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The Nature Of Law, Hugh Evander Willis

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The Right Of Bailees To Contract Against Liability For Negligence, Hugh Evander Willis

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Front Matter

Michigan Law Review

Front Matter for the Michigan Law Review Vol 5 (1906-1907)

James Valentine Campbell, Charles A. Kent

Michigan Law Review

The Campbell ancestors of Judge Campbell were, as the name shows, Scotch. The earliest one in this country, his grandfather, was Thomas Campbell, an officer in an Highland Regiment, who settled on the Hudson. His son, Henry M. Campbell, was born in Ulster County, New York, September 10th, 1783. In early manhood he removed to Buffalo. When the War of 1812 broke out, he joined the American army, and was made Captain of an artillery company. In October, 1812, he married Lois Bushnell, a member of a New England family. Her nephew, the Reverend Horace Bushnell, became a very distinguished …

Revision Of The Laws Of The United States, Everett P. Wheeler

Michigan Law Review

June 22, 1874, President Grant put his signature to a great quarto volume which we know as the United States Revised Statutes. This has since been amended, and many additions have been made to the general laws of the United States which have not been incorporated in the Revised Statutes. These are scattered through the Statutes at Large, mingled with many temporary provisions. To convert this chaos into order, Congress in 1897 created a Commission to revise the Criminal and Penal Laws of the United States. In 1899 the duties of this Commission were extended to a revision of the …

Recent Legal Literature, Jerome C. Knowlton, Horace Lafayette Wilgus, Henry M. Bates, Robert E. Bunker

Michigan Law Review

Anson: Principles of the English Law of Contract; Heseltine: A Digest of the Law of Trade-Marks and Unfair Trade; Abbott: A Treatise on the Law of Municipal Corporations; Alderson: A Practical Treatise on the Law of Receivers as applicable to Individuals, Partnerships and Corporations, with extended consideration of receivers of railways and in proceedings in bankruptcy

Hearings Before The (Joint) Committees On Patents, December 7-11, 1906, United States Congress

Legislative History – Copyright Act of 1909

Text of S. 6330 and H.R. 19853

Page 116-7

STATEMENT OF MR. SAMUEL L. CLEMENS:

Necessarily I am interested particularly and especially in the part of the bill which concerns my trade. I like that bill, and I like that extension from the present limit of copyright life of forty-two years to the author's life and fifty years after. I think that will satisfy any reasonable author, because it will take care of his children. … I should like to have you encourage oyster culture and anything else. I have no illiberal feeling toward the bill. I like it. I …

Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

Bankruptcy--Action by Trustee--Right of Set-Off; Bills and Notes--forged Check--Payment--Recovery Back; Boundaries--Artificial Bodies of Water; Carriers--who are Passengers--Fraud in Securing Carriage; Corporations--Exclusive Privileges--Statutory Construction; Corporations--Penal Offense--Construction of Statute; Costs--change of Venue--Liability of County; Criminal law--Proximate Cause--Deposit of Obscene Matter in the Mail; Damages--Status of Dead Bodies--Mutilation--Mental Suffering; Easements--Adverse Possession--Color of Title; Eminent Domain--Telephone Poles in Highway--No Additional Burden; Equity--Injunction Against Prosecution; Evidence--Aliens--Burden of Proof in Deportation Proceedings; False Imprisonment--Joinder of Causes of Action; Garnishment--Liability of Executor; Homestead--alienation by Widow--Abandonment--Limitation of Actions; Insurance--Interest of Owner in Property--Sole and Unconditional Owner; Insurance--Sale of One Company to Another--rights of Policy-Holders and Agents of the …

Recent Legal Literature, Edwin C. Goddard, Edwin C. Goddard, Edwin C. Goddard, Joseph H. Drake, Joseph H. Drake, Victor H. Lane, Victor H. Lane, Edson R. Sunderland

Michigan Law Review

Beale: The Law of Innkeepers and Hotels, including other Public Houses, Theatres, Sleeping Cars; Beale: The Law of Railroad Rate Regulation, with special reference to American Legislation; Moore: A Treatise on the Law of Carriers; Bernard: The First Year of Roman Law; Holland: The Elements of Jurisprudence; Wilcox: Foibles of the Bench; Wigmore (ed.): A Selection of Cases on Evidence for the Use of Students of Law; Fairlie: Local Government in Counties, Towns and Villages; Hirschl: Trial Tactics. A Treatment of the Methods of Conducting Litigation

