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Notes On Recent Missouri Papers

University of Missouri Bulletin Law Series

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Masthead

University of Missouri Bulletin Law Series

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Declarations Of Trusts And The Statute Of Uses, James L. Parks

University of Missouri Bulletin Law Series

In Neal v. Bryant: plaintiff brought a statutory action to determine and quiet title to a parcel of land known as the "Leazenby land". Defendant claimed title as residuary devisee under the will of plaintiff's father, Joseph Bryant. Testator had executed the will under which defendant claimed on July 9, 1915, and had acquired title to the land in suit on January 25, 1916. When testator obtained the land, he did not go into possession himself, but put plaintiff in possession, telling plaintiff and other that the land was not his but plaintiff's. At all times thereafter plaintiff was possessed …

The Law School Curriculum As Seen By The Bench And Bar, Cuthbert W. Pound

West Virginia Law Review

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Ethics Of The Bar, Waitman T. Willey

West Virginia Law Review

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Trusts--Effect Of Statute Of Frauds, J. D. D.

West Virginia Law Review

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Legislation In Vague Or General Terms, Ralph W. Aigler

Michigan Law Review

For some reason, probably in part the increasing complexity of our life and relationships, but more largely, perhaps, the growing tendency to regulate everybody and everything by positive law, the courts have been called upon with increasing frequency to pass upon the effectiveness of statutes and ordinances phrased in indefinite terms. In a very interesting and valuable paper, Professor Freund has pointed out the weakness and strength, on the one hand, of legislation in general terms, and on the other hand, legislation in which the rule of conduct is attempted to be laid down with precision. His interest apparently lay …

Railway Valuation In Condemnation Proceedings--Relation To Rate Making

Michigan Law Review

ln England the reproduction cost of a railroad is disregarded in fixing the price which a government must pay on taking over the property. Grand Trunk Ry. v. The King [1923] A. C. 150, which affirmed the decision of two out of three arbitrators that the preferred and common stockholders should get nothing, inasmuch as the earning capacity of the railroad gave them no value, and the "reproduction" or "reconstruction'' or "replacement" value of the railroad was immaterial. Mr. Taft, now Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, was one of the arbitrators and dissented. The opinions …

Torts--Power Of A Minicipal Corporation To Sue For Libel

Michigan Law Review

Can a municipal corporation maintain an action for libel? The recent $10,000,000 libel suit instituted by the City of Chicago against the Chicago Tribune promises to become a leading case in the solution of this question. The declaration filed by the city alleged ownership of property used in city affairs and that the city purchased materials for the maintenance of such property largely upon credit. It charged that libellous statements were falsely and maliciously published by the Chicago Tribune to the effect that the city was bankrupt and could not pay its debts, with intent to destroy its credit and …

Book Reviews

Michigan Law Review

A collection of book reviews by multiple authors.

International Recognition And The National Courts

Michigan Law Review

The extending of international recognition to a new government or a new state is a political function which belongs exclusively to the political departments of government. It follows that whenever the question of recognition or not is really involved in litigation the court should inform itself as to the course pursued by the appropriate political department and decide accordingly. This much, if it ever needed to be settled, may now be regarded as settled beyond peradventure. See 18 MICH. L. REV. 531.

Iiid_Box07-Folder09 - League Of Nations - Rules Of Procedure Of The Assembly, 1923

Series III: Legal files; Subseries D: Six Nations of the Grand River, 1920-1929 - Appeal to the League of Nations

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Foreign Marriages And The Conflict Of Laws, Herbert F. Goodrich

Michigan Law Review

It is common these days to speak of marriage as a contract. Not only do we use the term "marriage contract" as meaning a promise to marry in the future, but also to describe the contract or expression of consent by which the parties take each other for husband and wife. The statutes of many of our states declare marriage to be a "civil contract." A moment's thought will show great differences between marriage and the ordinary civil contract. A marriage contract can be contracted only between a man and a woman; it has no validity if one of the …

A Critique Of Methods For Alteration Of Women's Legal Status, Gladys Wells

Michigan Law Review

A case was appealed because all women electors were excluded from the jury. Held, the Nineteenth federal Amendment merely prohibits discrimination, leaving the states to confer the right of suffrage. Moreover, jury service is distinct therefrom; and the state constitution excludes women by providing for juries of twelve "men." If being an elector ipso facto entitled to jury service, the legislature could prescribe no other limitation. No question of violation of the Fourteenth Amendment can be raised since the accused does not belong to the excluded class.

