been paid. The initial payment may be very small, and not infrequently the periodic payments are little more than …
Vendor And Purchaser-Right Of Purchaser To Exoneration As To A Prior Vendor's Lien
Vendor And Purchaser-Right Of Purchaser To Exoneration As To A Prior Vendor's Lien
Michigan Law Review
The case of McClure v. Southfield Woods Corporation, decided by the Michigan supreme court last year, raised an interesting question as to whether a contract vendee of land which is included in a tract subject to a pre-existing vendor's lien has a right of exoneration against his vendor as to such incumbrance. The plaintiff in that case had sold land to the Southfield Woods Corporation by a contract which provided for joinder of the vendor and vendee in a subdivision plat and for release of any lots from the vendor's lien upon payment of a stipulated sum, in addition …
Mortgages-Given Without Consideration But Intended As Gift
Mortgages-Given Without Consideration But Intended As Gift
Michigan Law Review
Statements that no mortgage is good unless there is consideration therefor are common; but that such statements are entirely true is very doubtful. Jones, in his book, Mortgages, makes such a statement, and then in the same section tells us that a mortgage intended as a gift will be enforced against all but prior creditors of the mortgagor. Wiltsie, in his book, Mortgage Foreclosures, states that want of consideration is a good defense, with some exceptions which are not clearly indicated. And Tiffany, in his work on Real Property, suggests that although a mortgage without consideration might be valid as …
Railroads-Right To Drill For Oil Or Gas On Right Of Way
Railroads-Right To Drill For Oil Or Gas On Right Of Way
Michigan Law Review
A railroad had acquired a one-hundred-foot strip of land through a farm, the deed describing the land granted by metes and bounds, and "for railroad purposes only." For fifty years the defendant has continuously used the strip for railroad purposes. The plaintiff, who became owner of the farm and successor to whatever rights in the strip remained to his grantor, sought to enjoin the defendant from drilling for oil and gas in the strip. Held, that the railroad had purchased a fee simple absolute in the strip and was therefore entitled to develop its own minerals. Quinn v. Pere …
Pleading - Joinder Of Parties - Successive Converters
Pleading - Joinder Of Parties - Successive Converters
Michigan Law Review
A chattel mortgagee brought an action for conversion against successive purchasers of mortgaged property, wrongfully sold by the mortgagor. Held, the joinder was improper. Each defendant was guilty of a separate conversion giving rise to a separate cause of action. They cannot be joined as each cause does not affect both defendants. Warren, J., dissented, Northern Finance Corp. v. Midwest Commercial Credit Co. et al. (S. D. 1931) 239 N. W. 242.
Mortgages -Assignment In Good Faith After Maturity Cuts Off Prior Latent Equities
Mortgages -Assignment In Good Faith After Maturity Cuts Off Prior Latent Equities
Michigan Law Review
M executed a negotiable note payable to the order of P, secured by a mortgage. After maturity, P assigned the note and mortgage without his indorsement to X for value. Y procured an assignment of these from X by fraud and in turn assigned them to Z, a purchaser without notice and for value. In Z's suit to foreclose the mortgage, X intervened, demanding the delivery of the same to himself. Held, Z's bona fide purchase cut off X's latent equity. Frank v. Brown, 255 Mich. 415, 238 N. W. 237 (1931).
Quasi-Contracts -Assumpsit For Use And Occupation Against A Trespasser In Modern Cases
Quasi-Contracts -Assumpsit For Use And Occupation Against A Trespasser In Modern Cases
Michigan Law Review
Perhaps the doctrine of stare decisis is sometimes deserving of severe criticism in its application to matters of substantive law; but the unfortunate results of uncritical adherence to precedent appear most clearly in regard to rules of procedure, where the demand for certainty cannot be justified by a supposed reliance of laymen on "settled" rules. The evils are aggravated where inconvenient decisions are not undermined or their effects evaded by the lawyer's typical process of "distinguishing'' cases. A forcible illustration is the firm refusal of most courts to extend quasicontractual relief to cases of use and occupation of land by …
Property - Ownership Of Land
Michigan Law Review
In a suit to foreclose a purchase-money mortgage, the defendant counterclaimed for a breach of covenant against incumbrances on the ground that a right had been acquired to construct a sewer across the premises at a depth of over 150 feet. The court held that this was not an incumbrance within the covenant as title did not extend to a depth beyond which the owner might reasonably use. Boehringer v. Montalto, 254 N. Y. S. 276 (1931).
