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Is A Provision For The Initiative And Referendum Inconsistent With The Constitution Of The United States?, W. A. Coutts Feb 1908

Is A Provision For The Initiative And Referendum Inconsistent With The Constitution Of The United States?, W. A. Coutts

Michigan Law Review

We are told today that the Constitution of the United States forbids the adoption of the Initiative and the Referendum, as these involve such purely democratic principles as to be inconsistent with the republican form of government guaranteed by the fourth section of the fourth article of the Federal Constitution. The special interests that are opposed to the Initiative tell us that we must find some other cure for the evils at which it aims; that the Initiative is a purely democratic principle and, as such, it is forbidden by the fourth section of the fourth article of the Federal …


Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review Feb 1908

Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

Attachment--Property Subject to--Goods Conditionally Sold; Bankruptcy--Receiver and Manager--Insufficient Estate--Priorities; Bankruptcy--Solicitor and Client--Account Stated Bankruptcy of Client--Trustee's Right to Go Behind Stated Account, and Require Details; Banks and Banking--Receivers in Proceedings for Dissolution--Sufficiency of Bill; Bills and Notes--Foreign Bill of Exchange--Failure to Protest; Constitutional law--Equal Protection of the Law--Regulation of Common Carrier; Contracts--Mutuality of Obligation; Corporations--Agreement to Take Shares of Stock; Damages--Mental Suffering--Wanton Wrong; Deeds--Date--Presumption as to Time of Delivery; Deeds--Description--Statement of Quantity Controlling; Elections--Certificates of Nomination--Time of Filing--Accident and Mistake Causing Delay; Evidence--Admissibility of Conversation by Telephone; Evidence--Proof of Value--An Exception to the Hearsay Rule; Husband and Wife--Estate by Entirety--application …


Are Too Many Executive Officers Elective?, Bradley M. Thompson Jan 1908

Are Too Many Executive Officers Elective?, Bradley M. Thompson

Articles

We propose very briefly to call attention, to so much of the present constitution of Michigan as has to do with the executive department, and to consider the methods which the people have adopted for selecting those public servants whose official duty it is to enforce the law, to maintain public order and protect private rights.


The Constitution Of Oklahoma, John A. Fairlie Dec 1907

The Constitution Of Oklahoma, John A. Fairlie

Michigan Law Review

The constitution of the latest state to be admitted to the Federal Union contains many interesting features, some significant of recent tendencies in state government, and others distinctly novel, which suggest queries as to the probable trend of future development. Public attention has already been attracted to some of the most striking provisions; and a more careful analysis of the constitution as a whole should be of value to those concerned in the problems of American government. At the outset, one familiar with the constitution of the older states will be struck by the length of the Oklahoma document. It …


Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review Dec 1907

Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

Agency--Evidence of Performance--right to Compensation--Acting for both Parties; Assignment for Benefit of Creditors--Marshaling Assets; Bonds--Bona Fide Purchasers--Mandamus--Redemption of Bonds; Carriers--may, as Lessors, Contract for Total Exemption from Liability for Negligence; Constitutional law--Jurisdiction of Federal Courts to Review Contempt Proceedings in State Court; Contracts--Accord and Satisfaction--Consideration; Criminal Law--Venue--Statutes--Validity; Damages--Conversion; Deeds--Construction--Intent of Parties; Deeds--Seal Essential; Dower--rights of Widow Pending Assignment--Possession of Lands; Eminent domain--Interurban Railways; Evidence--Presumption as to Foreign Law; Fee Simple Estate--Restraints on Alienation; Fraudulent Conveyances--Sales in Bulk--Validity as Between the Parties--Lien for Price; Husband and Wife--Separation Agreements--Validity; Insurance--Fire--Concurrent Insurance; Insurance--Mutual Benefit--Unreasonable Change of By-Laws; Judgment--Res Judicata; Master and Servant--Liability of …


Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review Nov 1907

Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

Adoption--Who is a "Child"; Agency--Ratification--Act Must Have Been Done as Agent--Trusts--Pretended Agent as Constructive Trustee; Bankruptcy--Assets--Commissions of Agent on Policies Written Prior to Adjudication; Bankruptcy--Property Held Under conditional Sale--Right to Reclaim; Banks and Banking--Usury Laws--Notes Purchased in Good Raith--Power of Congress to Regulate National Banks; Bills and Notes--Execution in Blank--Statutory Provisions; Constitutional Law--Inheritance Tax--due Process of Law; Contracts--Abandonment--Recovery;


