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Latin-American Land Reform: The Uses Of Confiscation, Kenneth L. Karst
Latin-American Land Reform: The Uses Of Confiscation, Kenneth L. Karst
Michigan Law Review
This article examines the legislative techniques for taking land, showing their confiscatory operation. For many lawyers, the analysis would then be easily completed: confiscation is wrongful and must be condemned. Rejecting the implicit absolutism of that conclusion, this article inquires into the justifications that can be pleaded on behalf of selective confiscation as an aid in solving some of Latin America's economic and social ills.
Mellinkoff: The Language Of The Law, Ronald L. Goldfarb
Mellinkoff: The Language Of The Law, Ronald L. Goldfarb
Michigan Law Review
A Review of The Language of the Law. By David Mellinkoff
A Reappraisal Of The Role Of Disclosure, Robert L. Knauss
A Reappraisal Of The Role Of Disclosure, Robert L. Knauss
Michigan Law Review
The objective of this paper is to assess the current role of disclosure in its various aspects in security regulation. Following a brief description of the current uses of disclosure in securities regulation, there are separate sections describing and evaluating (1) the obligation of disclosure imposed on issuers at the initial sale of securities, (2) the obligation of disclosure resting on issuers if they have securities which are traded, and (3) obligations of disclosure imposed on parties in the securities business other than issuers. This last section includes obligations of insiders, broker-dealers, and investment advisers, as well as duties of …
British Statutes In American Law, 1776-1836, Elizabeth Gaspar Brown
British Statutes In American Law, 1776-1836, Elizabeth Gaspar Brown
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When a dependency severs its formal connection with the mother country - irrespective of the century in which such severance occurs - the act of independence can neither eradicate the past nor solve all problems of the future. In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, the United States of America discovered that independence from Great Britain in itself did not abolish the need for rules and regulations by which men could anticipate with some degree of certainty the consequences of particular actions. Wholesale adoption of such English statutes as were suited to their condition offered a solution to the …
Freedom Of Navigation For International Rivers: What Does It Mean?, Ralph W. Johnson
Freedom Of Navigation For International Rivers: What Does It Mean?, Ralph W. Johnson
Michigan Law Review
The purpose of this paper will be to analyze the origin of the concept, trace its (their) development, point out the most commonly used meanings, and then demonstrate the substantial irrelevance of the concept, by any of these definitions, to present-day river navigation and trade problems.