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Error Without Prejudice

Michigan Law Review

An examination of almost any of our reports of decisions now current, will impress one with the great number of cases reported in which the courts discuss the matter of reversal for error as affected by the question of whether prejudice results from such error.

Editorial Board/Editorial Notes, North Carolina Law Review

North Carolina Law Review

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The Occupation Of Michigan, Elbridge Colby

Michigan Law Review

The British military occupation of Michigan during the war of 1812 had no real military importance. The events leading up to it were then discussed, and have since been, more as a matter of the propriety or impropriety of the conduct of General Hull and the ineffectiveness of our national military organization for war. From the standpoint of politics the incident is of slight significance. But from the standpoint of the history of belligerent occupations and military government it illustrates and touches upon several distinctly legal points.

The Assignability Of Easements In Gross In American Law, Lewis Mallalieu Simes

Michigan Law Review

In an admirable comment in the Yale Law Journal for June, 1923, signed W. R. V., it was proposed to explain the American cases on the assignability of easements in gross on the ground that those easements which are admeasurable are assignable; while others are not. This explanation is said to be derived from the law of profits. From that view of the American cases the writer respectfully dissents, and desires to show in this article that no good reason exists why easements in gross should not be held to be assignable.

Arrest Without A Warrant, Horace L. Wilgus

Michigan Law Review

The word arrest comes from the Latin through the French, and literally means to stop, stay or restrain. In law it relates to restraints upon a person's liberty of locomotion, movement from place to place. To require one to keep her mouth shut is not an arrest, even if wrongful. Every detention or "confinement of the person is an imprisonment, whether it be in a common prison, or private house, or in the stocks," or in the open street or elsewhere. Where codes define false imprisonment "as the unlawful violation of the personal liberty of another," the gist of the …

Recent Important Decisions

Michigan Law Review

A collection of recent important court decisions.

The School Of Jurisprudence (Academic Year 1924-1925), College Of William & Mary

Course Information

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Commercial Instruments, The Law Merchant And Negotiability, Ralph W. Aigler

Articles

“Until recently apparently no serious attempt had been to make a comprehensive examination into the origins and history of commercial instruments or to explain the special doctrines attached to negotiability….

“The bill of exchange, it is said, developed as a bit of machinery to give effect to the medieval contract of cambium which was concerned with the special case of the exchange of money for money. With the growth of foreign trade the difficulties and dangers of payments multiplied. Naturally those whose business it was to exchange monies were resorted to in this connection. They, in turn, out of necessities …

Origin Of Two Fundamental Factors Of The American Constitution, Israel H. Peres

Tennessee Law Review

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Editorial Section - Case Notes

Tennessee Law Review

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Remote Contributory Negligence, Malcolm Mcdermott

Tennessee Law Review

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Revival Of Moot Courts At Michigan, Herbert F. Goodrich

Articles

"Clubs formed for the purposes of argument of moot cases exist in varying numbers at several of the best law schools in the country. From the students of the Law School at Michigan has come a movement for the establishment of such clubs here...."

What The American Law Institute Means To The Law School, Herbert F. Goodrich

Articles

"While in no sense a law school affair, the American Law Institute is so intimately connected with the progress of the law and legal education that it justifies mention here. The Institute was organized at a meeting of judges, lawyers and law teachers, held in Washington in February, 1923.... The Law School of the University of Michigan is and will continue to be intimately connected with this movement for the improvement of the law...."

The Operation Of The Recording Acts, Ralph W. Aigler

Michigan Law Review

As between successive transfers of land by the same transferor purporting to create legal interests it was the almost invariable rule of the common law that priority in right was determined by priority in time. This followed naturally from the fact that after A had conveyed to B there was no interest left in A which he could transfer to C; first in time was first in right because there was nothing left for the second transferee. Notice and lack of notice were wholly immaterial.