Bailments - Innkeepers - Liability For Loss Of Baggage
Bailments - Innkeepers - Liability For Loss Of Baggage
Michigan Law Review
Plaintiff, a guest at defendant's hotel, on his arrival there gave his trunk check to the head porter who, in turn, gave the check to a licensed expressman. Due to the expressman's negligence the trunk was stolen. At the trial it was shown that it was customary for the defendant to make a separate charge for trunk delivery. Held, defendant was liable for the negligent performance of the contractual duties by the expressman. Davidson v. Madison Corp. (N. Y. 1931) 177 N. E. 393.
Licenses - Revocability Of Executed License - Fraud On Licensee
Licenses - Revocability Of Executed License - Fraud On Licensee
Michigan Law Review
Plaintiff and defendant were owners of adjoining city lots. At plaintiff's suggestion they constructed a common driveway, half on each lot, defendant refusing, however, to exchange reciprocal deeds therefor. Plaintiff built his house and garage to conform to the location of the drive. After long-continued use, defendant blocked his half of the drive. Inasmuch as building a new drive entirely on his own land would necessitate expensive structural changes in his house and garage, plaintiff sought an injunction. Held, that plaintiff had only a license, revocable even though acted upon, and that defendant's revocation was not such a fraud …
Landlord And Tenant-Estoppel Of Tenant To Deny Landlord's Title
Landlord And Tenant-Estoppel Of Tenant To Deny Landlord's Title
Indiana Law Journal
No abstract provided.
Matrimonial Domicil And Marital Rights In Movables, Arthur Leon Harding
Matrimonial Domicil And Marital Rights In Movables, Arthur Leon Harding
Michigan Law Review
The American decisions in Conflicts of Laws relating to the rights acquired by one spouse in the property of the other by virtue of the fact of marriage stand as a monument to Joseph Story . Almost without exception the cases discussed hereafter have been decided on the basis of his thorough analysis of the law of the Pandects and the eighteenth century civilians. Even where his principles have not been approved, the courts have departed from them only after real and serious consideration. This fact, kept in mind, greatly simplifies the study of the cases themselves.
Mortgages - Foreclosure - Right To Receiver Of Rents And Profits
Mortgages - Foreclosure - Right To Receiver Of Rents And Profits
Michigan Law Review
The plaintiff held a large mortgage on apartment property. Upon default in the payment of principal, interest, and taxes a bill of foreclosure was filed against the mortgagor and her grantees who had taken subject to the mortgage. A clause in the mortgage authorized the appointment of a receiver to collect the rents and profits upon default. After hearing, the mortgagee was appointed receiver on the theory that non-payment of taxes constituted waste. Held, that the appointment was unauthorized. Union Guardian Trust Co. v. Rau, 255 Mich. 324, 238 N. W. 166 (1931).
Easements--Distinction Between Easement And Lease--Easements Less Than Fee, Kingsley R. Smith
Easements--Distinction Between Easement And Lease--Easements Less Than Fee, Kingsley R. Smith
West Virginia Law Review
No abstract provided.
Brokers-Commission-When Earned
Waste - Improvement Of Premises By Life Tenant
Waste - Improvement Of Premises By Life Tenant
Michigan Law Review
The possible difficulties of a life tenant and some of the rigid and anachronistic doctrines of the law of waste are suggested by the recent case of Brokaw v. Fairchild, 135 Mis. 70, 237 N. Y. S. 6 (1929); aff'd 231 App. Div. 704,245 N. Y. S. 402 (1930), Finch, J., dissenting; aff'd, 177 N. E. 186 (1931), without opinion.
Injunctions--Equitable Servitudes--Boarding House As "Residence Purpose", Frederick H. Barnett
Injunctions--Equitable Servitudes--Boarding House As "Residence Purpose", Frederick H. Barnett
West Virginia Law Review
No abstract provided.
Mechanic's Liens-Waiver-Revival After Waiver
Mechanic's Liens-Waiver-Revival After Waiver
Indiana Law Journal
No abstract provided.
Bailments - Parking Lots
Michigan Law Review
The defendant operated a parking lot in the business section of the city. There were two entrances and exits, the balance of the lot being enclosed by barriers. B parked his car on the lot, paying twenty-five cents and receiving a ticket which stated: "This ticket must be surrendered when car is taken from lot." Attendants were on duty at all times. It was the custom to leave all cars unlocked and at night to move them near a shack which was occupied by the attendants. The car was stolen, and in a suit against the defendant corporation it was …
Does A Lien Exist On A Motor Vehicle For Oil And Gas Furnished For Its Transportation?, Richard C. Stoll
Does A Lien Exist On A Motor Vehicle For Oil And Gas Furnished For Its Transportation?, Richard C. Stoll
Kentucky Law Journal
No abstract provided.
