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Recent Cases, Law Review Staff

Vanderbilt Law Review

Recent Cases--

Attorney and Client--Contingent Fee Contracts--Divorce Action

Corporations--Corporate Power--Contributions to Philanthropic Institutions

Corporations--Criminal Anti-Trust Action--Indemnification of Directors for Litigation Expenses

Evidence--Presumption of Law and Inference of Fact--Retrospective Presumption of Continuity

Federal Procedure--Class Actions--Discretion of Trial Court

Income Taxation--Deductions--"Ordinary and Necessary"--Expenses

Income Taxation--False Statements--Criminal Penalties

Labor Law--Arbitration Agreements--Specific Enforcement in Federal Courts

Military Law--Discharged Personnel--Power to Arrest for Serious Crimes

Military Law--Privilege Against Self Incrimination--Admissibility of Handwriting Specimen Obtained Involuntarily

Torts--Automobile Guest--Contributory Negligence as a Matter of Law

Workmen's Compensation--Employees' Altercations--Aggresso

Recent Cases, Law Review Staff

Vanderbilt Law Review

Constitutional Law--Constitutionality of Group Libel Statute

Federal Employers Liability Act--Liability for Employment of Man with Violent Tendencies

Federal Jurisdiction--Diversity Jurisdiction and the Multi-State Corporation

Federal Jurisdiction--Erie Railroad Doctrine Extended to State-Created Rights Arising under Special Federal Question Jurisdiction

Labor Law--Picketing--Injunction against Breach of Bargaining Agreement

Landlord and Tenant--Exculpatory Agreement--Effect on Right of Subrogation of Landlord's Insurer

Military Law--Failure to Instruct as Prejudicial Error

Military Law--Infiltration of Command Influence as General Prejudice

Trusts--Distribution of Stock Dividends between Life Tenant and Remainderman

Book Reviews, Reginald C. Harmon (Reviewer), A. B. Butts (Reviewer), Rollin M. Perkins (Reviewer), Stanley D. Rose (Reviewer), Charles H. Livengood, Jr. (Reviewer), Keith W. Blinn (Reviewer)

Vanderbilt Law Review

Military Justice under the Uniform Code

By James Snedeker

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1953. $15.00.

reviewer: Reginald C. Harmon

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Conscription of Conscience

By Mulford Q. Sibley and Philip E. Jacob

Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1952. Pp. x, 580. $6.50.

reviewer: A. B. Butts

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Theft, Law and Society

By Jerome Hall

Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Co., Inc. Second Edition, 1952. Pp. xxiv, 398. $10.00.

reviewer: Rollin M. Perkins

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Freedom of the Press in England 1476-1776

By Fredrick S. Siebert

Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1952. Pp. xiv, 411. $7.50.

reviewer: Stanley D. Rose

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Wage-Hour Law: Coverage

By Heiman …