A Written Constitution In Some Of Its Historical Aspects, Andrew C. Mclaughlin Jun 1907

A Written Constitution In Some Of Its Historical Aspects, Andrew C. Mclaughlin

Michigan Law Review

That an institution of government, like an institution or practice of society, is a growth and not a creation is now an accepted proposition. No one seeks to argue for it; no one endeavors to deny it. The introduction of this idea into our political thinking strongly influenced our methods and our ideas. In no field of study has the evolutionary idea shown itself more strongly than among workers in history and political science. And yet occasionally one is surprised by seeing how recently this idea has manifested itself in the examination of some historical problems. Until a short time …


Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review Jun 1907

Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

Bankruptcy--Insurance Policies--Cash Surrender Value; Bankruptcy--Partnership and Individual Assets; Bills and Notes--Payment by the United States of Pension Checks on Forged Indorsements--Recovery of Payment; Common Carriers--Defective Transfers; Constitutional Law--Commerce in Intoxicating Liquors--License Tax of Traveling Salesman; Constitutional Law--Equal Protection of the Law--State Statute; Constitutional law--Police Power--Flag Legislation; Contracts--Assignments of--Right of Assignee Against Debtor; Corporations--Acquisition of Exemption in Merger; Deeds--Construction and Operation--Reservation and Exception; Deeds--Suit to Set Aside--Duress of Wife--Parties in Pari Delicto; Evidence--Confessions to One Not in Authority--Admissibility; Foreign Corporations--Effect on contracts of Failure to Register--Contracts; Fraud--Independent Investigation; Frauds, Statute of--agreement to Deal in Lands; Husband and Wife--Right to Disposition of …


Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review May 1907

Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

Bankruptcy--Assigned Claim for Wages--Preference; Bankruptcy--time of Filing Claims; Banks and Banking--Liability of Stockholders--Unregistered Transfer; Banks and Banking--What is a Bank?; Bills and Notes--Indorsement Before Issue--Liabilities; Bills and Notes--usury--Evidence--Burden of Proof; Carriers--Freight Elevators as Carriers of Passengers; Carriers of Passengers--Servants--Communication of Disease; Constitutional Law--Delegation of Power; Constitutional Law--Police Power to Restrict Hours of Labor; Contracts--Mutuality; Courts--Criminal Law--Instructions to Jury; Covenants--Warranty--claims "By, Through or Under" Grantor--Eminent Domain; Criminal Law--Exclusion of Public From Trial; Criminal Law--Trial--conduct of Jury--comments on Defendant's Failure to Testify; Divorce--Custody of Minor Children--Duty to Support Father's Misconduct; Ejectment--When Maintainable--Easements; Estate by Entirety--Effect of Murder of Wife by Husband; Evidence--Wife …


The Commerce Clause Of The Federal Constitution And Two Recent Cases Dealing With It, S. S. Gregory Apr 1907

The Commerce Clause Of The Federal Constitution And Two Recent Cases Dealing With It, S. S. Gregory

Michigan Law Review

In the historic case of M'Culloch v. Maryland, CHIEF Justice Marshall said, referring to the Federal Government: "This government is acknowledged by all to be one of enumerated powers. The principle that it can exercise only the powers granted to it, would seem too apparent to have required to be enforced by all those arguments which its enlightened friends, while it was depending before the people, found it necessary to urge. That principle is now universally admitted, but the question respecting the extent of the powers actually granted is perpetually arising and will probably continue to arise as long as …


Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review Apr 1907

Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

Aliens - Right to Take Land by Descent - Loss of State's Right to Escheat; Bailment - Liability of Incidental Bailee; Bankruptcy - Preferences - Franchise Tax; Bankruptcy - Transfers Required to be Recorded - Preferences; Bills and Notes - Bona Fide Purchaser - Notice of Want of Power in Transferrer; Bills and Notes - Unrestricted Negotiability of Bills of Lading; Constitutional Law - Commerce Clause - Statute Relating to Interstate Carriers as Employers; Constitutional Law - Indeterminate Sentence Law; Courts - Rules of Property - Stare Decisis; Criminal Law - Exclusion of Public from Trials; Criminal Law - Impeachment …


Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review Mar 1907

Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

Agency--Agent's Liability When Name of Principal is Undisclosed; Attorney and Client--Admission to Practice--Moral Character; Bailment--Hiring--Conversion; Bankruptcy--Attempted Assignment by Trustee to a Creditor of Fraudulently Acquired Property; Bankruptcy--Fraudulent Conveyance--Vendor's Lien; Banks and Banking--Pass Books--Duty of Depositor; Bills and Notes--Antecedent Debt Constitutes Value; Common Carriers--Special Service; Conflict of Laws--Defense to an Action of Tort; Constitutional law--due Process of Law--Equal Protection of the Laws--Service on State Auditor as Attorney for Corporation; Contracts--Right of Privacy--Breach of Trust; Corporations--Ultra Vires; criminal Procedure--Indictment Must Negative Exception in Statute; Damages--Measure--Medical Attendance--Loss of Business; Damages--Mental Suffering--Failure to Deliver Telegram Promptly; Deeds--Redelivery to the Grantor--Effect as to Title; Easements …


Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review Feb 1907

Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

Admiralty--Liability of Public Corporation for Tort; Bankruptcy--bills and Notes--discharge of Indorser; Bankruptcy--Title to Stock Held by Stockholders; Bills and Notes--Renewal of Void Note--Moral Obligation Not a Good Consideration; Bills and Notes--Renewal of Void Note--Moral Obligation Sufficient Consideration; Carriers--contributory Negligence--Protruding Arms of Passengers; Carriers--Contributory Negligence--Protruding Arms of Passengers; Constitutional law--foreign Corporations--Service of Summons on the Auditor of State--Due Process of Law; Contract to Devise--Parol Evidence to vary Consideration Expressed in a Deed; Corporations--application for Shares--Contracts; Easements--Way of Necessity--Relation of Parties; Equity--Jurisdiction--Bills of Peace; Executors and Administrators--Allowance to Surviving Children--Stepchildren; Garnishment--Proceeds form Sale of Homestead Exempt; Garnishment--Waiver of Defect in Writ; Homestead--conveyance--Joinder …


Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review Jan 1907

Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

Attorney and Client--Unnecessary Services--Compensation; Bankruptcy--Title to Bankrupt's Property; Banks and Banking--Checks--Appropriation of Deposit--Garnishment; Chattel Mortgages--Retention of Possession and Power of Sale by Mortgagor--Fraud; Civil Rights--Power of Congress to Protect Against Individual Interference; Common Carriers--Limitation of Liability--Agreed Valuation; Constitutional Law--Delegation of Legislative Power--Regulations of Executive Departments; Constitutional Law--Regulation of Child Labor; Contracts--Mutuality--Consideration; Contracts--Restraint of Trade; Corporations--Misuse of Funds--Right of Stockholder to Sue; Corporations--Preferred Stock--Priorities--Cumulative Dividends; Covenants--Knowledge by the Grantee of Incumbrance; Criminal Law--conviction of Lesser Offense as Acquittal of Graver Offense--Former Jeopardy--Remanding Cause for Sentence; Damages--Mental Anguish--Undelivered Telegram; Deeds--Exceptions--Reservations--Abandonment of Right of Way--Reversion--Effect; Eminent Domain--Cemeteries; Evidence--Privileged Communications--Attorney and Client; Evidence--Res Gestae--Spontaneous …


The American Bar Association's Meeting At Portland, Henry M. Bates Jan 1907

The American Bar Association's Meeting At Portland, Henry M. Bates

Articles

The meeting of the American Bar Association for 1907 was a notable one, both in respect of the attendance and in the importance of many of the matters discussed. Not only was the attendance unusually large, but the presence of many distinguished men from abroad who were delegates to the meetings of the International Law Association, held during the same week, added distinction to the gatherings. The meetings reflected significantly the discussion throughout the country upon the great legal and political questions which the changing conditions in the commercial and industrial world have brought so prominently before the nation during …


Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review Jun 1906

Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

Attorney--disbarment for Malpractice; Bills and Notes--Certification of Check; Bills and Notes--consideration--Illegal Use of Proceeds--Sunday Contracts; Bills and Notes--Notice of Protest; Carrier--Invalid Ticket--Tender of Cash Fare--Ejection of Passenger; Common Carriers--Express Companies--Municipal Tax on Delivery of Intoxicating Liquors--Mandamus to Compel Transportation; Common Carriers--Limitation of Liability by Special Contract--Hand Baggage; Constitutional Law--Obligation of Contract; Constitutional law--Privileges of Citizens--Interstate Commerce--Peddler's License; Corporations--conflict of Laws--Liability of Stockholders in Company Formed to Trade in a Foreign Country--Implied Authority to Pledge Personal Credit of Shareholders Under Foreign Law; Covenants--Privity of Estate; Criminal Law--False Pretenses--Post payable Check; Criminal Law--Presumption from Identity of Names; Deeds--Capacity of Grantor as Compared …


Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Reivew Apr 1906

Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Reivew

Michigan Law Review

Agency--Ratification--Action by Principal Based on His Own Ratification; Bailments--Negligence of Bailor and Bailee; Bills and Notes--Designation of Amount--Marginal Figures; Bills and Notes--Sufficiency of Plaintiff's Title; Bills and Notes--Rights of an Accommodation Maker; Carriers--Liability of Steamship Company for Loss of Passenger's Baggage; Common Carrers--Limitation of Liability by Special Contract--Exemption Includes Limitation; Constitutional Law--Game Laws; Constitutional Law--Habeas Corpus--Former Jeopardy; Contract for Sale of Realty--Rescission--Bringing Action not Sufficient Notice of Recission; Corporations--Foreign Corporations--Doing Business in the State--State Control--Taxation of Intra-State Business; Corporations--Illegal Payment of Dividends--Statuatory Liability of Directors--Discretion of Directors; Corporations--Ultra Vires Contract--Powers of Railroad Company--Estoppel; Criminal Law--Homicide--Threats by Deceased; Damages--Nursing by Husband …


Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review Mar 1906

Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

Arbitration and Award--By-Laws of Board of Trade--Ousting Courts' Jurisdiction; Bills and Notes--Accommodation Indorsement--Conflict of Laws; Bills and Notes--Material Alteration; Common Carriers--Duty to Notify Passenger of Arrival at His Destination--Must Awaken Sleeping Passenger if His Destination is Known; Constitutional Law--Anti-Trust Laws--Equal Protection of the Laws; Constitutional Law--Insurance--State Statutes Prohibiting Combinations Among Insurance Companies--Do Not Violate Fourteenth Amendment; Constitutional Law--Prosecution by Information due Process of Law; Contracts--Agreement to Employ Only Members of a Certain Union; Contracts--Public Policy--Location of Depots; Corporations--Reduction of Stock--Equitable Relief--Powers of Officers; Corporations--Suit by Stockholders--Refusal of Directors to Sue; Corporations--Suit in Stockholders' Names--Device to Confer Jurisdiction on Federal Courts; …


Note And Comment, Edson R. Sunderland, Henry M. Bates, Harry B. Hutchins, John R. Rood, James H. Brewster, James H. Brewster Feb 1906

Note And Comment, Edson R. Sunderland, Henry M. Bates, Harry B. Hutchins, John R. Rood, James H. Brewster, James H. Brewster

Michigan Law Review

Constitutional Privileges in the Philippine Islands; A Laudatory Publication as a Cause of Action; The Cy-Pres Doctrine; Duty of Vendee to See to Investment of Funds; the Power to Declare a forfeiture and Sell Property Used in Violation of a Statute; Dying Declarations; "Juvenile Courts" and Jury Trials for Neglected, Delinquent, Children;


Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Reivew Feb 1906

Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Reivew

Michigan Law Review

Acknowledgment--Notary Agent of Grantee--Extra Compensation for Securing Acknowledgment; Attachment of Real Property--Conflict of Jurisdiction--Federal and State Courts; Attorney and Client--Contract Between--Fraudulent Conveyance; Bankruptcy--Preferences--Securing Attorney's Fee; Banks--Liability of Private Banker; Common Carriers--Duty to Receive Helpless Persons as Passengers--Degree of Care Required When Accepted; Common Carriers--duty Toward Hackmen at Depots--May Discriminate; Constitutional Law--Impairing Obligation of Contract--Contracts with Waterworks Companies; Constitutional Law--License for Issuing Trading Stamps; Constitutional Law--Trading Stamp Laws; Corporations--amendment of Charter--Service on--Liberty to Contract; Corporations--Constitutional Law--Pools and Trusts--Foreign Insurance Companies; Criminal law--Written instructions to Jury; damages--Fright Unconnected with Physical Injury; Deed--description--Conveyance to Trustee--Necessity of Word "heirs"--Rule in Shelley's Case--Adverse Possession; Evidence--Corporations--Books …


