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Rights Of A Vendee Under An Executory Forfeitable Contract For The Purchase Of Real Estate: A Further Word On The Washington Law, Alfred J. Schweppe

Washington Law Review

Almost two years have passed since the six-three decision in Ashford v. Reese, holding that in this state an executory forfeitable contract for the sale of real estate creates no title, legal or equitable, in the vendee. Since that time a Department of the Court has once reaffirmed the doctrine, and the legislature has initiated, but not consummated, an attempt to change the rule. It is not the purpose of this brief article to reiterate what has heretofore been discussed both in the opinions of the Court and in these pages; but merely, for the sake of completeness, to refer …

Recent Cases, G. De G.

Washington Law Review

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Periodical Notes, Anon

Washington Law Review

The Periodical Note Section is a brief summary of the leading articles of general interest in other law reviews that have appeared since the last number of the Washington Law Review.

Book Notes, O. B. K.

Washington Law Review

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Recent Important Decisions

Michigan Law Review

A collection of recent important court decisions.

Ogden V. Washington National Bank, Hugh Evander Willis

Indiana Law Journal

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Our Bounty Of Constitutional Government, Thomas James Norton

Indiana Law Journal

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Extraordinary Legal Remedies, By Forest G. Ferris And Forest G. Ferris, Jr., C. Severin Buschmann

Indiana Law Journal

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News Of Bench And Bar

Indiana Law Journal

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Imprisonment For Debt, Richard Ford

Michigan Law Review

Imprisonment for debt is usually thought of as a barbarous custom which declined continuously as civilization and Christianity advanced and which was totally done away with long ago. The facts, however, are otherwise. It seems doubtful if history warrants any generalization to the effect that the imprisonment of debtors has been a steadily declining practice. Certain it is, that in a greater or less degree it exists today in many parts of the United States, in England, and in some other countries. Moreover, creditors are making use of it on a comparatively large scale. It is the purpose of this …

Appeal Of Death

Michigan Law Review

A note from Mr. Justice Riddell says: "In my paper, 'Appeal of Death and Its Abolition.' 24 MICH. L. REV. (June, 1926) at p. 793, it is said, 'when the widow was Appellor, the issue was tried by a jury because a woman could not fight.' While this was generally true, the statement indicating universality was made per incuriam of course, the trial was sicut curia consideraverit; and sometimes Battel was awarded in the case of a woman-appellor.

Book Reviews

Michigan Law Review

A collection of book reviews by multiple authors.

81st University Of Notre Dame Commencement, University Of Notre Dame

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81st University of Notre Dame Commencement Program

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The Necessity Of Delivery In Making Gifts, W. Lewis Roberts

West Virginia Law Review

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Principal And Agent--Suit By A Disclosed Principal As A Third Party Beneficiary On A Contract Made Upon The Sole Credit Of The Agent, R. T. D.

West Virginia Law Review

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Justice In Colonial Virginia, Oliver Perry Chitwood

West Virginia Law Review

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Contracts To Make Testamentary Dispositions As Affected By The Statute Of Frauds, Merrell I. Schnebly

Michigan Law Review

There are in the reports a surprising number of cases in which it is alleged that the owner of property has bound himself by contract to devise or bequeath that property to another. These promises have been made upon almost every imaginable consideration, but in the typical case the consideration is personal services rendered to the promiser during his declining years. Since these promises are so common, one concludes that this kind of contract must appeal to many persons as advantageous. There is little doubt that it of ten does enable one to secure attention of a sort he could …

Codification Of International Law At Geneva , George W. Wickersham

Cornell Law Review

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Extent And Delimitation Of Territorial Waters , Henry S. Fraser

Cornell Law Review

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On Law And Liberty, Josiah W. Bailey

North Carolina Law Review

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A Useful Maxim, Frederick G. Mckean Jr.

North Carolina Law Review

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Appeal Of Death And Its Abolition, William Renwick Riddell

Michigan Law Review

The Appeal of Death-or, as it is sometimes called, the Appeal of Murder, because it was generally invoked in cases of murder although cases of manslaughter were also within its scope-was an interesting survival of ancient law which continued its existence in England until a little more than a century ago, and which, when it fell, brought down a mass of crumbling and antiquated rubbish, which served no good purpose and might-sometimes did-do harm.

The Doctrine Of Price V. Neal, Ralph W. Aigler

Michigan Law Review

In 1715 the case of Jenys v. Fawler, et al. came before Lord Raymond at the Guildhall. It was an action by the indorsee of a bill of exchange against the acceptor who offered to prove by witnesses who were acquainted with the drawer's signature and who believed that the signature of the drawer appearing on the bill in suit was not genuine, that the bill really was a forgery. The Chief Justice refused to admit the testimony "from the danger to negotiable notes, and because a man might with design write contrary to his usual method." This indicates that …

Gratuitous Partial Assignment Of General Legacy

Michigan Law Review

A recent decision of the United States Circuit Court of Appeals is notable for its dogmatic pronouncements upon two highly important questions, neither of which is very clearly illuminated by the authorities. Moreover, the case commands interest because of the large amount of money at stake, the wealth and prominence of the litigants, and the exhaustive briefs submitted by eminent counsel.

Contracts-Risk Of Loss Between Vendor And Purchaser In Land Contract

Michigan Law Review

Plaintiff entered into a contract to sell his grocery business to the defendant for a specified amount, part payment to be by way of the conveyance of a house and lot owned by the defendant, the title to pass upon payment by the plaintiff of certain outstanding debts of the grocery business. Subsequent to the execution of the contract, but before conveyance of the house and lot and while the defendant was still in possession, the house was destroyed by fire and the plaintiff sues to have $2,500 substituted, that amount being the agreed valuation at which the property was …

Restraints On Alienation-Restrictive Covenants-Racial Discrimination

Michigan Law Review

Three cases decided in 1925 in three widely separated parts of the United States, namely, California, Michigan, and the District of Columbia, raise the question: How far may one give legal effect to his racial prejudices through the medium of covenants and conditions inserted in wills and inter vivos conveyances? An attempt was made in each of these cases to restrict the use or sale of the property involved to white persons or to deny it to colored persons. Two of the cases upheld the restriction; one declared it invalid.

Recent Important Decisions

Michigan Law Review

A collection of recent important court decisions.

Book Reviews

Michigan Law Review

A collection of book reviews by multiple authors.

Bar Bulletin

University of Missouri Bulletin Law Series

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Restrictions Contractuelles A L Lbech Individuelle De Travail Dans La Jurisprudence Anglaise, Ernst W. Puttkammer

Articles

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