Interest And Duty In Relation To Qualified Privilege, Harold A. Jones

Michigan Law Review

From the standpoint of the civil law of defamation it is perfectly. permissible to say what one pleases of a man when the subject of the charge is the only person present. To make the same communication to others, however, may be to invite a lawsuit; and the difference between idle gossip and legitimate interest is often the determining factor in ascertaining liability. If Smith calls Brown a thief, they two being alone, Smith cannot be held liable. If Mrs. Smith is present, he may still be immune. If the statement is made in a lodge meeting, Smith still might …

Property Rights In Church Pews

Michigan Law Review

A recent Pennsylvania decision, Zernosky v. Kluchinsky (Pa. 1923) 122 Atl. 262, lays down the rule that where the trustees of a church rent a pew to a parishioner without the consent of the priest in charge, when such consent is required by the ecclesiastical law, the transaction is of no effect and the ecclesiastical law will be followed by the court. This is the general rule as applied to conditions attached to the renting of pews, Atty. Gen. v. Meetinghouse, 3 Gray (Mass.) 1; French v. The Old South Society, 100 Mass. 479, but the interesting point …

Book Reviews

Michigan Law Review

A collection of book reviews by multiple authors.

University Of Michigan Law School Annual Announcement 1924-1925 And Catalogue Of Students 1923-1924, University Of Michigan Law School

Law School Announcement and Bulletins

The Law School; Library; Summer Session; Directions to Candidates for Admission; Requirements for Admission; Admission as Candidates for Degrees; Changes in Requirements for Admission to Take Effect in 1926 and 1928; Admission of Special Students; Admission to Advanced Standing; Combined Curriculum in Letters and Law; Requirements for Graduation: Degrees; Regulations Applicable to All Degrees; The Law Curriculum; Special Courses; The Practice Court; Public Speaking; Oratorical Associations; Fees and Expenses; The Lawyers' Club; Michigan Law Review; The Howard B. Coblentz Prize; Class of 1908 Memorial Scholarship; Order of the Coif; University Health Service; The Michigan Union; Summer Session; Requirements for Admission; …

Notes, Harold R. Langer, Maxwell I. Hirsch, Sidney Kaden

Chicago-Kent Law Review

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The Machinery Of Procedural Reform, Edson R. Sunderland

Michigan Law Review

Much has been said and written about the imperfections of legal procedure. It is a subject of great interest and concern to the bar and to the public. Since rules of practice prescribe the conditions under which rules of law may be made operative, in so far as they fail of their purpose the law itself becomes ineffective. Lord Campbell is reported to have said that "The due distribution of justice depends more upon the rules by which suits are conducted than on the perfection of the code by which rights are defined."

Book Reviews

Michigan Law Review

A collection of book reviews by multiple authors.

Judicial Review Of The North Carolina Corporation Commission, Charles L. Nichols

North Carolina Law Review

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Editorial Board/Editorial Notes, North Carolina Law Review

North Carolina Law Review

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Comments, North Carolina Law Review

North Carolina Law Review

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Humanitarian Intervention In International Law As Related To The Practice Of The United States, Malbone W. Graham

Michigan Law Review

One of the outstanding results of the Great War, as regards international law, has been the tendency to question the bases of that law and to subject almost every portion of it to a minute examination, to determine its adequacy in governing effectively the relations of states to each other. This wholesale questioning has not confined itself merely to the laws of war and of neutrality-open as most of them may be to objection as a result of the practices in the course of the war-but also to the international law of peace, as regards the doctrine of the equality …

Aliens-Right To Own Or Lease Land-Effect Of "Equal Protection" Clause

Michigan Law Review

Right of alien residents under the "equal protection" clause of- the federal Constitution received further delimitation in the Alien Land Law Cases, decisions handed down last November. Terrace v. Thompson (U. S. 1923), Adv. Ops. 35, and Porterfield v. Webb, Adv. Ops. 42. In the former case the court was concerned with a Washington statute passed to enforce a provision in the Washington constitution that forbade the ownership of land by any aliens other than those who had in good faith declared their intention to become citizens. The California statute in the second case differed chiefly in limiting its …

Recognition Of Foreign Decree Annulling Marriage

Michigan Law Review

Decisions considering the question of jurisdiction to annul a marriage or the recognition to be afforded to a decree of annulment rendered by a But upon questions in the law of divorce authorities are legion. American lawyers naturally tum to divorce as the means of securing relief for clients from distasteful or unbearable marital difficulties. But annulment cases are increasing in number, and the increase in some states may be expected to continue. In Di Lorenzo v. Di Lorenzo, 174 N. Y. 467, the court of appeals said that every misrepresentation of a material fact, made with the intention …

Masthead

University of Missouri Bulletin Law Series

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Notes On Recent Missouri Cases

University of Missouri Bulletin Law Series

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Bar Bulletin

University of Missouri Bulletin Law Series

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