Constitutional Privileges In The Philippine Islands, Edson R. Sunderland Jan 1906

Constitutional Privileges In The Philippine Islands, Edson R. Sunderland

Articles

About a year ago an appeal was decided in the Supreme Court of the United States which came up from the Supreme Court of the Philippine Islands, involving the question of the right of the government to appeal in a criminal case and to secure a conviction after an acquittal below. That case was Kepner v. United States, 195 U. S. 100. The court held, by a vote of five to four, that proceedings in error instituted by the government after an acquittal in the trial court, had the effect of placing the accused twice in jeopardy for the same …


Constitutionality Of The Indiana Anti-Cigarette Law, Thomas A. Sims Dec 1905

Constitutionality Of The Indiana Anti-Cigarette Law, Thomas A. Sims

Michigan Law Review

The recent act of the Indiana General Assembly, known as the "Indiana Anti-Cigarette Law," is the third act of its kind to be passed by a state legislature. In 1896 the State of Iowa enacted a similar law, and the year following, Tennessee did the same. In the years intervening between these acts and the present act similar bills have been introduced in various legislatures over the country but none of them has passed. The passage of the act by the Indiana Assembly has, however, seemingly reawakened the sentiment in favor of such legislation, and in several of the states …


Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Reviw Dec 1905

Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Reviw

Michigan Law Review

Bills and Notes--Assignment of a Note by an Insane Person; Bills and Notes--Necessity for Identification of Payee of Check--Payment of Forged Check; Carriers--Limitation of Amount of Liability by Special Contract--Negligence--Limitation Valid; Carriers--Owners of Passenger Elevators--Not Liable as Common Carriers; Carriers--Owners of Passenger Elevators--Liable as Common Carriers; Constitutional Law--Indeterminate Sentence--Invation of Executive or Judicial Functions; Constitutional law--Obligation of Contract--Stockholders' Liability to Creditors; Constitutional Law--Sales--Interstate Commerce; Constitutional Law--Trial by Jury in Territories; Contract--Action for Breach--Question for Jury; Contract--Effect of Assignment of a Dramshop License as part Consideration; Corporations-- Insolvency--Sale--Creditors' Bill--Preferences to Officers; Corporations--Insolvency--Stockholders' Liabilities--Action at Law; Divorce--Alimony--Foreign Decree--Enforcement; Divorce--Epileptic's Marriage in Violation …


Note And Comment, Harry B. Hutchins, Henry M. Bates, John R. Rood, John R. Rood, Charles R. Dibble, John R. Rood, Horace Lafayette Wilgus Nov 1905

Note And Comment, Harry B. Hutchins, Henry M. Bates, John R. Rood, John R. Rood, Charles R. Dibble, John R. Rood, Horace Lafayette Wilgus

Michigan Law Review

The Law School; Unauthorized Operation by Physician; The Kansas Oil Refinery Bill; Garnishment of Public Corporations; The rule in Wild's Case Today; Effect of a complicated Form of Ballot on the Elector's Freedom of Choice; Situs of Debts for Garnishment; Malicious Interference With the Contract of Employment


Church And State - The Mandate Of The Establishment Clause: Wall Of Separation Or Benign Neutrality., William J. Cornelius Jun 1905

Church And State - The Mandate Of The Establishment Clause: Wall Of Separation Or Benign Neutrality., William J. Cornelius

St. Mary's Law Journal

Instead of continuing down the path of confusing, contradictory, and inconsistent nonestablishment clause decisions, the Court should opt for a new approach—benign neutrality. The Court currently follows one of three general approaches when deciding nonestablishment clause issues—Wall of Separation theory, Strict Neutrality theory, or the Accommodation theory. None of these three approaches has led to any clear standards or principles. The Wall of Separation theory has been argued to be the most historically accurate representation of the Framer’s intent, but that is inaccurate. Instead, the Framers pursued religious freedom instead of complete separation in order to partially avoid usurpation by …


Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review Jun 1905

Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

Banks, National--Stockholders' Liability--Statute of Limitations; Bills and Notes--Indorsements Procured by Fraud; Carriers--Drover's pass--Release from Liability; Carriers--Unreasonable Freight Rates--Interstate Commerce Act--Common Law Remedy; Chattel Mortgages--Failure to Record--Mortgagor in Possession--Estoppel; Connecting Carriers--Loss of Goods--Liability; Constitutional Law--Civil Rights--Discrimination in Licenses; Constitutional Law--Eight Hour Law--Police Power--Health Regulations; Corporations--Duplicate Stock Certificate--Indemnity; Corporations--Subscription to Stock--Liability of Subscriber; Equity--Specific Performance--Contract to Make Will; Evidence--Physicians of conflicting Schools--Competency as Witnesses; Evidence--Radiograph--X-ray; Garnishment--One Railroad as Debtor of Another; Husband and Wife--Application of Doctrine of Tenancy by Entireties to Personality; Husband and Wife--Indebtedness to Wife--Notes--Presumption of Payment; Judgment--Default--appearance; Libel--Publishing of a White Man that He is "Colored"; Master and Servant--Concurrent …


Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review May 1905

Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

Bailments--Care Required of Agistor--Special Contracts; Bankruptcy--Trading Corporations--Hotels; Common Carriers--discrimination--Exclusive Depot Privileges; Conditional Sales--Street Railway Equipment--Rights of Vendor; Constitutional Law--Class Legislation--Equal Protection of the Amendment of the Federal Constitution and the Massachusetts Declaration of Rights; Constitutional Law--Interference with Civil rights--Power of Congress to Enforce the Fourteenth Amendment; Contempt of Court--Fraudulent Claims; Contract--Assignment; Contract to Indemnify Against negligence--Statutory Prohibition--Public Policy; Corporations--Sale of corporate Property to Directors--Validity; Damages--Remote; Deeds--Duress--Grantor in Possession; Deeds--Restriction Against Building Tenement House--Deeds--Standing Timber--Construction; Equity--Possession of Personal Property; Evidence--Hypothetical Question; Execution--Exemptions--Life Insurance; Fixtures--Mortgage--Distruction of Property; Foreign Corporations--Service of Summons of Officer of; Highway--Rights of Abutting Owner; Husband and Wife--Contracts--Effects of …


Note And Comment, Michigan Law Review Apr 1905

Note And Comment, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

Statute Requiring Examination and License as Prerequisites to Ownership or Management of a Dental Office Unconstitutional; Railroad Control of the Telegraph Business; The Need of Uniform Laws Governing "Conditional Sales"; Jurisdiction of Equity over Void Instruments; Quitclaim Deed as Affecting the Question of Good Faith; Competency of a child as a Witness; Compensation for Party Walls as Between Subsequent Grantees;


Removal Of Public Officers From Office For Cause, Ii, Alonzo H. Tuttle Mar 1905

Removal Of Public Officers From Office For Cause, Ii, Alonzo H. Tuttle

Michigan Law Review

We have seen by the great weight of authority that removal for cause requires notice, charges and a chance to defend. It remains for us to discuss the most difficult question of all. What is the nature of this power? Is it judicial or executive in character? The importance of this question is two-fold. 1. If executive in nature, the courts have no power to review it by the writ of certiorari. If judicial, they have. 2. If judicial, the question arises, is it constitutional to confer such a power on an executive officer? Upon the question whether the power …


Constitutional Limitations On Primary Election Legislation, Floyd R. Mechem Mar 1905

Constitutional Limitations On Primary Election Legislation, Floyd R. Mechem

Michigan Law Review

In determining what aspect of the general question I should discuss in the brief time available, it seemed to me desirable that I should confine my attention to the constitutional aspect of the matter, leaving the discussion of the practical workings of the various laws actually enacted to those who have had more opportunity to observe them. The constitutional side of the matter has already been very ably discussed by Professor Tuttle in MICHIGAN LAW REVIEW and I do not hope to add materially to what is there said, though certain of the questions may be approached in a somewhat …