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Dawson: A History Of Lay Judges, Spencer L. Kimball
Dawson: A History Of Lay Judges, Spencer L. Kimball
Michigan Law Review
A Review of A History of Lay Judges . By John P. Dawson
The Organization Of The Probate Court In America: I, Lewis M. Simes, Paul E. Basye
The Organization Of The Probate Court In America: I, Lewis M. Simes, Paul E. Basye
Michigan Law Review
This is a study of contemporary American legislation concerning probate courts, with particular reference to their jurisdiction over the probate of wills and the administration of estates of deceased persons.
By the term "probate courts" is meant all judicial tribunals which exercise such jurisdiction. As will subsequently appear, they are otherwise variously designated as surrogates' courts, orphans' courts, prerogative courts, courts of ordinary and county courts. In one state all the functions of probate and administration are exercised by courts of chancery. In other states, chancery has concurrent jurisdiction over many of these functions. Sometimes the register of probate exercises …
Old English Local Courts And The Movement For Their Reform, Arthur Lyon Cross
Old English Local Courts And The Movement For Their Reform, Arthur Lyon Cross
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 …