Function Of The State University Law School, Andrew Alexander Bruce

Michigan Law Review

It is only where there is law that there is liberty, and where there is law there must be lawyers. In the countries where the lawyers are the fewest liberty is at the lowest ebb, an the dignity of the individual least regarded. Even if the modern industrial system should undergo a change, and the dream of the socialist were to be fulfilled, there would still be a demand for the legal arbiter, interpreter and counsellor, for socialism in its last analysis is merely a system under which human conduct and activity is everywhere sought to be controlled and regulated …

Amenability Of Military Persons To The Laws Of The Land, Charles E. Smoyter

Michigan Law Review

I. To. United States Courts. 2. To State Courts. 3. To Military Courts. General Principles of Amenability-Courts and text writers not unfrequently enunciate as a general principle that military authority is subordinate to civil law. Accepted literally, the broad statement can be sustained by neither law nor precedent. The federal constitution provides for three kinds of military jurisdiction: (a) That known as Military Law, designed to be exercised both in time of peace and war and acquiring its authenticity from the acts of Congress prescribing army regulations and the rules and articles of war, as well as from the established …

Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

Bankruptcy--"Mining" includes Quarrying; Bankruptcy--Persons Entitled to Oppose Discharge; Banks and Banking--Right of Drawer of Check to Stop its Payment; Bills and Notes--Trustees for Benefit of Creditors as Holders in Due course--Pre-Existing Debt Constitutes Value; Building Contracts--Provisions for Extra Work--Powers of Architect; Common Carriers--Delay Co-Operating with Act of God; Contracts--When a Breach on the Part of One party to a Contract Entitles the Other to Rescind; Criminal Law--Former Jeopardy; Damages--Recovery for Gratuitous Services; Deeds--Estate Granted--Conflict Between the Habendum and the Granting Clauses; Equity--Wills--Precatory Trust; Foreign Corporations--Statute Revoking License on Removal of a Cause to Federal Court; Husband and Wife--Purchase by Wife …

Hearings Before The (Joint) Committees On Patents, June 6-9, 1906, United States Congress

Legislative History – Copyright Act of 1909

S. 6330 Proposed Text

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the copyright secured by this Act shall include the sole and exclusive right:

(a) For the purposes set forth in subsection (b) hereof, to make.any copy of any work or part thereof the subject of copyright under the provisions of this Act, or to abridge, adapt, or translate into another language or dialect any such work, or make any other version thereof;

(b) To sell, distribute, exhibit, or let for hire, or offer or keep for …

Note And Comment, Joseph H. Drake, Edson R. Sunderland, Edson R. Sunderland, Reuben H. Hunt, L. L. D.

Michigan Law Review

The Federal Courts and Local Law in Porto Rico; The Investigation of Corporate Monopolies; Compelling the Production of Corporation Books and Papers; Goods Damages by Act of God Because of a Carrier's Negligent Delay; The Effect of Dogmatic Changes Upon the Legal Status of a Church; Bays and Gulfs as Territory of the Adjoining Nation;

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 …

Is One Claiming Title Under A Quitclaim Deed A Bona Fide Purchaser, L. W. Carr

Michigan Law Review

In considering this question two primary considerations are presented at the outset, (I) what is meant by a quitclaim deed, and (2) what constitutes a bona fide purchaser. The quitclaim, as used in the law of conveyancing in the United States, is ordinarily treated as analogous to the old English deed of release, but the latter could operate only when the vendee was already the owner of an estate in the land, while the former is recognized as an original conveyance. The usual operative words are "remise, release, and forever quit claim." Frequently a covenant against incumbrances by the grantor …

Recent Legal Literature, Henry C. Adams, G. E. Woodard, Horace Lafayette Wilgus, Joseph H. Drake

Michigan Law Review

Parsons: The Heart of the Railroad Problem. The History of Railroad Discrimination in the United States. The Chief Efforts at Control and the Remedies Proposed, with Hints from Other Countries; Williston: Wald's Pollock on Contracts (3rd ed.); Erwin: A Summary of Torts; Pingrey: A Treatise on the Law of Extraordinary, Industrial and Interstate Contracts; Leage: Roman Private Law. Founded on the "Institutes" of Gaius and Justinian; Girard: A Short History of Roman Law; Longsdorf (ed.): Current Law, a complete Encyclopedia of New Law