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Constitutional Law - Validity Of Statute Abolishing Breach Of Promise Action, Emma Rae Mann
Constitutional Law - Validity Of Statute Abolishing Breach Of Promise Action, Emma Rae Mann
Michigan Law Review
Plaintiff sued for damages for breach of promise to marry and seduction, after the enactment of a New York statute which abolished such causes of action. The court held for the defendant, basing its recognition of the validity of the statute on the ground that the legislature has plenary power to deal with the subject of marriage. Fearon v. Treanor, 272 N. Y. 268, 5 N. E. (2d) 815 (1936).
An Evaluation Of Washington Marriage Laws, Richard T. Young
An Evaluation Of Washington Marriage Laws, Richard T. Young
Washington Law Review
Today the attitude of the public, as well as that of most lawmaking bodies, is still one of laissez faire towards this question of marriage laws. It is only when we realize that the problem is inherently involved with that of divorce, juvenile delinquency, pauperism and public health that the need for more scientific marriage legislation is made apparent. The appalling rate at which divorce and crime have increased in the United States in the last few years discloses serious deficiencies in those laws under which the family originates.
Gratuitous Promises-A New Writ?, Warren L. Shattuck
Gratuitous Promises-A New Writ?, Warren L. Shattuck
Michigan Law Review
Under the early common law, the fact situations which presented actionable wrongs were limited in number and stereotyped into various writs which issued from the Lord Chancellor. Only as new writs were devised by him was it possible for new fact situations to achieve the dignity of justiciability and so raise legal rights and duties. But with the liberalization of pleading the recognition of new legal rights and duties became a judicial function. In consequence, the constant struggle of new fact patterns for a place in the law is now principally waged before the courts. In this struggle some fail, …