Alteration Or Replacement Of Buildings By The Long-Term Lessee, Marvin L. Niehuss
Alteration Or Replacement Of Buildings By The Long-Term Lessee, Marvin L. Niehuss
Michigan Law Review
The first Reform Bill of 1832 was at once a symptom and a further cause of momentous changes in English institutions, political and legal, to say nothing of social and ecclesiastical. Many of these were brought about as the result of patient and competent investigations of royal commissions which, though not unknown before the third decade of the nineteenth century, were active to an extent hitherto unheard of during that notable epoch of reform. While a few men of law were among the forward spirits, the bulk of the advance guard were laymen. As a rule judges, barristers and attorneys …
Landlord And Tenant -Adverse Possession And Prescription-Based On Holding And User By Tenant
Landlord And Tenant -Adverse Possession And Prescription-Based On Holding And User By Tenant
Michigan Law Review
A tenant who enters under a valid lease can, if he denies his landlord's title, and holds openly, notoriously, and adversely to him for the statutory period, acquire title by adverse possession. But suppose the tenant enters under a void lease and holds for the statutory period, claiming merely under the lease. It seems that there are three possible views as to the legal effect of his holding.
Fixtures - Rights Of Conditional Vendors -Test Of Material Injury To Freehold
Fixtures - Rights Of Conditional Vendors -Test Of Material Injury To Freehold
Michigan Law Review
Plaintiff sued to foreclose a mortgage on a hotel. Defendants were vendors of various pieces of hotel equipment, who apparently had filed title-retaining contracts subsequent to the recording of the realty mortgage. The court found that some of the equipment was not attached to the realty at all, and that the rest could be removed without material in jury to the "freehold." Held, that the title of the conditional vendors prevailed, under N. J. Comp. Stat. supp., secs. 182-93. Bank of America National Ass'n. v. LaReine Hotel Corp. (N. J. 1931) 156 Atl. 28.
Landlord And Tenant- Injuries To Third Persons - Liability Of Landlord
Landlord And Tenant- Injuries To Third Persons - Liability Of Landlord
Michigan Law Review
Plaintiff alleged that she slipped and fell upon vegetable leaves and other refuse on the sidewalk appurtenant to a fruit store owned by Nickolopulos and leased by him to Galante, thereby sustaining injuries. Held, in a suit brought against both landlord and tenant, that plaintiff stated a cause of action against the landlord, and the motion to dismiss the complaint was properly denied. Brovacko v. Nickolopulos et al. (N. J. 1931) 155 Atl. 765.
Book Review. Bigelow, H. A., Cases On The Law Of Personal Property, Ralph F. Fuchs
Book Review. Bigelow, H. A., Cases On The Law Of Personal Property, Ralph F. Fuchs
Articles by Maurer Faculty
No abstract provided.
Walsh W., Cases On The Law Of Property, 3rd Ed., Bernard C. Gavit
Walsh W., Cases On The Law Of Property, 3rd Ed., Bernard C. Gavit
Articles by Maurer Faculty
No abstract provided.
Equity - Power To Rescind Conveyance For Fraud - Survival
Equity - Power To Rescind Conveyance For Fraud - Survival
Michigan Law Review
When a party has been induced by fraud to make a conveyance of real estate, he has a choice of remedies against the defrauding grantee. He may seek restitution of the land or its proceeds in equity or at law on a theory of rescission, or he may affirm the transaction and bring an action for the recovery of damages for the deceit. The actions being logically inconsistent, the granter is not allowed to proceed in both, and must elect whether he will have his property returned to him in specie on his restitution of the price received from the …
Mistake Of Law In Connection With Titles To Land
Mistake Of Law In Connection With Titles To Land
Michigan Law Review
The confusion resulting from hasty and inaccurate generalization is nowhere better illustrated than in the field of mistake of law as to land titles. The doctrine that no relief can be given for mistake of law is constantly re-asserted by respectable authority, particularly in the case of money paid. But the peculiar hardship in the cases of complete failure of title to land has led to a special treatment of these cases, for which the explanations in judicial opinions are unusually obscure.
Division Fence--Location By Parol Agreement Or Acquiesence, Rawlings Ragland
Division Fence--Location By Parol Agreement Or Acquiesence, Rawlings Ragland
Kentucky Law Journal
No abstract provided.