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University of Michigan Law School

1940

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Public Policies Underlying The Law Of Mental Incompetency, Milton D. Green Jun 1940

Public Policies Underlying The Law Of Mental Incompetency, Milton D. Green

Michigan Law Review

Mental incompetency, or legal insanity, has usually been studied in the patchquilt fashion. It appears as a sub-heading of incidental interest in such widely diversified subjects as crimes, contracts, domestic relations, torts and wills. It can, however, be conceived of as a single strand in the seamless web. So viewed, it may appear to wind in and out of the various artificial subdivisions of the law, cutting across each at one particular place or another. And so conceived, it can be studied according to the second and less orthodox method of analysis. Few are the isolated areas in the law …


Trusts - Spendthrift Trusts - Beneficial Interest Held Not Attachable To Make Good Liability As Trustee, W. Wallace Kent Mar 1940

Trusts - Spendthrift Trusts - Beneficial Interest Held Not Attachable To Make Good Liability As Trustee, W. Wallace Kent

Michigan Law Review

Janet Jones was an inactive trustee and one of the beneficiaries of a spendthrift trust. Because of lack of good judgment on the part of her co-trustee, and without any moral fault on her part, Janet was charged with liability for a large sum. Her surety, who paid the succeeding trustee, took an assignment of the rights of the trust estate against Janet Jones and demanded that the trustee pay to it all the income, past, present and future, which the trust instrument gave to such beneficiary. The trustee brought this action for instructions. Held, as the trust estate …