Venue--Jurisdiction In Criminal Cases

Michigan Law Review

In a recent case in Oklahoma the defendant was prosecuted for bigamy, under a statute which read as follows: "It shall be unlawful for either party to such divorce to remarry any other person within six months from the degree of divorcement. * * * Any person marrying contrary: to the provisions of this statute shall be deemed guilty of bigamy, and such marriage shall be absolutely void." The defendant remarried in another state and returned to Live in Oklahoma. The court held that it had no jurisdiction. Jennings v. State, 17 Okla. Cr. R. 698.

Subrogation--A Chapter In Modern Legal History

Michigan Law Review

The equitable doctrine of subrogation, perhaps over-refined in some of its applications, is inherently sound and in its application between principal and surety deserves thorough development. The principal should of course pay in the first instance, in exoneration of the surety. If the surety is compelled to pay, subrogation but serves to work out the same result as if the principal had paid. The course of the decisions never has run smooth, but in 1805 Sir William Grant was justified in saying that "the surety had precisely the same right that the creditor had; and was to stand in his …

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.

Masthead

University of Missouri Bulletin Law Series

No abstract provided.

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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Constitutional Law--Executive Pardons In The Courts

Michigan Law Review

An interesting conflict between American political theories and early English precedents arose in a recent case involving the jurisdiction of a court of equity to set aside a pardon procured through fraud and deception upon the pardoning power. At the common law any suppression of the truth or suggestion of falsehood in procuring a pardon was held to vitiate it. HAWKINS, B. 2, ch. 37, § 8; 4 BLACK. COMM. 398, 400. The statute of 27 EDW. III, c. 2, provided that where a pardon was granted at any man's suggestion, the fact of such suggestion and the name of …

The Social Interest In The Aesthetic And The Socialization Of The Law, T. P. H.

West Virginia Law Review

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Fraudulent Bills Of Lading, Merton L. Ferson

Michigan Law Review

Station agents, without receiving goods, have frequently signed bills of lading purporting to bind their company. When a bill of lading thus issued has been transferred to an innocent purchaser for value, the question arises whether such person may recover against the carrier company. The question is obviously one of the .agent's ability to bind his employer.

Search And Seizure--Reasonableness

Michigan Law Review

Prohibition has rendered more than ever acute the problem of law .enforcement. Search for and seizure of contraband liquor as forfeited to the state is a very essential part of enforcement, and there is immediately raised the question: What constitutes a legal search and seizure?

The recent decision of the Michigan Supreme Court in People v. Case (Mich., 1922), 190 N. W. 289, may well serve as a starting point. There, officers without permission and without warrant entered defendant's automobile truck as it stood upon a public fair-ground, searched and found liquor therein, and arrested defendant when he appeared and …

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.

The School Of Law (Academic Year 1922-1923), College Of William & Mary

Course Information

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Fundamental Tendencies In Modern Jurisprudence, Rudolf Stammler

Michigan Law Review

The reception of Roman law presented new problems to jurisprudence.

At the end of the fifteenth century the reception of Roman law and canon law, together with the Lombard feudal law, was complete throughout the entire continent of Europe.

As a matter of fact, Roman law had come northward in the East from Constantinople at the same time that it was coming into Germany from the South and West; but that is for our question of no particular importance. The chief point is that everywhere there was the need of becoming familiar with this foreign law, so far as that …

University Of Michigan Law School Annual Announcement 1923-1924 And Catalogue Of Students 1922-1923, 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 a Degree; 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 in Jurisprudence by Sir Paul Vinogradoff, F.B.A., Corpus Professor of Jurisprudence in the University of Oxford; Additional Special Courses; Fourth Year Course; The Practice Court; Public Speaking; Oratorical Associations; Fees and Expenses; Michigan Law Review; The Howard B. Coblentz Prize; Order of the Coif; University Health Service; The Michigan Union; Summer Session; …