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Book Reviews, Carl B. Swisher (Reviewer), Elvin E. Overton (Reviewer), Jay Murphy (Reviewer), Charlotte Williams (Reviewer), Alexander Holtzoff (Reviewer)
Book Reviews, Carl B. Swisher (Reviewer), Elvin E. Overton (Reviewer), Jay Murphy (Reviewer), Charlotte Williams (Reviewer), Alexander Holtzoff (Reviewer)
Vanderbilt Law Review
Book Reviews
LIONS UNDER THE THRONE
By Charles P. Curtis, Jr.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1947. Pp. xviii, 368. $3.50
MR. JUSTICE BLACK: THE MAN AND His OPINIONS
By John P. Frank (Introduction by Charles A. Beard)
New York: Knopf Company, 1949.Pp. xix, 357. $4.00
ON UNDERSTANDING THE SUPREME COURT
By Paul A. Freund
Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1949. Pp. vi, 130. $3.00
MELVILLE VESTON FULLER: CHIEF JUSTICE OF THE UNITED STATES, 1888-1919
By Willard L. King
New York: Macmillan Company, 1950. Pp.394. $5.00
CHIEF JUSTICE STONE AND THE SUPREME COURT
By Samuel J. Konefsky (Prefatory Note by Charles A. …
Intrinsic And Extrinsic Fraud And Relief Against Judgments, Harold C. Dedman
Intrinsic And Extrinsic Fraud And Relief Against Judgments, Harold C. Dedman
Vanderbilt Law Review
Closely akin to the doctrine of res adjudicata is that which will not allow a court of equity to grant relief against a fraudulently acquired judgment unless the fraud is shown to have been "extrinsic" or collateral rather than "intrinsic" fraud. According to this rule, to warrant equitable relief against a judgment on the ground of fraud, it must appear that the fraud was practiced in the very act of obtaining the judgment. Relief is granted on the theory that through fraud extrinsic and collateral to the actual proceedings before the court, the unsuccessful party has been prevented from fully …