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Corporations-Validity Of Default Provisions In Trust Mortgages Nov 1932

Corporations-Validity Of Default Provisions In Trust Mortgages

Michigan Law Review

Ordinarily a secured creditor can take action to protect his claim against his debtor. When, however, the creditor is only one of many whose claims are equal in lien and right, it may be undesirable that any single creditor should be able to take independent action. This fact has led draftsmen to insert in corporate mortgages provisions limiting the rights of minority bondholders to take action in the event of default under the mortgage. The use of such provisions has created an apparent hotbed of judicial dissension.


Bills And Notes - Authority To Fill In Blanks - Effect Of Death Of Maker Apr 1932

Bills And Notes - Authority To Fill In Blanks - Effect Of Death Of Maker

Michigan Law Review

H gave W his note in blank with authority to fill it in at $50,000 when she wished, the note representing W's interest in their joint property. W filled in the blanks after H's death and sued H's estate on the note. Held, the authority to fill in was not revoked by H's death, for it was a power coupled with an interest. In re Ferrara (N. J. 19 3 l) 156 Atl. 265.


Equity - Power To Rescind Conveyance For Fraud - Survival Jan 1932

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 …